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838073

registered interest
date	06/02/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pupil Exclusions
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many children (1) temporarily, and (2) permanently, excluded from school in England, have been provided with alternative education in each of the last three years; and what was the average proportion of those excluded who were provided with alternative education.
tabling member printed	Lord Hylton
uin	HL5418
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/02/2018 answer text <p>The information regarding exclusions can be found in the National Statistics release ‘Permanent and fixed-period exclusions in England 2015 to 2016’. The information can be found in Table 1 of the national tables, attached.</p><p>The department does not hold statistics showing the alternative provision that pupils moved to when excluded. There are legal duties on schools and local authorities to provide suitable full time education from the sixth day of a fixed-period or permanent exclusion.</p><p>The duties on schools and local authorities to provide alternative provision, and the standards that this should meet, are also set out in statutory guidance attached.</p> answering member printed Viscount Younger of Leckie attachment 1 file name HL5418 - Alternative Provision Statutory guidance for local authorities .pdf title Alternative Provision Statutory guidance 2 file name HL5418 - Permanent and fixed period exclusions by type of school.xlsx title Permanent and fixed period exclusions question first answered 20/02/2018 17:52:36 answering member 4169 label Biography information for Viscount Younger of Leckie
tabling member	2018 label Biography information for Lord Hylton

837296

registered interest
date	05/02/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children in Care
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many children were taken into care in each of the last three years, because of the destitution of their parents or carers; and in how many such cases the parents or carers were (1) asylum applicants, and (2) rejected asylum applicants.
tabling member printed	Lord Hylton
uin	HL5372
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/02/2018 answer text <p>The numbers of children who started to be looked after with a category of need of ‘Low income’ in each of the last three years can be found in the table below:</p><p> </p><p><strong>Children who started to be looked after during the years ending 31 March with a category of need of ‘low income’<strong>[1]</strong><strong>[2]</strong><strong>[3]</strong><strong>[4]</strong></strong></p><p>Years ending 31 March 2015 to 2017</p><p>Coverage: England</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>2017</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Low income</p></td><td><p>90</p></td><td><p>70</p></td><td><p>50</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><em>Source: SSDA 903</em></p><p> </p><p>This information and related figures can be found in the attached Table C1, which is part of the national statistical release ‘Children looked after in England including adoption: 2016 to 2017’.</p><p> </p><p>Information regarding the asylum status of a parent of a child looked after is not held centrally.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>[1] Numbers have been rounded to the nearest 10.</p><p>[2] Only the first occasion on which a child started to be looked after in the year has been counted.</p><p>[3] Figures exclude children looked after under an agreed series of short term placements.</p><p>[4] The main category of the eight “need codes” at the time the child started to be looked after rather than necessarily the entire reason they are looked after.</p> answering member printed Viscount Younger of Leckie question first answered 21/02/2018 11:33:49 answering member 4169 label Biography information for Viscount Younger of Leckie attachment 1 file name HL5372 table 090218.xlsx title Table C1
tabling member	2018 label Biography information for Lord Hylton

829564

registered interest
date	24/01/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Student Wastage
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to address the findings of the University Partnerships Programme Foundation and Social Market Foundation report On course for success? Student retention at university with particular reference to the conclusion that students from ethnic minority and disadvantaged backgrounds are more likely to drop out.
tabling member printed	Baroness Hussein-Ece
uin	HL5067
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/02/2018 answer text <p>The government is committed to ensuring that everyone with the potential has the opportunity to benefit from higher education (HE), irrespective of their background. Entry rates to full-time HE for 18 year olds from all ethnic groups increased in 2017, reaching the highest recorded numbers.</p><p> </p><p>There is, however, more to do to ensure that students, including disadvantaged and black and minority ethnic students, are supported both to access higher education and also to participate and succeed. That is why we have taken a number of actions on this.</p><p> </p><p>From April 2018, Access Agreements will be extended and become Access and Participation Plans. This recognises the importance of HE providers supporting both access and participation, including non-continuation and non-completion of courses, and student success for disadvantaged groups. Additionally, the Teaching Excellence and Student Outcomes Framework will use non-continuation rates as a core metric when ascribing Gold, Silver or Bronze status to individual universities. This can be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/teaching-excellence-and-student-outcomes-framework-specification" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/teaching-excellence-and-student-outcomes-framework-specification</a>. Furthermore, the new Transparency Condition created by the Higher Education and Research Act will require many HE providers to publish their completion rates broken down by gender, ethnicity and socio-economic background. Making this data public will expose those providers who are underperforming in this area.</p><p> </p><p>The new regulator for HE, the Office for Students, will also have a statutory duty to have regard to the need to promote equality of opportunity in relation to the whole student lifecycle for disadvantaged and traditionally under-represented groups, not just access.</p> answering member printed Viscount Younger of Leckie question first answered 01/02/2018 17:22:38 answering member 4169 label Biography information for Viscount Younger of Leckie
tabling member	4164 label Biography information for Baroness Hussein-Ece

825652

registered interest
date	18/01/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Nurses: Training
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they have any evidence that difficulties in recruiting UK nationals as nurses reflect changes in the UK's higher education system in recent years.
tabling member printed	Baroness Neville-Rolfe
uin	HL4893
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2018 answer text <p>Until 1 August 2017, nursing, midwifery and allied health profession students had their training costs largely borne by the NHS, and this was not affected by changes to the wider higher education system.</p><p> </p><p>From 1 August 2017, most new undergraduate healthcare students receive tuition fee loans and, for full-time courses, living costs support, administered by the Student Loans Company. The former Department of Health also confirmed that it would fund up to an additional 10,000 clinical placements to support this expansion. These students are in their first year of university study.</p><p> </p><p>These reforms to healthcare student funding will help secure the future supply of nurses to the NHS by removing the artificial cap on training numbers in these professions, and enabling thousands of additional UK applicants to gain a place to study nursing at university.</p> answering member printed Viscount Younger of Leckie question first answered 31/01/2018 13:29:23 answering member 4169 label Biography information for Viscount Younger of Leckie
tabling member	4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe

825271

registered interest
date	17/01/2018
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, further to the Written Answer by the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills on 18 June 2014 (HC 200265), what is their current estimate of the cash value of the income contingent student loan book in real terms for each year to 2050 before the sales of student loans.
tabling member printed	Lord Forsyth of Drumlean
uin	HL4804
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2018 answer text <p>The information is not readily available and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>Later this year the Department for Education will produce an estimate of the cash value of the income contingent student loan book in real terms. We will also produce an estimate of the value of the income contingent student loan book in nominal terms, for each year to 2050, before the sales of student loans.</p> answering member printed Viscount Younger of Leckie grouped question UIN HL4805 HL4806 HL4807 question first answered 31/01/2018 17:45:40 answering member 4169 label Biography information for Viscount Younger of Leckie
tabling member	1141 label Biography information for Lord Forsyth of Drumlean

825272

registered interest
date	17/01/2018
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, further to the Written Answer by the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills on 18 June 2014 (HC 200265), what is their current estimate of the cash value of the income contingent student loan book in real terms for each year to 2050 after the sales of student loans.
tabling member printed	Lord Forsyth of Drumlean
uin	HL4805
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2018 answer text <p>The information is not readily available and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>Later this year the Department for Education will produce an estimate of the cash value of the income contingent student loan book in real terms. We will also produce an estimate of the value of the income contingent student loan book in nominal terms, for each year to 2050, before the sales of student loans.</p> answering member printed Viscount Younger of Leckie grouped question UIN HL4804 HL4806 HL4807 question first answered 31/01/2018 17:45:40 answering member 4169 label Biography information for Viscount Younger of Leckie
tabling member	1141 label Biography information for Lord Forsyth of Drumlean

825273

registered interest
date	17/01/2018
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, further to the Written Answer by the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills on 18 June 2014 (HC 200265), what is their current estimate of the value of the income contingent student loan book in nominal terms for each year to 2050 before the sales of student loans.
tabling member printed	Lord Forsyth of Drumlean
uin	HL4806
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2018 answer text <p>The information is not readily available and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>Later this year the Department for Education will produce an estimate of the cash value of the income contingent student loan book in real terms. We will also produce an estimate of the value of the income contingent student loan book in nominal terms, for each year to 2050, before the sales of student loans.</p> answering member printed Viscount Younger of Leckie grouped question UIN HL4804 HL4805 HL4807 question first answered 31/01/2018 17:45:40 answering member 4169 label Biography information for Viscount Younger of Leckie
tabling member	1141 label Biography information for Lord Forsyth of Drumlean

825274

registered interest
date	17/01/2018
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 further to the Written Answer by the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills on 18 June 2014 (HC 200265), what is their current estimate of the value of the income contingent student loan book in nominal terms for each year to 2050 after the sales of student loans.
tabling member printed	Lord Forsyth of Drumlean
uin	HL4807
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2018 answer text <p>The information is not readily available and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>Later this year the Department for Education will produce an estimate of the cash value of the income contingent student loan book in real terms. We will also produce an estimate of the value of the income contingent student loan book in nominal terms, for each year to 2050, before the sales of student loans.</p> answering member printed Viscount Younger of Leckie grouped question UIN HL4804 HL4805 HL4806 question first answered 31/01/2018 17:45:40 answering member 4169 label Biography information for Viscount Younger of Leckie
tabling member	1141 label Biography information for Lord Forsyth of Drumlean

825319

registered interest
date	17/01/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Degrees: Standards
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how they ensure that there is a consistent and professional level of external examiners appointed for degrees validated by universities but not delivered by those universities.
tabling member printed	Lord Storey
uin	HL4852
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2018 answer text <p>Higher education providers are autonomous organisations and as such, are responsible for validating their degrees for delivery through another institution. These institutions are subject to a rigorous, risk-based approach to quality assurance in line with the UK Quality Code for Higher Education, which applies across all UK providers of higher education. The code sets a clear expectation that higher education providers make scrupulous use of external examiners. The UK Quality Code for Higher Education also establishes the fundamental principle that degree awarding bodies have ultimate responsibility for academic standards and the quality of learning opportunities, regardless of where these opportunities are delivered and who provides them. Further information can be found at: <a href="http://www.qaa.ac.uk/assuring-standards-and-quality/the-quality-code" target="_blank">http://www.qaa.ac.uk/assuring-standards-and-quality/the-quality-code</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Viscount Younger of Leckie question first answered 31/01/2018 13:28:21 answering member 4169 label Biography information for Viscount Younger of Leckie
tabling member	4238 label Biography information for Lord Storey

825320

registered interest
date	17/01/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Degrees: Standards
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether there is clear guidance on the use of the plagiarism checker technology Turnitin by those universities that validate degrees from private and independent colleges.
tabling member printed	Lord Storey
uin	HL4853
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2018 answer text <p>Higher education providers, as autonomous organisations, are responsible for handling matters of this nature, including developing and implementing policies to detect and discourage plagiarism.</p><p> </p><p>Although the government does not provide guidance on, or advocate the use of, plagiarism software to help providers tackle the issue of plagiarism, we asked the Quality Assurance Agency, Universities UK and the National Union of Students to produce new guidance, which was published in October 2017 (see attached document).</p><p> </p><p>This guidance is the first set of comprehensive advice for providers and students on the subject. It makes clear that where providers are working with others to deliver programmes, such as through validation, care should be taken to ensure that partner organisations are taking the risks of academic misconduct seriously. Providers are also encouraged to consider steps to scrutinise potential partners' processes and regulations when developing validation arrangements. This is in line with the wider expectations set out in the UK Quality Code for Higher Education, which all providers must meet. This establishes the fundamental principle that degree awarding bodies have ultimate responsibility for academic standards and the quality of learning opportunities, regardless of where these opportunities are delivered and who provides them. Further information can be found at: <a href="http://www.qaa.ac.uk/assuring-standards-and-quality/the-quality-code" target="_blank">http://www.qaa.ac.uk/assuring-standards-and-quality/the-quality-code</a>.</p><p> </p><p>Going forward I expect the Office for Students to encourage and support the sector to implement strong policies and sanctions to address this important issue in the most robust way possible.</p> answering member printed Viscount Younger of Leckie question first answered 31/01/2018 13:32:41 answering member 4169 label Biography information for Viscount Younger of Leckie attachment 1 file name HL4853 Contracting-to-cheat-in-higher-education.pdf title Contracting to cheat in higher education
tabling member	4238 label Biography information for Lord Storey