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date	14/06/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pupils: Refugees
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what language assistance he is providing to (a) schools and (b) colleges to assist them in serving the needs of (i) Afghan and (ii) Ukrainian children.
tabling member constituency	Darlington
tabling member printed	Peter Gibson
uin	18060
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/06/2022 answer text <p>Schools are responsible for ensuring that all of their pupils, including those who are classed as having a first language other than English, can access the full curriculum and have opportunity to achieve their potential.</p><p>Through the English as an additional language (EAL) factor in the national funding formula (NFF), schools are allocated funding for pupils who are classed as having EAL and who have started in the state-funded education system in England within the last three years. This equates to an additional £565 per primary school pupil and £1,530 per secondary school pupil in the 2022/23 financial year. The NFF will distribute a total of £410 million through the EAL factor in the current financial year. Schools have flexibility over how they use their overall funding budget to support their EAL pupils, as they are best placed to understand and respond to the particular needs of their pupils.</p><p>Ukrainians aged 16 to 19 living in the UK under the Ukraine Family Scheme, and the Ukraine Sponsorship Scheme (Homes for Ukraine) are eligible to enrol as a student in 16 to 19 education providers, although providers may ask to see evidence of their eligibility.</p><p>Afghans aged 16 to 19 recognised as having a legal right to reside in UK are immediately entitled to 16 to 19 funding and are therefore able to enrol at 16 to 19 education providers.</p><p>16 to 19 education providers include further education colleges, sixth form colleges and school sixth forms. 16 to 19 study programmes can include English for speakers of other languages (ESOL) courses or other English tuition, depending on the needs of the student.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Worcester answering member printed Mr Robin Walker question first answered 22/06/2022 10:09:59 answering member 4091 label Biography information for Mr Robin Walker
tabling member	4754 label Biography information for Peter Gibson

1470347

registered interest
date	14/06/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Class Sizes
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will make an estimate of the average class size in (a) primary and (b) secondary schools in (i) Coventry North East constituency, (ii) Coventry, (iii) the West Midlands and (iv) England in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Coventry North East
tabling member printed	Colleen Fletcher
uin	17957
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/06/2022 answer text <p>The department publishes annual figures on average class sizes in state-funded schools in England. The data is from the January school census and is published in ‘schools, pupils and their characteristics’ here: <a href="https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-pupils-and-their-characteristics" target="_blank">https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-pupils-and-their-characteristics</a>.</p><p>The attachment gives averages for primary and secondary class sizes for schools in Coventry North East from the 2017/18 academic year to the 2021/22 academic year. The department has calculated the figures from the published school level underlying data. The following link is for a table showing comparable figures for Coventry, the West Midlands and England over the same period: <a href="https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink/e65ecbc6-9bbd-419e-8641-0abc370c7508" target="_blank">https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink/e65ecbc6-9bbd-419e-8641-0abc370c7508</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Worcester answering member printed Mr Robin Walker question first answered 22/06/2022 10:17:55 answering member 4091 label Biography information for Mr Robin Walker attachment 1 file name 17957_average_class_size_from_Jan_2018_to_Jan_2022.pdf title 17957_class_size_2018_to_2022
tabling member	4378 label Biography information for Colleen Fletcher

1470348

registered interest
date	14/06/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pupils: Exercise and Sports
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will make an estimate of the average number of hours per week of (a) sport and (b) other physical activity that was undertaken by pupils in (i) primary and (ii) secondary schools in (A) Coventry North East constituency, (B) Coventry, (C) the West Midlands and (D) England in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Coventry North East
tabling member printed	Colleen Fletcher
uin	17958
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/06/2022 answer text <p>The government is committed to supporting children and young people to be active and achieve the 60 active minutes of activity recommended by the Chief Medical Officer. Sport England’s Active Lives Children and Young People Survey provides a comprehensive overview of activity levels in children across England aged 5 to 16, and years 1 to 11. This data can be accessed via the latest report, which focused on the 2020/21 academic year, and is available at: <a href="https://www.sportengland.org/know-your-audience/data/active-lives" target="_blank">https://www.sportengland.org/know-your-audience/data/active-lives</a>. The data can be broken down by local authority and region, but not by constituency, and includes data from the 2017/18, 2018/19, 2019/20 and 2020/21 academic years.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 22/06/2022 16:55:57 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4378 label Biography information for Colleen Fletcher

1469838

registered interest
date	13/06/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	PE and Sport Premium
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when he plans to announce future funding for the primary PE and sport premium; and what assessment he has made of the impact on (a) the efficacy of programmes for pupil health and wellbeing, (b) additional costs for participant schools and (c) staff job security of announcing the level of PE and sport premium funding less than three months before the start of the next school year.
tabling member constituency	West Ham
tabling member printed	Ms Lyn Brown
uin	16901
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/06/2022 answer text <p>The department is aware of the importance of giving primary schools as much notice as possible of the funding for PE and sport premium in order to support its effective use. We will confirm the level of funding for the PE and sport premium for the 2022/23 academic year in due course.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 16/06/2022 17:00:02 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown

1469864

registered interest
date	13/06/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Civil Engineering: Apprentices
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether he plans to undertake a review of the decision to change the arrangements for End Point Assessments for civil engineering degree apprenticeship by introducing regulation by Ofqual of End-Point Assessment Organisations.
tabling member constituency	Chesterfield
tabling member printed	Mr Toby Perkins
uin	16912
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/06/2022 answer text <p>This is a matter for the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education. I have asked its Chief Executive, Jennifer Coupland, to write to you and a copy of her reply will be placed in the Libraries of both Houses.</p><p><strong><br> </strong></p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart question first answered 16/06/2022 11:18:44 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
tabling member	3952 label Biography information for Mr Toby Perkins

1469867

registered interest
date	13/06/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Higher Education: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he is taking to provide financial support to higher education establishments; what assessment he has made of the potential merits of (a) reviewing the Adult Education Budget (AEB) business case processes, (b) offering an income guarantee for colleges, (c) implementing a rate premium on priority courses and qualifications and (d) introducing a cost-increase sharing mechanism for his Department's approved capital projects.
tabling member constituency	Batley and Spen
tabling member printed	Kim Leadbeater
uin	17172
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/06/2022 answer text <p>Across the next three years, the department is investing almost £900 million of further funding into the higher education sector. This includes the largest increase in government funding in over a decade, to support students and teaching.</p><p>The department recognises the challenges providers have faced as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. We also know that many providers have been able to continue to deliver provision successfully throughout the pandemic and now expect them to have had the time and opportunity to adjust their learning offers to accommodate online/flexible learning in response to further COVID-19 waves. That is why for the current academic year (2021/22) we plan to maintain the Education and Skills Funding Agency’s Adult Education Budget reconciliation threshold at 97%.</p><p>The department is committed to investing in 16-19 education, ensuring that further education (FE) is financially sustainable and we have taken several steps to increase funding and bolster the FE sector.</p><p>The 2021 Spending Review has made available an extra £1.6 billion for 16-19 education in the 2024/25 financial year compared with the 2021/22 financial year. This includes an up-front cash boost which will see the rate of funding per student increase by over 8% in the 2022/23 academic year.</p><p>The significant increase to the national funding rate and the other funding increases alongside this, demonstrates our commitment to 16-19 education and will help with college income.</p><p>The department has set out details of how the additional funding will be allocated in the 2022/23 academic year. Along with increasing the national rate of funding for a Band 5 student to £4,542, we are also increasing:</p><p>o the High Value Courses Premium from £400 to £600</p><p>o disadvantage Block 2 and the Block 1 for looked after children and care leaver rates from £480 to £504</p><p>o the programme cost weightings for five subject areas (medicine and dentistry, nursing and subjects and vocations allied to medicinen transportation operations and maintenance, building and construction and urban, rural, and regional planning), to better match the cost of delivery</p><p> </p><p>The department also announced on 4 April 2022, the colleges that were successful in the FE Capital Transformation Fund bidding process. Each college has received a grant offer from the department. Most colleges will also be contributing match funding. It is for colleges to manage their condition improvement project within the budget available. We will monitor progress across all college projects.</p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart question first answered 16/06/2022 11:08:13 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
tabling member	4923 label Biography information for Kim Leadbeater