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828840

	registered interest
	date	23/01/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Apprentices
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment his Department has made of the likelihood of achieving three million apprenticeship starts by 2020; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	East Ham
	tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
	uin	124463
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2018 answer text <p>We publish progress on the number of apprenticeships starts within the department’s further education and skills statistical first release, which can be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/further-education-and-skills-statistical-first-release-sfr#2017-releases" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/further-education-and-skills-statistical-first-release-sfr#2017-releases</a>. The latest release was published on 25 January 2018.</p><p>There have been over 1.2 million apprenticeship starts since May 2015 and we plan to achieve three million apprenticeship starts in England by 2020.</p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton question first answered 29/01/2018 17:41:26 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
	tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

834413

	registered interest
	date	31/01/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Apprentices
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 29 January 2018 to Question 124463, what plans he has to increase the rate of apprenticeship starts in order to meet the three million target by 2020.
	tabling member constituency	East Ham
	tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
	uin	126032
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2018 answer text <p>We are working with employers to offer more apprenticeship opportunities - helping them to plan their future programmes including through the account management of over 1,000 of the largest levy-paying employers. We have recently announced initial awards totalling around £485 million to hundreds of providers across the country to provide apprenticeship training to non-levy paying employers.</p><p> </p><p>We are using every opportunity to communicate the benefits of apprenticeships and encouraging the take up. A new phase of our communications campaign started on 26 January 2018, to encourage employers to offer apprenticeship opportunities and to promote these to potential apprentices. This will build on the National Apprenticeship Service’s ongoing engagement and communications activity to increase awareness and promote the benefits of apprenticeships among employers and learners.</p><p> </p><p>Apprenticeships are open to individuals and employers across the country, and we are investing in the whole of England by doubling funding for apprenticeships to £2.45 billion by 2019-20 – twice what was spent in 2010-11 – and giving employers more power than ever before to design apprenticeship training that meets their needs.</p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton question first answered 05/02/2018 17:07:42 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
	tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

751315

	registered interest
	date	12/07/2017
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Apprentices
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many Independent End Assessors have been trained and employed to conduct gateway to end-point assessments for the Trailblazer programme.
	tabling member constituency	East Ham
	tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
	uin	4761
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/07/2017 answer text <p>There are 76 apprentice assessment organisations. They are approved to deliver the end-point assessment for 124 apprenticeship standards.</p><p> </p><p>The register of apprentice assessment organisations is a list of organisations that have been assessed as being suitable to conduct independent end-point assessment of apprentices and are in receipt of public funds. Individual organisations may be listed for more than one standard. Only these organisations are eligible to conduct independent end-point assessment of apprentices.</p><p> </p><p>The register is regularly updated as more organisations successfully apply and can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/using-the-register-of-apprentice-assessment-organisations" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/using-the-register-of-apprentice-assessment-organisations</a>.</p><p> </p><p>Recruitment of assessors is an ongoing process, which we have been supporting through the Future Apprenticeships programme.</p><p> </p><p>The employer, in consultation with the training provider, must be satisfied that the apprentice is ready to be entered for end-point assessment.</p><p> </p><p>The apprentice assessment organisation does not have to provide specific premises to carry out the end-point assessment. The assessment could take place at the apprentice’s place of work or online in some instances.</p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton grouped question UIN 4762 question first answered 17/07/2017 16:31:01 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
	tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

751317

	registered interest
	date	12/07/2017
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Apprentices
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many end-point assessment centres there are to provide gateway to end-point assessments for the Trailblazer programme.
	tabling member constituency	East Ham
	tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
	uin	4762
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/07/2017 answer text <p>There are 76 apprentice assessment organisations. They are approved to deliver the end-point assessment for 124 apprenticeship standards.</p><p> </p><p>The register of apprentice assessment organisations is a list of organisations that have been assessed as being suitable to conduct independent end-point assessment of apprentices and are in receipt of public funds. Individual organisations may be listed for more than one standard. Only these organisations are eligible to conduct independent end-point assessment of apprentices.</p><p> </p><p>The register is regularly updated as more organisations successfully apply and can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/using-the-register-of-apprentice-assessment-organisations" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/using-the-register-of-apprentice-assessment-organisations</a>.</p><p> </p><p>Recruitment of assessors is an ongoing process, which we have been supporting through the Future Apprenticeships programme.</p><p> </p><p>The employer, in consultation with the training provider, must be satisfied that the apprentice is ready to be entered for end-point assessment.</p><p> </p><p>The apprentice assessment organisation does not have to provide specific premises to carry out the end-point assessment. The assessment could take place at the apprentice’s place of work or online in some instances.</p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton grouped question UIN 4761 question first answered 17/07/2017 16:31:02 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
	tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

752853

	registered interest
	date	17/07/2017
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Apprentices: Greater London
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of apprenticeship starts in (a) Greater London and (b) the London Borough of Newham are with (i) levy-paying and (ii) non-levy-paying businesses.
	tabling member constituency	East Ham
	tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
	uin	5418
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2017 answer text <p>The number of apprenticeship starts is published as part of the further education and skills statistical first release. Apprenticeship starts broken down by geographical region and local authority are available in the further education data library:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/624428/apprenticeships-geography-data-tool-starts-v1.xlsm" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/624428/apprenticeships-geography-data-tool-starts-v1.xlsm</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Currently, data on apprenticeship starts is only available reported to the end of April 2017, before the apprenticeship levy was implemented. The statistical first release will publish details of starts, where an apprenticeship service account holder has been able to use funds to support an apprenticeship, when data becomes available.</p><p> </p><p>Data on the number of accounts registered on the apprenticeship service and the number of commitments made have been published as experimental statistics. This is available as part of the statistical first release collection:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/further-education-and-skills-statistical-first-release-sfr" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/further-education-and-skills-statistical-first-release-sfr</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton question first answered 20/07/2017 16:51:03 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
	tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

845042

	registered interest
	date	20/02/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Education: Social Mobility
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to his Department’s paper, Unlocking Talent, Fulfilling Potential: a plan for improving social mobility through education, published in December 2017, what assessment he has made of the potential role for youth full-time social action in the proposed transition year.
	tabling member constituency	East Ham
	tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
	uin	128471
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2018 answer text <p>The government wants all young people who are able, to have the opportunity to achieve qualifications at level 3. Some school leavers are not yet ready for that step, and the department is developing a high quality offer for all young people including a transition offer for those who have the potential to study for a T level but who are not yet ready to do so.</p><p>The transition offer will be a flexible programme with a strong focus on mathematics and English and all suggestions are welcome for what could be included in the programme. The department has recently sought views through the public consultation on the implementation of T levels, including what other support should be considered as part of the programme, more details will be published in the spring.</p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton question first answered 23/02/2018 14:15:54 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
	tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

809030

	registered interest
	date	18/12/2017
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Cybersecurity: Training
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to ensure the continued provision of an adequacy of people with cyber security skills into the future.
	tabling member constituency	East Ham
	tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
	uin	120139
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2017 answer text <p>The government is investing £84 million of new funding over the next five years to improve the teaching of computing and drive up participation in computer science qualifications, particularly amongst girls. This will include increasing the expertise of up to 8,000 existing computer science teachers and a new National Centre for Computing Education. These changes build on the curriculum reforms made to primary and secondary education which include new challenging content such as coding, Boolean logic, and algorithms. Such reforms will provide students with the basic building blocks needed to go onto study cyber-security in further and higher education.</p><p> </p><p>For those wishing to follow a more technical route, we are creating new T levels for 16-18 year olds, and the government is currently considering options on how to incorporate cyber security within T-level routes. Employers are also designing new apprenticeship standards to replace apprenticeship frameworks putting industry at the heart of the skills system. A number of cyber related apprenticeship standards have already been approved for delivery. The government has introduced new innovative digital degree apprenticeships, which are employer accredited and have seen a growing number of employers and universities come together to create relevant, high quality curricula. In addition, we have supported the creation of Ada, the National College of Digital Skills, which will train up to 5,000 students within its first seven years for a wide range of digital careers.</p><p> </p><p>The department also works across government in helping deliver programmes to improve our national digital confidence, capability and capacity through the 2016-2021 National Cyber Security Strategy, which can be viewed here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/567242/national_cyber_security_strategy_2016.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/567242/national_cyber_security_strategy_2016.pdf</a>.</p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton question first answered 21/12/2017 17:39:18 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
	tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

830393

	registered interest
	date	25/01/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Training
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what his policy is on the devolution of skills to directly elected mayors and combined authorities.
	tabling member constituency	East Ham
	tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
	uin	124959
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2018 answer text <p>The department will devolve the adult education budget to Mayoral Combined Authorities and the Greater London Authority for 2019/20, subject to certain readiness conditions. We are working collaboratively with local areas to ensure people can gain the skills that meet both local and national needs and will be setting up Skills Advisory Panels to further inform local areas about the skills needs.</p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton question first answered 30/01/2018 17:42:37 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
	tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

828844

	registered interest
	date	23/01/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Training
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what his policy is on the devolution of powers on skills to elected mayors and combined authorities; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	East Ham
	tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
	uin	124467
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2018 answer text <p>The department is still intending to devolve the adult education budget to Mayoral Combined Authorities and the Greater London Authority for 2019/20, subject to certain readiness conditions. We are working collaboratively with local areas to ensure people can gain the skills that meet both local and national needs including setting up Skills Advisory Panels.</p><p> </p><p>The changes we made to apprenticeships put employers at the heart of driving up the skills of their workforce.</p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton question first answered 29/01/2018 17:05:20 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
	tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

837482

	registered interest
	date	05/02/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Apprentices: Expenditure
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 1 February 2018 to Question 125405, what his estimate is for spending on apprenticeships in the 2017-18 financial year.
	tabling member constituency	East Ham
	tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
	uin	126601
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2018 answer text <p>The department has made available £1.93 billion for apprenticeships in the 2017-18 financial year. We will publish our actual spending in the departmental annual report and accounts later this year.</p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton question first answered 08/02/2018 16:21:20 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
	tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms