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1641067

registered interest
date	02/06/2023
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Developing Countries: Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much her Department spent on education about international development in schools in England in the last financial year.
tabling member constituency	Leeds Central
tabling member printed	Hilary Benn
uin	187044
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2023 answer text <p>The Autumn Statement 2022 announced additional funding of £2 billion in both 2023/24 and 2024/25, over and above totals announced at the Spending Review 2021. This means funding for mainstream schools and high needs is £3.5 billion higher in 2023/24, compared to 2022/23. That is on top of the £4 billion, year on year increase provided in 2022/23. This is an increase of £7.5 billion, or over 15%, in just two years.</p><p>This additional funding will enable headteachers to continue to allocate budgets to areas that positively impact educational attainment, including high quality teaching and targeted support to the children who need it most, as well as help schools to manage higher costs, including higher energy bills.</p><p>All schools and academies have the freedom to choose how to spend their core funding according to their own unique circumstances and priorities, providing that all expenditure ultimately benefits their students. The Department does not allocate specific budgets for each subject. It is for schools to decide the allocation of resources at an individual school level.</p><p>Geography is part of the statutory National Curriculum for maintained schools at Key Stages 1, 2 and 3. Within geography, the National Curriculum and subject content for GCSE sets out requirements for teaching human geography including economic, global and international development.</p><p>Citizenship is also part of the statutory National Curriculum at Key Stages 3 and 4. As part of citizenship, pupils will learn about Parliament, the importance of voting and elections, the role of police, courts and justice, free press, human rights and international law and the governments of other countries, both democratic and non-democratic. They are also taught the actions citizens can take in democratic and electoral processes to influence decisions locally, nationally and beyond.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 12/06/2023 08:47:46 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	413 label Biography information for Hilary Benn

1641124

registered interest
date	02/06/2023
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Health Education
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 promote healthy eating in schools.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	187062
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2023 answer text <p>The Department encourages a healthy balanced diet and healthy life choices through school funding, legislation and guidance. Schools are encouraged to have a whole school approach to healthy eating through the National Curriculum and school food provision.</p><p>The standards for school food are set out in the Requirements for School Food Regulations 2014. These regulations are designed to ensure that schools provide pupils with healthy food and drink options, and to make sure that pupils have the energy and nutrition they need throughout the school day.</p><p>1.9 million of the most disadvantaged pupils are eligible for and are claiming a free, healthy and nutritious school meal. An additional 1.25 million infants enjoy a free meal at lunchtime, following the introduction of Universal Infant Free School Meals.</p><p>The School Fruit and Vegetables Scheme also provides over 2.2 million pupils in Reception and Key Stage 1 with a portion of fresh fruit or vegetables each day at school. Schools are encouraged to use this as an opportunity to educate pupils on the benefits of a healthy, balanced diet.</p><p>The importance of a healthy diet is also included in the science curriculum for both primary and secondary school. Healthy eating is covered through topics relating to nutrition and digestion, which cover the content of a healthy diet and the impact of diet on how the body functions.</p><p>The relationships, sex and health education statutory guidance states that by the end of primary school, pupils should know what constitutes a healthy diet (including understanding nutritional content), the principles of planning and preparing a range of healthy meals, the characteristics of a poor diet, and the risks associated with unhealthy eating. By the end of secondary school pupils should know how to maintain a healthy diet and understand the links between a poor diet and health risks.</p><p>Healthy eating and opportunities to develop pupils’ cooking skills are covered in the design and technology (DT) curriculum. Cooking and nutrition is a discrete strand of the DT curriculum and is compulsory in maintained schools for Key Stages 1 to 3. The curriculum aims to teach pupils how to cook and how to apply the principles of healthy eating and nutrition. The Department has also introduced a new food preparation and nutrition GCSE to provide pupils with practical cookery experience and teach them the underlying scientific concepts of nutrition and healthy eating.</p><p>The Healthy Schools Rating Scheme celebrates the positive actions that schools are delivering in terms of healthy living, healthy eating and physical activity, and supports schools in identifying further actions that they can take in this area. This voluntary rating scheme is available for both primary and secondary schools.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 12/06/2023 08:52:31 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1641137

registered interest
date	02/06/2023
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	University of Gibraltar: British Students Abroad
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department provides (a) support and (b) financial assistance to UK students who wish to study at the University of Gibraltar.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	187073
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2023 answer text <p>The department does not provide support or financial assistance to UK students who wish to study at the University of Gibraltar. We are exploring the options for financing English students to study in Gibraltar, whilst ensuring that those students receive an education, and that they benefit from safeguards which are broadly comparable with those in the England.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Harlow answering member printed Robert Halfon question first answered 12/06/2023 16:22:21 answering member 3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1641173

registered interest
date	02/06/2023
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Paper
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the impact of the changes in the level of the cost of paper on the budgets of (a) primary and (b) secondary schools.
tabling member constituency	Houghton and Sunderland South
tabling member printed	Bridget Phillipson
uin	187171
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2023 answer text <p>This Government is committed to providing a world class education system for all pupils and has provided significant funding for education to achieve that.</p><p>The 2022 Autumn Statement announced additional funding of £2 billion in each of the 2023/24 and 2024/25 financial years, over and above totals announced at the 2021 Spending Review. Of this additional funding, £400 million will be allocated to Local Authorities’ high needs budgets. The rest of the £2 billion will be allocated to schools through a new grant for mainstream schools and boosting the Pupil Premium funding rates. For mainstream schools, additional funding through the Mainstream Schools Additional Grant is worth on average 3.4%, or £192, per pupil in 2023/24, and is being provided on top of the allocations based on the National Funding Formula announced in July. A typical primary school with 200 pupils will receive approximately £35,000 in additional funding, and a typical secondary school with 900 pupils approximately £200,000.</p><p>This means funding for mainstream schools and high needs is £3.5 billion higher in the 2023/24 financial year, compared to 2022/23. That is on top of the £4 billion, year-on-year increase provided in the 2022/23 financial year, which is an increase of £7.5 billion, or over 15%, in just two years.</p><p>Funding for both mainstream schools and high needs will total £58.8 billion in 2024/25, which is the highest ever level in real terms per pupil. This assessment has been confirmed by the independent Institute for Fiscal Studies.</p><p>The Government provides these increases to school revenue budgets so that schools can cover cost increases in the year ahead and can continue to concentrate funding in the areas that have a positive effect on educational attainment, including high quality teaching and targeted support to the pupils who need it most.</p><p>A recent Education Hub post provides a helpful illustration of how different costs are covered nationally from within mainstream schools’ existing funding. The Hub post is available at: <a href="https://educationhub.blog.gov.uk/2023/03/28/teacher-strikes-latest-everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-teacher-pay-offer/" target="_blank">https://educationhub.blog.gov.uk/2023/03/28/teacher-strikes-latest-everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-teacher-pay-offer/</a>. Whilst this Hub post was written in relation to the 4.5% teacher pay offer in March, the Department’s calculations show that even after accounting for the increases to teachers’ and support staff pay in 2022, a total of £2.4 billion nationally will remain in mainstream schools’ budgets to cover other cost rises.</p><p>In its calculations, the Department assesses the effect of increases in spending across three broad categories: teaching staff, non-teaching staff and non-staff related expenditure, but does not analyse increases in specific categories of spending, such as paper.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 12/06/2023 15:54:02 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4046 label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson

1639491

registered interest
date	22/05/2023
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Apprentices: Taxation
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what percentage of the apprenticeship levy in 2021–22 was (1) spent by levy payers on apprenticeships in their own organisations, (2) handed down to supply chain firms to spend on apprenticeships, and (3) spent by His Majesty’s Government on apprenticeships training for SMEs.
tabling member printed	Lord Knight of Weymouth
uin	HL8010
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/06/2023 answer text <p>The UK Government, via HM Revenue and Customs, collects an apprenticeship levy of 0.5% on total payroll from businesses across the UK with an annual payroll expenditure of more than £3 million.</p><p>From this, HM Treasury sets an English apprenticeships budget for the department, and the devolved governments receive a share of the funding calculated using the Barnett formula.</p><p>The apprenticeships budget in England is used to fund training and assessment for new apprenticeship starts for all employers of all sizes, both those who pay the levy and those who do not, and to cover the ongoing costs of apprentices already in training and any additional payments made to employers, providers and apprentices. The department’s apprenticeship budget for the 2021/22 financial year was £2,466 million and total spend was £2,455 million, meaning 99.6% of the apprenticeships budget was spent.</p><p>The table below shows the percentage of the apprenticeship spend against the budget by levy payers and non-levy payers in the 2021/22 financial year, including the percentage spend by levy paying employers through levy transfers to other employers. It also reflects the spend on apprenticeships that started prior to the introduction of the apprenticeship levy reform, and non-apprenticeships training, such as the cost of running the apprenticeship service, marketing, and communications campaigns.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Apprenticeship Spend</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2021/22 financial year (£ million)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>% Spend against Budget</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Levy payers</strong></p></td><td><p>1,592</p></td><td><p>65%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><em>Of which: via levy transfer</em></p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Non-Levy payers</strong></p></td><td><p>817</p></td><td><p>33%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Pre-apprenticeship levy reforms</strong></p></td><td><p>7</p></td><td><p>0%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Non-apprenticeships training spend </strong></p></td><td><p>39</p></td><td><p>2%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total Spend</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2,455</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>100%</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Barran question first answered 05/06/2023 16:50:21 answering member 4703 label Biography information for Baroness Barran
tabling member	4160 label Biography information for Lord Knight of Weymouth

1639499

registered interest
date	22/05/2023
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Conditions of Employment: Special Educational Needs
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the relative work and pay conditions of employees (1) with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), and (2) without SEND.
tabling member printed	Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick
uin	HL8018
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/06/2023 answer text <p>The post-16 education and labour market activities, pathways and outcomes report, published in May 2021, uses the Longitudinal Education Outcomes (LEO) administrative data set to explore the pattern and nature of the pathways that people take from completing school, through their education and into the labour market. This is broken down by a number of key characteristics including special education need. The report can be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/post-16-education-and-labour-market-activities-pathways-and-outcomes-leo" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/post-16-education-and-labour-market-activities-pathways-and-outcomes-leo</a>, and the dashboard can be found here: <a href="https://department-for-education.shinyapps.io/leo-post16education-labourmarket/" target="_blank">https://department-for-education.shinyapps.io/leo-post16education-labourmarket/</a>.</p><p>The dashboard provides information on educational and labour market activities, including earnings, employment rates and out-of-work benefits uptake, for up to 15 years after leaving school.</p> answering member printed Baroness Barran question first answered 06/06/2023 15:33:38 answering member 4703 label Biography information for Baroness Barran
tabling member	4130 label Biography information for Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick

1639502

registered interest
date	22/05/2023
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pupils: Asylum
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what background information is given to schools about the situation in the home countries of pupils who have arrived in the UK as asylum seekers or refugees.
tabling member printed	Lord Roberts of Llandudno
uin	HL8021
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/05/2023 answer text <p>The department does not provide information on the situation in other countries to schools educating children who are asylum seekers and refugees.</p><p>The circumstances for civilians in many conflict zones are widely reported upon in the media and the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office publishes brief profiles for each foreign nation. These profiles can be found at: <a href="https://www.data.gov.uk/dataset/6e1f22a9-feb9-49d8-8e61-8fc19764480a/fco-country-profiles" target="_blank">https://www.data.gov.uk/dataset/6e1f22a9-feb9-49d8-8e61-8fc19764480a/fco-country-profiles</a>.</p> answering member printed Baroness Barran question first answered 31/05/2023 15:33:28 answering member 4703 label Biography information for Baroness Barran
tabling member	3691 label Biography information for Lord Roberts of Llandudno