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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

1641108

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	Children: Social Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Written Statement of 23 May by the Minister for Children, Families and Wellbeing on Children's Social Care Update, HCWS792, and to the briefing The Cost of Delaying Reform to Children’s Social Care published on 22 May by Action for Children, Barnardo's, The Children's Society, National Children's Bureau, and NSPCC, what estimate her Department has made of the cost to the public purse of delays to reform of children’s social care.
tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
uin	187016
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2023 answer text <p>There needs to be a fundamental shift away from crisis intervention and towards earlier intervention, and ‘Stable Homes, Built on Love’ sets out how the department intends to achieve that. These are complex reforms, with complicated systemic interactions. It is critical that the department takes a test and learn approach and ensures that these models can be rolled out effectively.</p><p>Alongside the Implementation Strategy, the department announced funding of £200 million by 2024/25 to address urgent issues facing children and families now, to lay the foundations for whole system reform, and set the national direction for change. This is on top of the £142 million by 2024/25 to take forward reforms to unregulated provision in children’s social care, £160 million as announced in March 2022, over the next three years to deliver our Adoption Strategy. This is also in addition to £259 million over the Spending Review 2021 period to maintain capacity and expand provision in secure and open residential children’s homes, and £230 million over the same period to support young people leaving care.</p><p>This is in addition to the £3.85 billion social care grant to local authorities for adults and children’s social care this year.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Claire Coutinho question first answered 12/06/2023 16:48:00 answering member 4806 label Biography information for Claire Coutinho
tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

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

1641145

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	Personal, Social, Health and Economic Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department has issued guidance to schools on discussions of Andrew Tate’s views in Personal, Social and Health Education lessons.
tabling member constituency	Portsmouth South
tabling member printed	Stephen Morgan
uin	187568
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2023 answer text <p>The statutory guidance for relationships, sex and health education (RSHE) does not address teaching about the views of Andrew Tate directly, but it emphasises that schools should be aware of issues such as everyday sexism, misogyny, homophobia and gender stereotypes.</p><p>Schools should take positive action to build a culture where these are not tolerated, and any occurrences are identified and tackled. The guidance is clear that schools should make clear that sexual harassment is not acceptable, will never be tolerated, and is not an inevitable part of growing up. The statutory guidance can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/relationships-education-relationships-and-sex-education-rse-and-health-education" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/relationships-education-relationships-and-sex-education-rse-and-health-education</a>.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 12/06/2023 16:56:16 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan

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

1641174

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	Department for Education: Paper
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much her Department (a) budgeted for and (b) spent on its office paper costs in (i) the current financial year and (ii) each of the last five financial years.
tabling member constituency	Houghton and Sunderland South
tabling member printed	Bridget Phillipson
uin	187172
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2023 answer text <p>The Department does not specifically budget for or capture financial data narrowly on paper costs for the core Department and its agencies, due to how office occupancy and facilities management (including access to printing services) is structured. The Department does report paper consumption in its Annual Report and Accounts as part of the sustainability reporting requirements in central government. On the basis of these consumption numbers and applying indicative market prices for paper the estimated paper costs in 2022-23 and the previous five years for the Department and its Agencies is as follows:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="6"><p><strong>Actual performance</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>2022-23</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2021-22</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2020-21</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2019-20</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2018-19</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2017-18</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>Baseline</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Reams of Paper</p></td><td><p>11,816</p></td><td><p>12,385</p></td><td><p>12,369</p></td><td><p>22,348</p></td><td><p>34,374</p></td><td><p>27,250</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Expected cost</p></td><td><p>£53,172</p></td><td><p>£49,929</p></td><td><p>£42,242</p></td><td><p>£76,680</p></td><td><p>£121,032</p></td><td><p>£92,887</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb grouped question UIN 187175 187176 187177 question first answered 20/07/2023 16:31:09 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4046 label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson

1641175

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	Ofsted: Paper
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much Ofsted (a) budgeted for and (b) spent on its office paper costs in (i) the current financial year and (ii) each of the last five financial years.
tabling member constituency	Houghton and Sunderland South
tabling member printed	Bridget Phillipson
uin	187173
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2023 answer text <p>Budgets and spend relating to office supplies and other office costs is a matter for the relevant non-ministerial department or Executive non-departmental public body. The Department neither holds nor is required to hold this information.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb grouped question UIN 187174 187178 187179 187180 187181 187182 187183 question first answered 20/07/2023 16:43:29 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4046 label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson

1641176

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	Ofqual: Paper
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much Ofqual (a) budgeted for and (b) spent on its office paper costs in (i) the current financial year and (ii) each of the last five financial years.
tabling member constituency	Houghton and Sunderland South
tabling member printed	Bridget Phillipson
uin	187174
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2023 answer text <p>Budgets and spend relating to office supplies and other office costs is a matter for the relevant non-ministerial department or Executive non-departmental public body. The Department neither holds nor is required to hold this information.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb grouped question UIN 187173 187178 187179 187180 187181 187182 187183 question first answered 20/07/2023 16:43:29 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4046 label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson

1641177

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	Education and Skills Funding Agency: Paper
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much the Education and Skills Funding Agency (a) budgeted for and (b) spent on its office paper costs in (i) the current financial year and (ii) each of the last five financial years.
tabling member constituency	Houghton and Sunderland South
tabling member printed	Bridget Phillipson
uin	187175
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2023 answer text <p>The Department does not specifically budget for or capture financial data narrowly on paper costs for the core Department and its agencies, due to how office occupancy and facilities management (including access to printing services) is structured. The Department does report paper consumption in its Annual Report and Accounts as part of the sustainability reporting requirements in central government. On the basis of these consumption numbers and applying indicative market prices for paper the estimated paper costs in 2022-23 and the previous five years for the Department and its Agencies is as follows:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="6"><p><strong>Actual performance</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>2022-23</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2021-22</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2020-21</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2019-20</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2018-19</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2017-18</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>Baseline</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Reams of Paper</p></td><td><p>11,816</p></td><td><p>12,385</p></td><td><p>12,369</p></td><td><p>22,348</p></td><td><p>34,374</p></td><td><p>27,250</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Expected cost</p></td><td><p>£53,172</p></td><td><p>£49,929</p></td><td><p>£42,242</p></td><td><p>£76,680</p></td><td><p>£121,032</p></td><td><p>£92,887</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb grouped question UIN 187172 187176 187177 question first answered 20/07/2023 16:31:09 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4046 label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson