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1679057

registered interest
date	19/12/2023
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	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 13 December 2023 to Question 3789 on Apprentices: Taxation, what the total expired unused Apprenticeship Levy funds were in each month since May 2019.
tabling member constituency	Witham
tabling member printed	Priti Patel
uin	7553
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2024 answer text <p>The government introduced the apprenticeship levy to incentivise larger businesses to develop and invest in their own apprenticeship programmes whilst ensuring the availability of funding for smaller employers wanting to offer apprenticeships. Through the levy, the government is increasing investment in the apprenticeships system in England to £2.7 billion in the 2024/25 financial year to support employers of all sizes to boost the skills of their workforces. As the apprenticeship levy is UK-wide, income from the levy also supports the Devolved Administrations to invest in their skills programmes.</p><p> </p><p>Employers in England who pay the apprenticeship levy can access funds for apprenticeship training and assessment by registering for an apprenticeship service account. The funds in employers’ accounts reflect the ‘English percentage’ of an employer’s levy contribution and include a 10% top-up from the government. The department does not record industry, sector or organisation type when levy-paying employers register an apprenticeship service account. For this reason, data which shows which sectors were most or least likely to spend their funds cannot be provided. The department does hold information relating to individual employer accounts but it would not be appropriate to disclose this information without consulting with employers.</p><p> </p><p>Employers can use their levy funds for apprenticeships in their own business or transfer up to 25% of their funds to other businesses. Funds that levy payers do not draw on are used to fund apprenticeships in small and medium sized businesses who do not pay the levy. Levy payers are not expected to use all funds available to them, though they are able to do so.</p><p> </p><p>The funds in apprenticeship service accounts are available for levy-paying employers to draw on for 24 months before they expire on a rolling, month-by-month basis. The table attached shows the total funds that expired from levy-paying employers apprenticeship service accounts in each month since May 2019. The decline in levy expiry value for October 2021 was due to a delay transferring levy into employer accounts. As a result, employers were granted an additional month to spend those funds, to ensure that the 24-month window to spend funds was maintained.</p><p> </p><p>The funds available to levy-paying employers through their apprenticeship service accounts are not the same as the apprenticeships budget which funds apprenticeships in England for employers of all sizes. As such, expired funds from employers’ accounts do not represent funding that is lost to the system. Rather, the department directs this funding to supporting apprenticeships in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), to English and mathematics training for apprentices and to additional payments to employers, training providers and apprentices. On average, 98% of the English apprenticeships budget has been spent over the last two financial years.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Harlow answering member printed Robert Halfon grouped question UIN 7554 question first answered 08/01/2024 17:08:49 answering member 3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon attachment 1 file name 7553_7554_Apprenticeship_levy_funds.xlsx title 7553 7554 Table
tabling member	4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel

1679058

registered interest
date	19/12/2023
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	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, which (a) sectors and (b) employers were (i) most and (ii) least likely to utilise the funds provided through the apprenticeship levy in the latest period for which data is available.
tabling member constituency	Witham
tabling member printed	Priti Patel
uin	7554
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2024 answer text <p>The government introduced the apprenticeship levy to incentivise larger businesses to develop and invest in their own apprenticeship programmes whilst ensuring the availability of funding for smaller employers wanting to offer apprenticeships. Through the levy, the government is increasing investment in the apprenticeships system in England to £2.7 billion in the 2024/25 financial year to support employers of all sizes to boost the skills of their workforces. As the apprenticeship levy is UK-wide, income from the levy also supports the Devolved Administrations to invest in their skills programmes.</p><p> </p><p>Employers in England who pay the apprenticeship levy can access funds for apprenticeship training and assessment by registering for an apprenticeship service account. The funds in employers’ accounts reflect the ‘English percentage’ of an employer’s levy contribution and include a 10% top-up from the government. The department does not record industry, sector or organisation type when levy-paying employers register an apprenticeship service account. For this reason, data which shows which sectors were most or least likely to spend their funds cannot be provided. The department does hold information relating to individual employer accounts but it would not be appropriate to disclose this information without consulting with employers.</p><p> </p><p>Employers can use their levy funds for apprenticeships in their own business or transfer up to 25% of their funds to other businesses. Funds that levy payers do not draw on are used to fund apprenticeships in small and medium sized businesses who do not pay the levy. Levy payers are not expected to use all funds available to them, though they are able to do so.</p><p> </p><p>The funds in apprenticeship service accounts are available for levy-paying employers to draw on for 24 months before they expire on a rolling, month-by-month basis. The table attached shows the total funds that expired from levy-paying employers apprenticeship service accounts in each month since May 2019. The decline in levy expiry value for October 2021 was due to a delay transferring levy into employer accounts. As a result, employers were granted an additional month to spend those funds, to ensure that the 24-month window to spend funds was maintained.</p><p> </p><p>The funds available to levy-paying employers through their apprenticeship service accounts are not the same as the apprenticeships budget which funds apprenticeships in England for employers of all sizes. As such, expired funds from employers’ accounts do not represent funding that is lost to the system. Rather, the department directs this funding to supporting apprenticeships in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), to English and mathematics training for apprentices and to additional payments to employers, training providers and apprentices. On average, 98% of the English apprenticeships budget has been spent over the last two financial years.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Harlow answering member printed Robert Halfon grouped question UIN 7553 question first answered 08/01/2024 17:08:49 answering member 3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon attachment 1 file name 7553_7554_Apprenticeship_levy_funds.xlsx title 7553 7554 Table
tabling member	4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel

1679117

registered interest
date	19/12/2023
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pupils: Transgender People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she had discussions with (a) teachers' trade unions and (b) LGBTQ+ organisations on her Department's draft guidance on Gender questioning children: draft schools and colleges guidance, published on 19 December 2023.
tabling member constituency	Poplar and Limehouse
tabling member printed	Apsana Begum
uin	7688
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2024 answer text <p>The department is keen to consider the full range of views from all stakeholders and the public consultation on the draft guidance which is open until 12 March 2024 to allow all organisations and individuals to comment.</p><p>During this 12-week consultation period, the department plans to engage with a range of interested organisations, including organisations that represent LGBT groups.</p><p>In forming the guidance the department and Ministers engaged with experts, including Dr Hilary Cass, school leaders and Parliamentarians, including those who represent LGBT groups.</p><p>Departmental officials spoke to a range of groups and organisations to help inform the guidance.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 11/01/2024 13:21:41 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4790 label Biography information for Apsana Begum

1679120

registered interest
date	19/12/2023
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Institutes of Technology: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much funding has been provided to Institutes of Technology in (a) wave one and (b) wave two in each year since 2019.
tabling member constituency	Feltham and Heston
tabling member printed	Seema Malhotra
uin	7571
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2024 answer text <p>The department is delivering 21 Institutes of Technology (IoTs), which exceeds the manifesto commitment of 20, of which 19 are already open.</p><p> </p><p>The department is providing up to £300 million of capital funding to the IoT programme to ensure that learners have access to high quality premises and industry standard equipment. The following capital funding has been provided since the programme commenced:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>Wave 1 </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Wave 2 </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2019/2020</strong></p></td><td><p>£21,836,758</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2020/2021</strong></p></td><td><p>£60,772,151</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2021/2022</strong></p></td><td><p>£38,932,896</p></td><td><p>£706,258</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2022/2023</strong></p></td><td><p>£38,655,887</p></td><td><p>£5,822,800</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>For Wave 1, this funded 47 new facilities, which comprised of 19 new builds and 28 refurbishments. 52 IoT partners received funding for specialist equipment. Wave 2 is comprised of 30 new facility projects, including 7 new builds and 23 refurbishments. 37 partners will receive funding for specialist equipment.</p><p> </p><p>IoTs are funded for participating learners in the same way as further education colleges and higher education institutions.</p><p> </p><p>The number of full-time equivalent staff working at IoTs is a matter for the individual IoTs and their constituent partners. The department does not hold the information requested on how many IoTs have specially built facilities.</p> answering member constituency Harlow answering member printed Robert Halfon grouped question UIN 7572 7573 question first answered 08/01/2024 16:42:36 answering member 3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon
tabling member	4253 label Biography information for Seema Malhotra

1679121

registered interest
date	19/12/2023
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pupils: LGBT+ People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has made an estimate of the proportion of pupils identifying as LGBTQ+ who have been bullied in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Poplar and Limehouse
tabling member printed	Apsana Begum
uin	7689
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/01/2024 answer text <p>The department has not made a specific assessment of the potential impact of schools on the mental health of LGBTQ+ young people, but the department is aware that bullying in school can have a profound effect on a child’s mental health and collect regular information.</p><p> </p><p>To support schools, the department is providing over £3 million of funding, between 10 August 2021 and 31 March 2024, to five anti-bullying organisations to support schools to tackle bullying. This includes projects targeting bullying of particular groups, such as those who are victims of hate related bullying and homophobic, bi-phobic and transphobic based bullying.</p><p> </p><p>The department is taking actions to tackle bullying as part of the commitment to ensuring schools are safe, supportive, inclusive environments where all pupils feel they belong. The department’s programme of senior mental health lead training is further supporting schools to promote the mental health and wellbeing of all pupils through effective whole-school approaches. This approach should include creating an environment that promotes respect and values diversity, having robust processes for identifying individuals or groups of pupils in need of further support, and ensuring all staff can recognise and understand how to respond to mental health concerns. The department has committed to offer all schools and colleges funding to train a senior mental health lead by 2025. Over 14,000 settings, including more than 7 in 10 state secondary schools, have taken up the offer so far.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds grouped question UIN 7690 question first answered 09/01/2024 12:21:07 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4790 label Biography information for Apsana Begum

1679122

registered interest
date	19/12/2023
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pupils: LGBT+ People
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 potential impact of schools on the mental health of young people identifying as LGBTQ+.
tabling member constituency	Poplar and Limehouse
tabling member printed	Apsana Begum
uin	7690
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/01/2024 answer text <p>The department has not made a specific assessment of the potential impact of schools on the mental health of LGBTQ+ young people, but the department is aware that bullying in school can have a profound effect on a child’s mental health and collect regular information.</p><p> </p><p>To support schools, the department is providing over £3 million of funding, between 10 August 2021 and 31 March 2024, to five anti-bullying organisations to support schools to tackle bullying. This includes projects targeting bullying of particular groups, such as those who are victims of hate related bullying and homophobic, bi-phobic and transphobic based bullying.</p><p> </p><p>The department is taking actions to tackle bullying as part of the commitment to ensuring schools are safe, supportive, inclusive environments where all pupils feel they belong. The department’s programme of senior mental health lead training is further supporting schools to promote the mental health and wellbeing of all pupils through effective whole-school approaches. This approach should include creating an environment that promotes respect and values diversity, having robust processes for identifying individuals or groups of pupils in need of further support, and ensuring all staff can recognise and understand how to respond to mental health concerns. The department has committed to offer all schools and colleges funding to train a senior mental health lead by 2025. Over 14,000 settings, including more than 7 in 10 state secondary schools, have taken up the offer so far.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds grouped question UIN 7689 question first answered 09/01/2024 12:21:07 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4790 label Biography information for Apsana Begum

1679123

registered interest
date	19/12/2023
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Institutes of Technology: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many full-time equivalent staff are working at Institutes of Technology.
tabling member constituency	Feltham and Heston
tabling member printed	Seema Malhotra
uin	7572
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2024 answer text <p>The department is delivering 21 Institutes of Technology (IoTs), which exceeds the manifesto commitment of 20, of which 19 are already open.</p><p> </p><p>The department is providing up to £300 million of capital funding to the IoT programme to ensure that learners have access to high quality premises and industry standard equipment. The following capital funding has been provided since the programme commenced:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>Wave 1 </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Wave 2 </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2019/2020</strong></p></td><td><p>£21,836,758</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2020/2021</strong></p></td><td><p>£60,772,151</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2021/2022</strong></p></td><td><p>£38,932,896</p></td><td><p>£706,258</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2022/2023</strong></p></td><td><p>£38,655,887</p></td><td><p>£5,822,800</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>For Wave 1, this funded 47 new facilities, which comprised of 19 new builds and 28 refurbishments. 52 IoT partners received funding for specialist equipment. Wave 2 is comprised of 30 new facility projects, including 7 new builds and 23 refurbishments. 37 partners will receive funding for specialist equipment.</p><p> </p><p>IoTs are funded for participating learners in the same way as further education colleges and higher education institutions.</p><p> </p><p>The number of full-time equivalent staff working at IoTs is a matter for the individual IoTs and their constituent partners. The department does not hold the information requested on how many IoTs have specially built facilities.</p> answering member constituency Harlow answering member printed Robert Halfon grouped question UIN 7571 7573 question first answered 08/01/2024 16:42:36 answering member 3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon
tabling member	4253 label Biography information for Seema Malhotra

1679124

registered interest
date	19/12/2023
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Institutes of Technology: Facilities
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many Institutes of Technology have specially built facilities.
tabling member constituency	Feltham and Heston
tabling member printed	Seema Malhotra
uin	7573
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2024 answer text <p>The department is delivering 21 Institutes of Technology (IoTs), which exceeds the manifesto commitment of 20, of which 19 are already open.</p><p> </p><p>The department is providing up to £300 million of capital funding to the IoT programme to ensure that learners have access to high quality premises and industry standard equipment. The following capital funding has been provided since the programme commenced:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>Wave 1 </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Wave 2 </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2019/2020</strong></p></td><td><p>£21,836,758</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2020/2021</strong></p></td><td><p>£60,772,151</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2021/2022</strong></p></td><td><p>£38,932,896</p></td><td><p>£706,258</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2022/2023</strong></p></td><td><p>£38,655,887</p></td><td><p>£5,822,800</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>For Wave 1, this funded 47 new facilities, which comprised of 19 new builds and 28 refurbishments. 52 IoT partners received funding for specialist equipment. Wave 2 is comprised of 30 new facility projects, including 7 new builds and 23 refurbishments. 37 partners will receive funding for specialist equipment.</p><p> </p><p>IoTs are funded for participating learners in the same way as further education colleges and higher education institutions.</p><p> </p><p>The number of full-time equivalent staff working at IoTs is a matter for the individual IoTs and their constituent partners. The department does not hold the information requested on how many IoTs have specially built facilities.</p> answering member constituency Harlow answering member printed Robert Halfon grouped question UIN 7571 7572 question first answered 08/01/2024 16:42:36 answering member 3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon
tabling member	4253 label Biography information for Seema Malhotra

1679127

registered interest
date	19/12/2023
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Special Educational Needs: Admissions
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 ensure there is an adequate provision of SEND places in schools.
tabling member constituency	Bishop Auckland
tabling member printed	Dehenna Davison
uin	7669
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/01/2024 answer text <p>The department recognises the importance of accessing timely and effective support to improving the experiences of children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), and their families. Nationally, 17% of pupils are identified with some form of SEN, three quarters of whom receive SEN support from their mainstream school, funded from its own resources.</p><p> </p><p>Local authorities must ensure that there are sufficient good school places for all pupils, including special schools and those with SEND. They are statutorily required to keep the services and provision for children and young people with SEND under review, including its sufficiency, working with parents, young people, and providers.</p><p> </p><p>To support local authorities to meet this duty, in the SEND and Alternative Provision (AP) Improvement Plan, the department committed to investing £2.6 billion between 2022 and 2025 to fund new special and AP places and improve existing provision for children and young people with SEND, including announcing 41 new special free schools. This funding represents a significant, transformational investment in new high needs provision. As part of this investment, the department has published over £1.5 billion of High Needs Provision Capital Allocations for the 2022/23 and 2023/24 financial years. Of this, Durham has been allocated a total of £11.2 million. Local authorities can use their allocations to deliver new places in mainstream and special schools, as well as other specialist settings such as specialist post-16 institutions, and to improve the suitability and accessibility of existing buildings. This investment is on top of the department’s ongoing delivery of new special and AP free schools.</p><p> </p><p>Through these reforms, the department wants to ensure that placements for children and young people with SEND are sufficient to meet need, allowing them to access the right support, in the right setting, at the right time.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed David Johnston question first answered 10/01/2024 16:40:32 answering member 4761 label Biography information for David Johnston
tabling member	4737 label Biography information for Dehenna Davison

1679151

registered interest
date	19/12/2023
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Apprentices: Havering
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 the take-up of degree-level apprenticeships in the London Borough of Havering.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	7507
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2024 answer text <p>Degree level apprenticeships offer excellent opportunities for people of all ages and backgrounds. Employers have designed over 170 high quality, degree level apprenticeship standards to support them in developing the skilled workforces they need.</p><p>It is great to see that there were 46,800 degree level apprenticeship starts in the 2022/23 academic year, which is an increase of 8.2% on 2021/22, of which 260 starts were by learners living in the Havering local authority area.</p><p>The department would like to further accelerate the growth of higher and degree apprenticeships and encourage higher education providers to expand their existing offers or develop new ones. An additional £40 million is being invested over the next two years to support degree apprenticeship providers to expand and to help more people access this provision, on top of the department’s £8 million investment in 2022/23.</p><p>Apprenticeships are also continually being promoted in schools and colleges through the Apprenticeship Support and Knowledge programme. The programme had a reach of 640,000 interactions with young people in over 2,400 schools in 2022/23 and is supported by £3.2 million of funding annually.</p> answering member constituency Harlow answering member printed Robert Halfon question first answered 08/01/2024 17:01:35 answering member 3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell