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968822

registered interest
date	05/09/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Students: Loans
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have, if any, to provide assistance to students paying over six per cent in interest on their tuition fees and maintenance loans.
tabling member printed	Lord Roberts of Llandudno
uin	HL10106
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/09/2018 answer text <p>The system of variable interest rates based on income is progressive, and ensures that higher earners make a fair contribution to the sustainability of the higher education system.</p><p> </p><p>Student loan interest rates vary with income. Only borrowers earning over £45,000 and those in study pay the maximum interest rate of 6.3% and many will be charged less than this. The system of variable interest rates help ensure that the highest earners make a higher total contribution than those on lower incomes.</p><p> </p><p>Reducing interest rates would benefit high earners only. That is why the government has increased the repayment threshold from tax year 2018-19 and will increase the repayment threshold again in April 2019, reducing monthly repayments for all borrowers earning above £25,000.</p><p> </p><p>We believe that it is right that students should contribute to the cost of their higher education and that this contribution should be linked to their income. This means that those who have benefited the most from their education repay their fair share.</p> answering member printed Viscount Younger of Leckie question first answered 13/09/2018 14:38:53 answering member 4169 label Biography information for Viscount Younger of Leckie
tabling member	3691 label Biography information for Lord Roberts of Llandudno

967518

registered interest
date	04/09/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Airbus: North Wales
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have, if any, to provide alternative apprenticeship opportunities in North Wales if Airbus move their operations to Europe following Brexit.
tabling member printed	Lord Roberts of Llandudno
uin	HL10005
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/09/2018 answer text <p>Apprenticeships is a devolved policy. The Welsh government have their own arrangements for supporting employers to access and pay for apprenticeships.</p><p> </p><p>In the wider context, we are working with the Department for Exiting the European Union to make sure that we fully understand the risks and opportunities that EU exit presents, and the capability of the skills system to respond.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Agnew of Oulton question first answered 17/09/2018 13:08:42 answering member 4689 label Biography information for Lord Agnew of Oulton
tabling member	3691 label Biography information for Lord Roberts of Llandudno

874609

registered interest
date	29/03/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Diabetes: Health Education
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to ensure that there is adequate education in schools regarding awareness of diabetes.
tabling member printed	Lord Roberts of Llandudno
uin	HL6829
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/04/2018 answer text <p>It is important that children with medical conditions such as diabetes are supported to enjoy a full education. We have introduced a duty on governing bodies to make arrangements to support pupils with medical conditions and provided statutory guidance, which is attached, outlining schools’ responsibilities in this area.</p><p> </p><p>As part of this guidance, we have provided a collection of links to useful resources to help schools support their pupils with medical conditions. This includes a link to the ‘diabetes in schools’ section of the Diabetes UK website.</p> answering member printed Lord Agnew of Oulton question first answered 13/04/2018 11:59:25 answering member 4689 label Biography information for Lord Agnew of Oulton attachment 1 file name HL6829 attachment.pdf title Supporting_school_pupils_with_medical_conditions
tabling member	3691 label Biography information for Lord Roberts of Llandudno

873028

registered interest
date	27/03/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: First Aid
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to ensure that there are adequate numbers of medically-trained staff in schools.
tabling member printed	Lord Roberts of Llandudno
uin	HL6709
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/04/2018 answer text <p>In December 2015, we published the attached statutory guidance for schools on managing the medical conditions of their pupils.</p><p> </p><p>The guidance states that governing bodies must make arrangements to support pupils with medical conditions in school. They should also ensure that sufficient staff have received suitable training and are competent before they take on responsibility to support children with medical conditions.</p><p> </p><p>The relevant healthcare professional should normally lead on identifying and agreeing with the school the type and level of training required, and how this can be obtained.</p> answering member printed Lord Agnew of Oulton question first answered 12/04/2018 15:07:13 answering member 4689 label Biography information for Lord Agnew of Oulton attachment 1 file name HL6709 attachment.pdf title Supporting_school_pupils_with_medical_conditions
tabling member	3691 label Biography information for Lord Roberts of Llandudno

873032

registered interest
date	27/03/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Syria
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they will initiate a schools twinning programme between schools in England and schools in Syria.
tabling member printed	Lord Roberts of Llandudno
uin	HL6712
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/04/2018 answer text <p>The Department for Education has no plans to initiate a twinning programme between schools in England and schools in Syria. Before the conflict, the British Council’s Connecting Classrooms programme operated in Syria and provided a funded opportunity for teachers in the UK and the Middle East North Africa region to meet and share best practice. <br> <br> Whilst this programme is not currently active in Syria, schools in Jordan, where there are a number of Syrian refugees, and schools in Lebanon, where there are high proportions of Syrian pupils, continue to participate in the programme. Once the situation in Syria stabilises, the Department for Education would be very supportive of Syria re-joining the British Council’s Connecting Classrooms programme.</p> answering member printed Lord Agnew of Oulton question first answered 06/04/2018 12:39:06 answering member 4689 label Biography information for Lord Agnew of Oulton
tabling member	3691 label Biography information for Lord Roberts of Llandudno

832825

registered interest
date	29/01/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Asylum: Children
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what training (1) social workers, and (2) foster parents, who are responsible for unaccompanied asylum-seeking children, are given with regard to immigration issues.
tabling member printed	Lord Roberts of Llandudno
uin	HL5139
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2018 answer text <p>The revised statutory guidance, published on 1 November 2017, for the care of unaccompanied migrant children and child victims of modern slavery attached, sets out the responsibility for all local authorities to ensure that social workers, personal advisers and their managers should understand how the child’s experiences, vulnerabilities and immigration status may impact on children. This can also have an impact on their assessment, care planning and delivery, and planning for the transition to adulthood.</p><p> </p><p>The Fostering Services Regulations 2011 clearly sets out that all foster carers must receive the training and development they need to carry out their role effectively and to meet the child’s individual needs. It is up to local fostering services to determine what training they offer so they are able to meet local needs, such as training specifically in relation to unaccompanied asylum seeking children. Many local authorities and agencies have developed evidence-based training packages for their carers on a range of related issues.</p><p> </p><p>On 1 November 2017, the Department for Education and Home Office published the attached safeguarding strategy on unaccompanied and asylum-seeking children. This sets out additional actions that the government will take to safeguard and promote the welfare of these children. Commitments include providing 1,000 training places for foster carers and support workers caring for unaccompanied children, and downloadable training resources to enable social workers to understand when and how they should be involved in a child’s immigration claim.</p> answering member printed Lord Agnew of Oulton attachment 1 file name UASC_Safeguarding_Strategy_2017.pdf title Safeguarding Strategy 2 file name UASC_Statutory_Guidance_2017.pdf title Care of unaccompanied migrant children question first answered 12/02/2018 16:49:59 answering member 4689 label Biography information for Lord Agnew of Oulton
tabling member	3691 label Biography information for Lord Roberts of Llandudno

682674

registered interest
date	01/02/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Asylum: Children
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the written ministerial statement by the Minister of State for Vulnerable Children and Families, Mr Edward Timpson, on 1 November 2016 concerning a safeguarding strategy for unaccompanied asylum-seeking and refugee children (HCWS232), what that strategy will contain; and when it will be published.
tabling member printed	Lord Roberts of Llandudno
uin	HL5177
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/02/2017 answer text <p>The safeguarding strategy for unaccompanied asylum seeking and refugee children will be published by 1 May 2017.</p><p>The strategy will set out how we will continue to support local authorities and other agencies to care for these young people, through increasing placement capacity, encouraging the use of supported lodgings, addressing additional training needs and revising statutory guidance on how to support and care for these children. In developing the strategy, we will also evaluate procedures for the safe transfer of children from Europe, identify further action to prevent these children going missing, review information provided to these children about their rights, and review the funding provided to local authorities to assist them in supporting and caring for these children. The strategy will cover not only unaccompanied children who will become looked after, but also children who are seeking to be reunited with family.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 10/02/2017 12:21:51 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
tabling member	3691 label Biography information for Lord Roberts of Llandudno

678840

registered interest
date	25/01/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Asylum: Children in Care
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many unaccompanied asylum-seeking children went missing from local authority care in England in (1) 2014, (2) 2015, and (3) 2016.
tabling member printed	Lord Roberts of Llandudno
uin	HL4992
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2017 answer text <p>National statistics on numbers of unaccompanied asylum seeking children (UASC) who were looked after at 31 March are available in Table A3 of the attached document. Experimental official statistics on looked after children who went missing during the year are available in Table G1 of the same document.</p><p>During the whole year ending 31 March 2015, 190 unaccompanied asylum-seeking children were identified as having had a missing incident.</p><p>During the year ending 31 March 2016, 640 unaccompanied asylum-seeking children were identified as having had a missing incident. Due to improvements in quality and completeness of the experimental statistics, figures for 2015 and 2016 are not comparable.</p><p>These experimental official statistics were collected for the first time in the year ending 31 March 2015 and so figures are not available for 2014.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 07/02/2017 17:42:47 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash attachment 1 file name HL4992 Attachment.xlsx title Looked after children inengland including adoption
tabling member	3691 label Biography information for Lord Roberts of Llandudno

678844

registered interest
date	25/01/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Asylum: Children
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many unaccompanied asylum-seeking children under 12 years of age have been accepted into foster care in the UK in the past 12 months.
tabling member printed	Lord Roberts of Llandudno
uin	HL4996
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2017 answer text <p>In the year ending 31 March 2016, there were 50 unaccompanied asylum-seeking children under 12 years of age who were looked after in a foster placement in England and 1,560 between the ages of 12 to 18 years.</p><p> </p><p>The Department for Education only holds the information for England. The devolved administrations hold the information for the other constituent countries.</p> answering member printed Lord Nash grouped question UIN HL4997 question first answered 07/02/2017 17:38:03 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
tabling member	3691 label Biography information for Lord Roberts of Llandudno

678845

registered interest
date	25/01/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Asylum: Children
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many unaccompanied asylum-seeking children between 12 and 18 years of age have been accepted into foster care in the UK in the past 12 months.
tabling member printed	Lord Roberts of Llandudno
uin	HL4997
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2017 answer text <p>In the year ending 31 March 2016, there were 50 unaccompanied asylum-seeking children under 12 years of age who were looked after in a foster placement in England and 1,560 between the ages of 12 to 18 years.</p><p> </p><p>The Department for Education only holds the information for England. The devolved administrations hold the information for the other constituent countries.</p> answering member printed Lord Nash grouped question UIN HL4996 question first answered 07/02/2017 17:38:03 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
tabling member	3691 label Biography information for Lord Roberts of Llandudno