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1028701

registered interest
date	20/12/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Social Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment he has made of the sustainability of local authority children’s services budgets.
tabling member constituency	St Ives
tabling member printed	Derek Thomas
uin	203970
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2019 answer text <p>Funding for children’s services is made available through the Local Government Finance Settlement. The department is in the final year of a multi-year settlement deal worth over £200 billion in the five years to 2020.</p><p>At the Autumn Budget 2018, the government made £410 million available to local authorities, in 2019/20, for adult and children social care. The government also announced £84 million in targeted, evidence-based interventions which will transform services to reduce demand, saving money for local authorities but most importantly, improving the quality of services for our most vulnerable children.</p><p>The government will continue to work closely with the sector to consider long-term children’s services funding as part of the upcoming 2019 Spending Review.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 08/01/2019 17:28:50 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4532 label Biography information for Derek Thomas

1029355

registered interest
date	20/12/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Special Educational Needs: Derbyshire
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many school children on Education, Health and Care Plans in Derbyshire do not have extra funding allocated to their schools for their plan.
tabling member constituency	Chesterfield
tabling member printed	Toby Perkins
uin	204475
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/01/2019 answer text <p>The information requested is not held by the department. Local authorities must secure the provision specified in a child or young person’s Education, Health and Care (EHC) plan. Where this requires the local authority to provide additional ‘top-up’ funding, an agreement should be in place between the local authority and the institution that confirms the amount of top-up funding to be paid. This agreement does not form part of the EHC plan.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 07/01/2019 14:44:52 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	3952 label Biography information for Mr Toby Perkins

1029357

registered interest
date	20/12/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Special Educational Needs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many school children (a) are there and (b) have an Education, Health and Care Plan in each local authority area.
tabling member constituency	Chesterfield
tabling member printed	Toby Perkins
uin	204477
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/01/2019 answer text <p>The number of school children and the number with an Education, Health and Care Plan are published at local authority level in the statistics publication Special Educational Needs in England: January 2018 in table 12. The publication can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/special-educational-needs-in-england-january-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/special-educational-needs-in-england-january-2018</a>.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 07/01/2019 14:46:15 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	3952 label Biography information for Mr Toby Perkins

1029361

registered interest
date	20/12/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Educational Psychology
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many educational psychological assessments have been carried out in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	South Shields
tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
uin	204513
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/01/2019 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally. The department does not collect data on the number of educational psychologist assessments carried out each year.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 07/01/2019 14:47:03 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

1029400

registered interest
date	20/12/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Foster Care: Care Leavers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many people over the age of 18 have used the Staying Put arrangements to stay with foster parents in Gloucestershire since 2014; and how many time was such a person not granted continuity of care.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	204375
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/01/2019 answer text <p>The Children and Families Act (2014) introduced a new duty on local authorities in England to advise, assist and support fostered young people to stay with their foster families when they reach 18, if both parties agree. This allow the young person to transition to adulthood when they wish and from the security and stability of an established family base. As with other young people, some care leavers will choose to live independently at age 18; others will choose to live in a staying put arrangement for a short period whilst they complete their education; some will want and need ongoing support within a staying put arrangement until they reach their 21<sup>st</sup> birthday.</p><p>Information on the number of children in Gloucestershire who ceased to be looked after in a foster placement on their 18th birthday who were eligible for care leaver support and were still living with their former foster carer (“staying put”) at age 18 or age 19 to 20 are shown in the attached tables.</p><p>In the table, figures on the number of 18 year old care leavers are presented in a separate tab to figures on 19 and 20 year olds. They were only collected for the first time on an individual level basis in 2016 and are still classed as experimental statistics.</p><p>Information on the number of times a child looked after is not granted continuity of care is not held centrally.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 07/01/2019 15:02:05 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi attachment 1 file name 204375_Care_leavers_Gloucestershire_after_18th_birthday_remaining__with_foster_carers.xls title 204375_Care_leavers_remaining_with_carers
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

1028476

registered interest
date	19/12/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Religion
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will take steps to ensure that all state-funded schools provide pupils with the opportunity to develop specific and age-appropriate knowledge and understanding of religions as part of promoting mutual respect and tolerance of people with different faiths and beliefs.
tabling member constituency	Hazel Grove
tabling member printed	Mr William Wragg
uin	203925
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/01/2019 answer text <p>All schools are required to promote fundamental British values including democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty and mutual respect for and tolerance of those with different faiths and beliefs and for those without faith, and this is inspected by Ofsted. The Department has issued guidance on how schools can promote fundamental British values as part of their requirement to teach spiritual, moral, social and cultural development. This guidance sets out that schools should enable students to acquire an appreciation of and respect for their own and other cultures. For many schools, religious education is likely to form part of their approach to promoting these values.</p><p> </p><p>Religious education (RE) is compulsory at all key stages in all state-funded schools to age 18. Therefore schools should already be providing an age-appropriate RE curriculum.</p><p> </p><p>Although the Department does not routinely monitor schools to ensure that they meet their statutory duties, my right Hon. Friend, the Secretary of State has a range of powers to ensure that schools comply where he investigates complaints and finds that they have not done so.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 07/01/2019 13:20:07 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4429 label Biography information for Mr William Wragg

1028481

registered interest
date	19/12/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Fires
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 November 2018 to Question 183860 on High Rise Flats: Fire Prevention, and reports of high concentrations of toxins in the soil around Grenfell Tower, what assessment the Government has made about the safety of school sites where there have been fires.
tabling member constituency	Hammersmith
tabling member printed	Andy Slaughter
uin	203823
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2019 answer text <p>The Government takes the safety of children and staff in schools very seriously. In the unfortunate event that a school has suffered damage as a result of a fire and requires rebuilding, soil contamination surveys would be expected to be undertaken as part of the feasibility study for the replacement buildings.</p><p> </p><p>Schools also have responsibilities under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order (2005) to have fire safety management plans in place. These should include risk assessments, which must be updated following any fire incident or any significant change to buildings or operations.</p><p> </p><p>More specifically, in relation to Grenfell, the Communities Secretary has set up a multi-agency expert group which includes the Environment Agency, Public Health England, the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and NHS England to make sure soil surveying around Grenfell Tower is comprehensive. The analysis from this survey work will be made available to the public.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 08/01/2019 17:59:45 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	1516 label Biography information for Andy Slaughter

1028494

registered interest
date	19/12/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Languages: Curriculum
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment has he made of the implications for the national curriculum of the findings of the British Council’s 2018 Language Trends Survey.
tabling member constituency	Hazel Grove
tabling member printed	Mr William Wragg
uin	203926
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2019 answer text <p>The Department has noted the British Council Language Trends 2018 Survey and the concerns it raises about participation in languages study. Through a number of initiatives, the Department is ensuring that all pupils have the opportunity to study a language.</p><p> </p><p>English Baccalaureate (EBacc) performance measures have been introduced to halt the decline in the number of pupils taking GCSEs in languages and the reformed national curriculum makes it compulsory for pupils in maintained schools to be taught a foreign language in Key Stage 2.</p><p> </p><p>The Department offers financial incentives for languages teaching, including scholarships in modern foreign languages (MFL) worth £28,000, and tax-free bursaries, typically worth up to £26,000, for trainees MFL initial teacher training.</p><p> </p><p>Schools are being supported to increase languages take up through the Mandarin Excellence Programme and through a £4.8 million MFL pedagogy pilot programme which aims to improve uptake and attainment in languages at Key Stages 3 and 4, particularly for disadvantaged pupils.</p><p> </p><p>A pilot project for MFL undergraduate mentoring has been launched for secondary school pupils to increase take up in the subject, specifically targeting areas of high disadvantage to extend access to languages for all pupils.</p><p> </p><p>The Department has recently published a leaflet for parents, which explains why studying a language, as part of the EBacc, will provide their children with an insight into other cultures, opening the door to travel and employment opportunities. This publication can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/english-baccalaureate-ebacc" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/english-baccalaureate-ebacc</a>.</p><p> </p><p>Since 2010, the proportion of pupils taking a language GCSE has increased from 40 per cent to 46 per cent.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 08/01/2019 17:06:26 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4429 label Biography information for Mr William Wragg

1028518

registered interest
date	19/12/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Universities: Admissions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what information his Department holds on the number of students who have been granted a university place after obtaining three D grades or lower at A-level in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Southampton, Itchen
tabling member printed	Royston Smith
uin	203932
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/01/2019 answer text <p>The Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) publish data on the number of English 18 year-olds accepted into full-time higher education (HE) by A level points score.</p><p>The table below shows the number of 18 year-olds in England who held at least three A levels and were accepted into HE with A level points equivalent to DDD or below:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2016</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2017</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2018</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Acceptances</strong></p></td><td><p>6,605</p></td><td><p>7,095</p></td><td><p>7,505</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>These figures are not published at an institution level.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore grouped question UIN 203933 question first answered 09/01/2019 15:48:54 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	4478 label Biography information for Royston Smith

1028519

registered interest
date	19/12/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Universities: Admissions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what information his Department holds on the proportion of students granted a place at (a) Russell Group, (b) University Alliance, (c) Million Plus and (d) Guild HE universities having obtained three D grades or lower at A-level in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Southampton, Itchen
tabling member printed	Royston Smith
uin	203933
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/01/2019 answer text <p>The Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) publish data on the number of English 18 year-olds accepted into full-time higher education (HE) by A level points score.</p><p>The table below shows the number of 18 year-olds in England who held at least three A levels and were accepted into HE with A level points equivalent to DDD or below:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2016</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2017</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2018</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Acceptances</strong></p></td><td><p>6,605</p></td><td><p>7,095</p></td><td><p>7,505</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>These figures are not published at an institution level.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore grouped question UIN 203932 question first answered 09/01/2019 15:48:54 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	4478 label Biography information for Royston Smith