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date	02/10/2023
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	National Insurance Contributions
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what estimates they have made, if any, of the cost savings that would result from increasing the minimum years of National Insurance contributions required for a full State Pension from 35 to 45.
tabling member printed	Baroness Altmann
uin	HL10441
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2023 answer text <p>No such assessment has been made. The number of Qualifying Years required for a full State Pension strikes a balance between achieving wide coverage, maintaining the contributory principle and ensuring the overall affordability of the State Pension.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Viscount Younger of Leckie question first answered 16/10/2023 16:45:14 answering member 4169 label Biography information for Viscount Younger of Leckie
tabling member	4533 label Biography information for Baroness Altmann

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date	17/11/2020
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Literacy
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the statement by the Prime Minister on 4 November (HC Deb, col 318), whether literacy is intended to be a part of the tutoring programme; and if so, (1) what plans they have to survey literacy levels across all age groups, (2) whether the tutoring will be available to all schools across England, and (3) what steps they are taking to ensure that adequate funding is available for that programme.
tabling member printed	Baroness Rebuck
uin	HL10441
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2020 answer text <p>We are providing £1 billion of catch-up support to schools to help make up for lost learning. All schools with pupils aged 5-16 are receiving their share of the £650 million catch-up premium, which can be used to prioritise support for all pupils. We are spending up to £350 million on the National Tutoring Programme (NTP). The NTP will provide additional, targeted support to disadvantaged children and young people in schools across England who need the most help to catch-up.</p><p>The NTP for 5-16 years olds went live on 2 November. The NTP offers tuition support for a range of curriculum subjects, including English, at both primary and secondary level. It is important that decisions about what support pupils receive are made locally by those who understand their needs. As such, teachers use their professional judgement to determine which pupils would most benefit from NTP support based on their need. Further information about the launch of the NTP is available here: <a href="https://nationaltutoring.org.uk/news/national-tutoring-programme-launches-in-schools" target="_blank">https://nationaltutoring.org.uk/news/national-tutoring-programme-launches-in-schools</a>.</p><p>Additionally, the NTP is supporting an oral language programme for reception-aged children. Any state-funded school with a reception class was able to register their interest in delivering the programme, with priority given to those schools with the highest levels of disadvantage (percentage of free school meals). Participating schools will begin delivery in January 2021. Further information about the oral language programme is available here: <a href="https://educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk/covid-19-resources/neli/" target="_blank">https://educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk/covid-19-resources/neli/</a>.</p><p>We are also making funding available to school sixth forms, colleges, and all other 16-19 providers to offer support small group tuition for lower attaining 16-19 year olds, in English, maths, and other courses where learning has been disrupted as a result of the COVID-19 outbreak. Further information about this is available here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/16-to-19-funding-16-to-19-tuition-fund" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/16-to-19-funding-16-to-19-tuition-fund</a>.</p> answering member printed Baroness Berridge question first answered 01/12/2020 11:57:42 answering member 4218 label Biography information for Baroness Berridge
tabling member	4332 label Biography information for Baroness Rebuck

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registered interest
date	01/10/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Intercountry Adoption
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Agnew of Oulton on 7 February (HL5080), which local authorities in England have given a clear commitment to amend the Schools Admission Code to give children adopted from overseas the same entitlement for priority school admission as those adopted from care in England, as set out in the letter from the Minister for School Standards; and in which local authorities this is now the practice.
tabling member printed	Lord Triesman
uin	HL10441
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/10/2018 answer text <p>In December of last year the department announced that when the opportunity arises, we intend to amend the School Admissions Code to require admission authorities to give children adopted from state care outside of England, highest priority for admission into school.</p><p> </p><p>Any changes to the School Admissions Code will require a full statutory process, including a public consultation and parliamentary scrutiny. They must be considered in the context of competing pressures on the parliamentary timetable.</p><p> </p><p>Until such time as we are able to make the relevant changes to the Code, we have asked admission authorities to use their current flexibilities in setting their own admission arrangements, to grant internationally adopted children second highest admissions priority in their oversubscription criteria.</p><p> </p><p>School admission arrangements are agreed locally and we do not collect information on them. Consequently, the information requested on which admission authorities have adopted these changes, is not held centrally and we have not made an assessment of the changes.</p> answering member printed Lord Agnew of Oulton grouped question UIN HL10442 HL10443 question first answered 12/10/2018 13:17:54 answering member 4689 label Biography information for Lord Agnew of Oulton
tabling member	3651 label Biography information for Lord Triesman