The Government is committed to providing a world class education system for all pupils so that they can achieve their full potential no matter where they live.<\/p>
The Department is taking a range of steps to support and deliver programmes designed to help disadvantaged pupils, including improving the quality of teaching and curriculum resources, strengthening the school system and providing targeted support where needed. Many of these programmes address the substantive points made in the All-Party Parliamentary Group\u2019s (APPG) report.<\/p>
The Government is providing around £300 million to enable 75 Local Authorities to open family hubs to improve vital services to give every child the best start in life and so that families can better access the support they need. This builds on the Government\u2019s previous funding of family hubs, which included a £12 million transformation fund to open family hubs in a further 13 Local Authorities in England, including York.<\/p>
To support the development of the youngest and most disadvantaged children, the Department is providing a package of training, qualifications, expert guidance and targeted support for the early years sector.<\/p>
The National Funding Formula (NFF) continues to distribute funding fairly, based on the needs of schools and their pupil cohorts. In 2023/24, a greater proportion of schools NFF funding was targeted towards deprived pupils than ever before at 9.8% (over £4 billion). This will help schools to close attainment gaps. In 2023/24, schools with the highest levels of deprivation have, on average, attracted the largest per pupil funding increases.<\/p>
On top of this core funding, the pupil premium, worth over £2.9 billion this year, continues to support schools to improve outcomes for disadvantaged pupils.<\/p>
Almost £5 billion has also been made available for education recovery programmes in early years, schools and colleges, especially focused on helping the most disadvantaged or vulnerable, wherever they live.<\/p>
The Department is providing funding to 55 Education Investment Areas (EIAs) where outcomes in literacy and numeracy are the poorest, including £86 million in trust capacity funding to help strong trusts to expand into areas most in need of improvement. 24 Priority Education Investment Areas (PEIAs), that have particularly low attainment and high rates of disadvantage, will receive more intensive support in addition to the significant help available to all EIAs.<\/p>
To facilitate cross Government working on the Levelling Up agenda, the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities leads a regular group including Ministers from all Departments, including from the Department for Education and HM Treasury. The group provides support, challenge and accountability to drive progress and identify opportunities for collaboration on the Levelling Up missions as well as wider issues.<\/p>
The Department also continues to work closely with Ministers and officials in the Department of Health and Social Care to collaborate on ways to improve data and information sharing. The Department has set out its plans in the \u2018Improving multi-agency information sharing\u2019 report to Parliament in July 2023 and is working across government to progress these.<\/p>"} , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/111", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Nick Gibb"} } , "answeringMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "Bognor Regis and Littlehampton"} , "answeringMemberPrinted" : {"_value" : "Nick Gibb"} , "dateOfAnswer" : {"_value" : "2023-09-26", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "groupedQuestionUIN" : [{"_value" : "198817"} , {"_value" : "198818"} ], "isMinisterialCorrection" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "questionFirstAnswered" : [{"_value" : "2023-09-26T15:42:17.407Z", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} ]} , "answeringDeptId" : {"_value" : "60"} , "answeringDeptShortName" : {"_value" : "Education"} , "answeringDeptSortName" : {"_value" : "Education"} , "date" : {"_value" : "2023-09-11", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "hansardHeading" : {"_value" : "Pupils: Disadvantaged"} , "houseId" : {"_value" : "1"} , "legislature" : [{"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/terms/25259", "prefLabel" : {"_value" : "House of Commons"} } ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the implications for her policies of the report entitled Addressing education and health inequity: perspectives from the North of England published by Child of the North All-Party Parliamentary Group on 11 September 2023.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4471", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Rachael Maskell"} } , "tablingMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "York Central"} , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Rachael Maskell"} ], "uin" : "198816"} , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1659677", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Department for Education"} ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1659677/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "
The Government is committed to providing a world class education system for all pupils so that they can achieve their full potential no matter where they live.<\/p>
The Department is taking a range of steps to support and deliver programmes designed to help disadvantaged pupils, including improving the quality of teaching and curriculum resources, strengthening the school system and providing targeted support where needed. Many of these programmes address the substantive points made in the All-Party Parliamentary Group\u2019s (APPG) report.<\/p>
The Government is providing around £300 million to enable 75 Local Authorities to open family hubs to improve vital services to give every child the best start in life and so that families can better access the support they need. This builds on the Government\u2019s previous funding of family hubs, which included a £12 million transformation fund to open family hubs in a further 13 Local Authorities in England, including York.<\/p>
To support the development of the youngest and most disadvantaged children, the Department is providing a package of training, qualifications, expert guidance and targeted support for the early years sector.<\/p>
The National Funding Formula (NFF) continues to distribute funding fairly, based on the needs of schools and their pupil cohorts. In 2023/24, a greater proportion of schools NFF funding was targeted towards deprived pupils than ever before at 9.8% (over £4 billion). This will help schools to close attainment gaps. In 2023/24, schools with the highest levels of deprivation have, on average, attracted the largest per pupil funding increases.<\/p>
On top of this core funding, the pupil premium, worth over £2.9 billion this year, continues to support schools to improve outcomes for disadvantaged pupils.<\/p>
Almost £5 billion has also been made available for education recovery programmes in early years, schools and colleges, especially focused on helping the most disadvantaged or vulnerable, wherever they live.<\/p>
The Department is providing funding to 55 Education Investment Areas (EIAs) where outcomes in literacy and numeracy are the poorest, including £86 million in trust capacity funding to help strong trusts to expand into areas most in need of improvement. 24 Priority Education Investment Areas (PEIAs), that have particularly low attainment and high rates of disadvantage, will receive more intensive support in addition to the significant help available to all EIAs.<\/p>
To facilitate cross Government working on the Levelling Up agenda, the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities leads a regular group including Ministers from all Departments, including from the Department for Education and HM Treasury. The group provides support, challenge and accountability to drive progress and identify opportunities for collaboration on the Levelling Up missions as well as wider issues.<\/p>
The Department also continues to work closely with Ministers and officials in the Department of Health and Social Care to collaborate on ways to improve data and information sharing. The Department has set out its plans in the \u2018Improving multi-agency information sharing\u2019 report to Parliament in July 2023 and is working across government to progress these.<\/p>"} , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/111", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Nick Gibb"} } , "answeringMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "Bognor Regis and Littlehampton"} , "answeringMemberPrinted" : {"_value" : "Nick Gibb"} , "dateOfAnswer" : {"_value" : "2023-09-26", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "groupedQuestionUIN" : [{"_value" : "198816"} , {"_value" : "198818"} ], "isMinisterialCorrection" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "questionFirstAnswered" : [{"_value" : "2023-09-26T15:42:17.457Z", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} ]} , "answeringDeptId" : {"_value" : "60"} , "answeringDeptShortName" : {"_value" : "Education"} , "answeringDeptSortName" : {"_value" : "Education"} , "date" : {"_value" : "2023-09-11", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "hansardHeading" : {"_value" : "Pupils: Disadvantaged"} , "houseId" : {"_value" : "1"} , "legislature" : [{"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/terms/25259", "prefLabel" : {"_value" : "House of Commons"} } ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will hold discussions with (a) the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and (b) the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the recommendations of the report entitled Addressing education and health inequity: perspectives from the North of England published by Child of the North All-Party Parliamentary Group on 11 September 2023.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4471", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Rachael Maskell"} } , "tablingMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "York Central"} , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Rachael Maskell"} ], "uin" : "198817"} , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1659678", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Department for Education"} ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1659678/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "
The Government is committed to providing a world class education system for all pupils so that they can achieve their full potential no matter where they live.<\/p>
The Department is taking a range of steps to support and deliver programmes designed to help disadvantaged pupils, including improving the quality of teaching and curriculum resources, strengthening the school system and providing targeted support where needed. Many of these programmes address the substantive points made in the All-Party Parliamentary Group\u2019s (APPG) report.<\/p>
The Government is providing around £300 million to enable 75 Local Authorities to open family hubs to improve vital services to give every child the best start in life and so that families can better access the support they need. This builds on the Government\u2019s previous funding of family hubs, which included a £12 million transformation fund to open family hubs in a further 13 Local Authorities in England, including York.<\/p>
To support the development of the youngest and most disadvantaged children, the Department is providing a package of training, qualifications, expert guidance and targeted support for the early years sector.<\/p>
The National Funding Formula (NFF) continues to distribute funding fairly, based on the needs of schools and their pupil cohorts. In 2023/24, a greater proportion of schools NFF funding was targeted towards deprived pupils than ever before at 9.8% (over £4 billion). This will help schools to close attainment gaps. In 2023/24, schools with the highest levels of deprivation have, on average, attracted the largest per pupil funding increases.<\/p>
On top of this core funding, the pupil premium, worth over £2.9 billion this year, continues to support schools to improve outcomes for disadvantaged pupils.<\/p>
Almost £5 billion has also been made available for education recovery programmes in early years, schools and colleges, especially focused on helping the most disadvantaged or vulnerable, wherever they live.<\/p>
The Department is providing funding to 55 Education Investment Areas (EIAs) where outcomes in literacy and numeracy are the poorest, including £86 million in trust capacity funding to help strong trusts to expand into areas most in need of improvement. 24 Priority Education Investment Areas (PEIAs), that have particularly low attainment and high rates of disadvantage, will receive more intensive support in addition to the significant help available to all EIAs.<\/p>
To facilitate cross Government working on the Levelling Up agenda, the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities leads a regular group including Ministers from all Departments, including from the Department for Education and HM Treasury. The group provides support, challenge and accountability to drive progress and identify opportunities for collaboration on the Levelling Up missions as well as wider issues.<\/p>
The Department also continues to work closely with Ministers and officials in the Department of Health and Social Care to collaborate on ways to improve data and information sharing. The Department has set out its plans in the \u2018Improving multi-agency information sharing\u2019 report to Parliament in July 2023 and is working across government to progress these.<\/p>"} , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/111", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Nick Gibb"} } , "answeringMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "Bognor Regis and Littlehampton"} , "answeringMemberPrinted" : {"_value" : "Nick Gibb"} , "dateOfAnswer" : {"_value" : "2023-09-26", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "groupedQuestionUIN" : [{"_value" : "198816"} , {"_value" : "198817"} ], "isMinisterialCorrection" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "questionFirstAnswered" : [{"_value" : "2023-09-26T15:42:17.5Z", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} ]} , "answeringDeptId" : {"_value" : "60"} , "answeringDeptShortName" : {"_value" : "Education"} , "answeringDeptSortName" : {"_value" : "Education"} , "date" : {"_value" : "2023-09-11", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "hansardHeading" : {"_value" : "Pupils: Disadvantaged"} , "houseId" : {"_value" : "1"} , "legislature" : [{"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/terms/25259", "prefLabel" : {"_value" : "House of Commons"} } ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the report entitled Addressing education and health inequity: perspectives from the North of England published by Child of the North All-Party Parliamentary Group on 11 September 2023, whether she will hold discussions with the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care on (a) data sharing between and (b) needs assessments undertaken by agencies with a responsibility for children.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4471", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Rachael Maskell"} } , "tablingMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "York Central"} , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Rachael Maskell"} ], "uin" : "198818"} , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1654759", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Department for Education"} ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1654759/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "
Raising attainment for all pupils, particularly the most disadvantaged, is a priority for the Government. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic the attainment gap index narrowed by 9% at secondary school level and by 13% at primary school level between 2011 and 2019.<\/p>
For over a decade, the Department has consistently taken a range of steps to give priority support and deliver programmes that help disadvantaged pupils, including improving the quality of teaching and curriculum resources, strengthening the school system, and providing targeted support where needed.<\/p>
As part of the nearly £5 billion recovery package over 4 million children and young people, many of whom are disadvantaged, have benefited from one to one and small group tutoring in schools and colleges.<\/p>
The pupil premium, worth over £2.9 billion this year, continues to support schools to improve outcomes for disadvantaged pupils.<\/p>
More widely, funding for Free School Meals ensures 2 million of the most disadvantaged children are receiving a healthy, nutritious meal. On top of almost 1.3 million further infants supported through the Universal Infant Free School Meals policy, over one third of all pupils receive a free meal in school.<\/p>
The Department\u2019s National School Breakfast Programme will support up to 2,700 schools in disadvantaged areas, and the Department is providing over £200 million this year for the Holiday Activities and Food programme to support disadvantaged pupils.<\/p>
Alongside this, the Department is channelling funding into 55 Education Investment Areas (EIAs) where outcomes in literacy and numeracy are the poorest, including £86 million in trust capacity funding to help strong trusts to expand into areas most in need of improvement. 24 Priority Education Investment Areas (PEIAs), which have particularly low attainment and high rates of disadvantage, will receive more intensive support in addition to the significant help available to all EIAs.<\/p>"} , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/111", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Nick Gibb"} } , "answeringMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "Bognor Regis and Littlehampton"} , "answeringMemberPrinted" : {"_value" : "Nick Gibb"} , "dateOfAnswer" : {"_value" : "2023-09-15", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "isMinisterialCorrection" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "questionFirstAnswered" : [{"_value" : "2023-09-15T17:22:49.29Z", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} ]} , "answeringDeptId" : {"_value" : "60"} , "answeringDeptShortName" : {"_value" : "Education"} , "answeringDeptSortName" : {"_value" : "Education"} , "date" : {"_value" : "2023-07-20", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "hansardHeading" : {"_value" : "Pupils: Disadvantaged"} , "houseId" : {"_value" : "1"} , "legislature" : [{"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/terms/25259", "prefLabel" : {"_value" : "House of Commons"} } ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to risk 2 on page 25 of her Department\u2019s annual report and accounts 2022-23, published on 18 July 2023, what steps her Department is taking to mitigate the potential risk of a widening in pupils\u2019 attainment gap as a result of a differential recovery from the pandemic.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4046", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Bridget Phillipson"} } , "tablingMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "Houghton and Sunderland South"} , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Bridget Phillipson"} ], "uin" : "195386"} , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1606317", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Department for Education"} ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1606317/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "
The Department is committed to closing the disadvantage gap. This Department\u2019s work for the ten years prior to the COVID-19 pandemic showed that progress can be made to narrow the gap, and that its policies and programmes were having an effect. The Department will continue to monitor progress and to deliver programmes designed to help disadvantaged pupils, for example through the Pupil Premium which was introduced in 2011 and is worth over £2.6 billion in the 2022/23 financial year.<\/p>"} , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/111", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Nick Gibb"} } , "answeringMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "Bognor Regis and Littlehampton"} , "answeringMemberPrinted" : {"_value" : "Nick Gibb"} , "dateOfAnswer" : {"_value" : "2023-03-30", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "isMinisterialCorrection" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "questionFirstAnswered" : [{"_value" : "2023-03-30T16:37:02.293Z", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} ]} , "answeringDeptId" : {"_value" : "60"} , "answeringDeptShortName" : {"_value" : "Education"} , "answeringDeptSortName" : {"_value" : "Education"} , "date" : {"_value" : "2023-03-22", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "hansardHeading" : {"_value" : "Pupils: Disadvantaged"} , "houseId" : {"_value" : "1"} , "legislature" : [{"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/terms/25259", "prefLabel" : {"_value" : "House of Commons"} } ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate her Department has made of when the attainment gap between disadvantaged pupils and their peers will close.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4653", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Stephen Morgan"} } , "tablingMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "Portsmouth South"} , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Stephen Morgan"} ], "uin" : "171518"} , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1566636", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Department for Education"} ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1566636/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "
Education is a devolved matter, and the response outlines the information for England only.<\/p>
The government is committed to improving outcomes for all pupils. This will be achieved through the actions set out in the Schools White Paper to realise our ambition for 90% of children to leave primary school having achieved the expected standard in Key Stage 2 reading, writing and maths, and that in secondary schools, the national GCSE average grade in both English language and in maths will increase from 4.5 in 2019 to 5, both by 2030.<\/p>
The Schools White Paper outlines further actions to support schools and pupils. This includes an ambitious and stretching curriculum and improving behaviour and attendance levels. To underpin these reforms, the department will continue to work with schools, trusts, local authorities, and dioceses to build a stronger, fairer school system.<\/p>
The Levelling Up White Paper, published in February 2022, also sets out a mission to raise attainment in 55 Education Investment Areas, with a particular focus on 24 Priority Education Investment Areas which have experienced sustained educational underperformance.<\/p>
The department knows that reforms we have overseen so far are delivering improvements. The proportion of schools now rated by Ofsted as Good or Outstanding has risen from 68% in 2010 to 88% in 2022.<\/p>
In the 2022 Autumn Statement, it was announced that the overall schools funding will increase by a further £2 billion in the 2023/24 financial year and another £2 billion in the 2024/25 financial year, over and above totals confirmed in the 2021 Autumn Budget and Spending Review.<\/p>
The department knows that disadvantaged children and those with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) are disproportionately represented in those cohorts not meeting expected standards. The Pupil Premium helps fund evidence-based, targeted interventions, as well as broader improvements that will benefit these pupils and help to raise their attainment. Additional support also includes the National Tutoring Programme, where funding has been allocated to schools based on rates of disadvantage. Over two million tuition courses have started since 2020, and six million courses will be delivered by 2024.<\/p>
The department is also reforming the SEND and Children\u2019s Social Care systems, spending £2.6 billion in high needs capital funding over the next three years to deliver new places and improve existing provision for children and young people with SEND, or those requiring alternative provision.<\/p>"} , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4703", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Baroness Barran"} } , "answeringMemberPrinted" : {"_value" : "Baroness Barran"} , "dateOfAnswer" : {"_value" : "2023-02-06", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "isMinisterialCorrection" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "questionFirstAnswered" : [{"_value" : "2023-02-06T17:32:19.897Z", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} ]} , "answeringDeptId" : {"_value" : "60"} , "answeringDeptShortName" : {"_value" : "Education"} , "answeringDeptSortName" : {"_value" : "Education"} , "date" : {"_value" : "2023-01-12", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "hansardHeading" : {"_value" : "Pupils: Disadvantaged"} , "houseId" : {"_value" : "2"} , "legislature" : [{"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/terms/25277", "prefLabel" : {"_value" : "House of Lords"} } ], "questionText" : "To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking, or plan to take, to combat educational underachievement; in particular, amongst groups of pupils within society with low academic attainment.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4970", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Lord Weir of Ballyholme"} } , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Lord Weir of Ballyholme"} ], "uin" : "HL4752"} , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1566647", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Department for Education"} ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1566647/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "
Education is a devolved matter, and the response outlines the information for England only.<\/p>
The great majority of school funding in England is allocated through the National Funding Formula (NFF).<\/p>
The NFF allocates 17.4% of all funding in 2022/23 through additional needs factors to target pupils most likely to fall behind and need extra support. Alongside the NFF, the Pupil Premium provides additional funding to help schools tackle educational underachievement by children from disadvantaged backgrounds. The total funding directed through the NFF\u2019s additional needs factors and through the Pupil Premium over the last five years is shown in the attached table.<\/p>
Within the figures attached, the low prior attainment factor (LPA) in the NFF specifically targets pupils who did not reach the expected standard at the previous stage. The table attached also shows the amount of funding provided to schools in England through the LPA factor in the schools NFF over the last five years.<\/p>
The department is also focusing on recovering from the disruption of the COVID-19 pandemic through an ambitious multi-year programme and has made available almost £5 billion for recovery since 2020.<\/p>
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<\/p>"} , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4703", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Baroness Barran"} } , "answeringMemberPrinted" : {"_value" : "Baroness Barran"} , "attachment" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1566647/answer/attachment/1", "fileName" : {"_value" : "HL4753 funding table.xlsx"} , "title" : "total_NFF_and_pupil_premium_funding"} , "dateOfAnswer" : {"_value" : "2023-01-31", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "isMinisterialCorrection" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "questionFirstAnswered" : [{"_value" : "2023-01-31T17:52:46.277Z", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} ]} , "answeringDeptId" : {"_value" : "60"} , "answeringDeptShortName" : {"_value" : "Education"} , "answeringDeptSortName" : {"_value" : "Education"} , "date" : {"_value" : "2023-01-12", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "hansardHeading" : {"_value" : "Pupils: Disadvantaged"} , "houseId" : {"_value" : "2"} , "legislature" : [{"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/terms/25277", "prefLabel" : {"_value" : "House of Lords"} } ], "questionText" : "To ask His Majesty's Government how much funding they have provided to target educational underachievement in each of the last five years.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4970", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Lord Weir of Ballyholme"} } , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Lord Weir of Ballyholme"} ], "uin" : "HL4753"} , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1564636", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Department for Education"} ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1564636/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "
Reforms to support schools and drive improved attainment were set out in the Schools White Paper.<\/p>
The Department is funding 55 Education Investment Areas (EIA), of which 24 are Priority Education Investment Areas (PEIA). In each of the 24 PEIAs, the Department will make further investment available in addition to the significant support available to all EIAs. PEIAs will receive a share of around £40 million of funding to address local needs, and priority access to a number of other programmes offered by the Department.<\/p>
This is in addition to the targeted support provided by the pupil premium to help schools raise the attainment of disadvantaged pupils. Since its introduction, total pupil premium funding has increased from £600 million in the 2011/12 financial year to over £2.6 billion in the 2022/23 financial year. Per pupil funding rates are increasing by 2.7% in 2022/23, to their highest ever levels in cash terms.<\/p>
The education of disadvantaged children has been particularly affected by the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Department is committed to helping these pupils to recover and help close the attainment gap. That is why recovery programmes are focused on those most in need.<\/p>
The Department is providing £1 billion to extend recovery premium funding over the 2022/23 and 2023/24 academic years. This will help schools deliver evidence based approaches to support disadvantaged pupils. It builds on the nearly £1 billion in flexible funding delivered to schools in the 2020/21 and 2021/22 academic years, through the catch up and recovery premia.<\/p>
The National Tutoring Programme (NTP) is helping pupils receive additional targeted support, including those who have been hit by disruption to their education as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Since the NTP began in November 2020, nearly 3 million courses have been started on the Programme.<\/p>
The 16-19 Tuition Fund offers courses to accelerate the progression of lower attaining students. Eligibility in the 2021/22 academic year was broadened to include economic disadvantage in addition to low prior attainment. For the 2022/23 academic year, the Department has broadened this eligibility further to allow more students to benefit from the funding.<\/p>"} , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/111", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Nick Gibb"} } , "answeringMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "Bognor Regis and Littlehampton"} , "answeringMemberPrinted" : {"_value" : "Nick Gibb"} , "dateOfAnswer" : {"_value" : "2023-01-16", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "isMinisterialCorrection" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "questionFirstAnswered" : [{"_value" : "2023-01-16T13:29:28.233Z", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} ]} , "answeringDeptId" : {"_value" : "60"} , "answeringDeptShortName" : {"_value" : "Education"} , "answeringDeptSortName" : {"_value" : "Education"} , "date" : {"_value" : "2023-01-06", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "hansardHeading" : {"_value" : "Pupils: Disadvantaged"} , "houseId" : {"_value" : "1"} , "legislature" : [{"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/terms/25259", "prefLabel" : {"_value" : "House of Commons"} } ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department plans to take to reduce the attainment gap for pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds at (a) Year 6, (b) GCSE and (c) A Level.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4653", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Stephen Morgan"} } , "tablingMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "Portsmouth South"} , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Stephen Morgan"} ], "uin" : "117956"} , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1552698", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Department for Education"} ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1552698/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "
The Department welcomes the Education Endowment Foundation\u2019s report and the contributions it has made to the Department\u2019s understanding of key issues around pupil wellbeing and attainment following the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>
Extended restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic meant that many children and young people missed out on large amounts of face to face education.<\/p>
Helping children recover from the consequences of the pandemic is a key priority. The Department has made almost £5 billion available for a comprehensive recovery package to support children and young people to make up for education lost during the pandemic.<\/p>
The Department is providing a package of training, qualifications, expert guidance, and targeted support for the early years sector to support child development and recovery from the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the youngest and most disadvantaged children.<\/p>
The Department has funded the Nuffield Early Language Intervention (NELI), which improves the language skills of Reception age children following the pandemic. The programme targets children needing extra support with their speech and language development, and is proven to help them make around three months of additional progress.<\/p>
In February 2021, the Department announced a £22 million Accelerator Fund, which aims to scale up and spread effective literacy and numeracy programmes to ensure pupils have the best chance of catching up following the pandemic. The Department announced a £66 million extension to the fund for another 3 years. This will continue to develop and scale up the best-evidenced literacy and numeracy interventions.<\/p>
In addition, the Department\u2019s ongoing investment in English and mathematics curriculum hub programmes will support children to benefit from high quality teaching in early reading and maths respectively, including through phonics and Teaching for Mastery interventions.<\/p>
This year, schools funding is £4 billion higher than last year and it will rise by another £3.5 billion, on top of that, next year. This is an increase of over 15% in two years. These increases will enable head teachers to continue to concentrate funding in the areas that positively impact educational attainment, including high quality teaching and targeted support to the children who need it most, including those who are disadvantaged.<\/p>
Schools continue to receive the pupil premium, worth over £2.6 billion this 2022/23 financial year, to enable them to provide extra support and improve education outcomes for disadvantaged pupils.<\/p>"} , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/111", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Nick Gibb"} } , "answeringMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "Bognor Regis and Littlehampton"} , "answeringMemberPrinted" : {"_value" : "Nick Gibb"} , "dateOfAnswer" : {"_value" : "2022-12-22", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "isMinisterialCorrection" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "questionFirstAnswered" : [{"_value" : "2022-12-22T15:56:40.657Z", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} ]} , "answeringDeptId" : {"_value" : "60"} , "answeringDeptShortName" : {"_value" : "Education"} , "answeringDeptSortName" : {"_value" : "Education"} , "date" : {"_value" : "2022-12-16", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "hansardHeading" : {"_value" : "Pupils: Disadvantaged"} , "houseId" : {"_value" : "1"} , "legislature" : [{"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/terms/25259", "prefLabel" : {"_value" : "House of Commons"} } ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of the findings in the Education Endowment Foundations report on the socio-economic attainment gap; and if she will make a statement.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4418", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Justin Madders"} } , "tablingMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "Ellesmere Port and Neston"} , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Justin Madders"} ], "uin" : "112111"} , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1536923", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Department for Education"} ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1536923/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "
The disadvantage gap index is designed as a national level indicator, and no regional breakdowns are produced or published.<\/p>
The provisional Key Stage 4 data release on 20 October 2022 contains regional level data for both disadvantaged and non-disadvantaged pupils, and this covers a number of headline measures, including Attainment 8 and the percentage of pupils achieving grades 9-5 in English and mathematics. This data shows the disadvantage gap at a regional level, but with a different methodology from the gap index. This can be found within the \u2018Key Stage 4 local authority characteristics data\u2019 downloadable file on the Key Stage 4 performance page, which can be accessed here: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/key-stage-4-performance-revised/2021-22<\/a>.<\/p>"} , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/111", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Nick Gibb"} } , "answeringMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "Bognor Regis and Littlehampton"} , "answeringMemberPrinted" : {"_value" : "Nick Gibb"} , "dateOfAnswer" : {"_value" : "2022-11-02", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "isMinisterialCorrection" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "questionFirstAnswered" : [{"_value" : "2022-11-02T16:51:57.323Z", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} ]} , "answeringDeptId" : {"_value" : "60"} , "answeringDeptShortName" : {"_value" : "Education"} , "answeringDeptSortName" : {"_value" : "Education"} , "date" : {"_value" : "2022-10-27", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "hansardHeading" : {"_value" : "Pupils: Disadvantaged"} , "houseId" : {"_value" : "1"} , "legislature" : [{"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/terms/25259", "prefLabel" : {"_value" : "House of Commons"} } ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will publish a regional breakdown of the disadvantage gap index published in the most recent provisional key stage 4 data release.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4667", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Mike Amesbury"} } , "tablingMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "Weaver Vale"} , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Mike Amesbury"} ], "uin" : "73128"} ], "itemsPerPage" : 10, "next" : "http://eldaddp.azurewebsites.net/answeredquestions.text?_page=1&min-ddpModified.=2019-09-05T14%3A46%3A14.848Z&hansardHeading=Pupils%3A+Disadvantaged", "page" : 0, "startIndex" : 1, "totalResults" : 37, "type" : ["http://purl.org/linked-data/api/vocab#ListEndpoint", "http://purl.org/linked-data/api/vocab#Page"]} }