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1201711

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date	09/06/2020
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Apprentices: Shipping
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will make it his policy to increase the number of seafarer apprentices.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle
tabling member printed	Emma Hardy
uin	57334
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/06/2020 answer text <p>Employers are at the heart of our reforms to apprenticeships, which include designing high-quality standards that deliver the skills that employers need and determining which apprenticeships employers offer and when they offer them. Over 550 employer-designed standards are now available and standards developed by the maritime sector include Able Seafarer at level 2, Maritime Operations Officer at level 3 and Marine Pilot at level 5. We announced in October 2018 that all new starts would be on these high-quality standards from 1 August 2020 and almost 75% of new apprenticeship starts are now on standards.</p><p>In response to the COVID-19 outbreak, we have introduced a broad range of flexibilities, including encouraging the remote delivery of apprenticeships, in order to ensure that apprentices can continue with their learning as far as possible and to support the continued take up of apprenticeships by employers. The Marine Pilot Standard is one of the standards where flexibilities to the end point assessment have been agreed.</p><p>Apprenticeships will have an important role to play in creating employment opportunities, particularly for young people, and in supporting employers in all sectors to access the skilled workforce that they need to recover and grow, following the COVID-19 outbreak. We are looking to support employers of all sizes, and particularly smaller businesses, to take on new apprentices this year. We will set out further details in due course. We will also ensure that there is sufficient funding to support small businesses that want to take on an apprentice this year.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Chichester answering member printed Gillian Keegan question first answered 15/06/2020 13:18:25 answering member 4680 label Biography information for Gillian Keegan
tabling member	4645 label Biography information for Emma Hardy

1201712

registered interest
date	09/06/2020
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Apprentices: Transport
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he is taking to increase the number of apprentices in all sectors of the transport industry over the next five years.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle
tabling member printed	Emma Hardy
uin	57335
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/06/2020 answer text <p>We are working closely with intermediary bodies in the transport sector to promote apprenticeships to 55,000 employer members. This includes through campaigns, events and school and college partnerships. The National Skills Academy for Rail is supporting employers in the sector to develop new apprenticeship standards, ensuring employers identify the skills they need for the future. Transport sector ambassadors are also engaging intermediary bodies to foster commitment to apprenticeship delivery in the transport sector.</p><p>Apprenticeships will have an important role to play in creating employment opportunities, particularly for young people, and supporting employers in all sectors, including transport, to access the skilled workforce they need to recover and grow post COVID-19. We are looking to support employers of all sizes, and particularly smaller businesses to take on new apprentices this year. We will set out further details in due course. We will also ensure that there is sufficient funding to support small businesses wanting to take on an apprentice this year.</p><p>We continue to work closely with the Department for Transport to support apprentices in the aviation and aerospace sector.</p> answering member constituency Chichester answering member printed Gillian Keegan question first answered 15/06/2020 15:21:44 answering member 4680 label Biography information for Gillian Keegan
tabling member	4645 label Biography information for Emma Hardy

1201713

registered interest
date	09/06/2020
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Further Education: Shipping
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what support his Department provided to maritime training colleges in England in each of the last five years for which data is available.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle
tabling member printed	Emma Hardy
uin	57336
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/06/2020 answer text <p>The government funds a range of study programmes for 16 to 19 year olds, and via the Adult Education Budget (AEB), to help learners gain the skills they need to get into and progress in work, an apprenticeship or further learning. Additional funding is available to support apprenticeships.</p><p>Within this, funding is available for particular qualifications related to maritime studies, but in general the government does not separately allocate funding to maritime training colleges as they are a part of different institutions.</p><p>Education and Skills Funding Agency funding allocations, for each institution, are published on GOV.UK for 16 to 19 (<a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/16-to-19-education-funding-allocations?mxmroi=2305-8593-35041-0#published-allocations" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/16-to-19-education-funding-allocations?mxmroi=2305-8593-35041-0#published-allocations</a>) and AEB (<a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/19-funding-allocations" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/19-funding-allocations</a>).</p> answering member constituency Chichester answering member printed Gillian Keegan grouped question UIN 57337 question first answered 15/06/2020 16:21:39 answering member 4680 label Biography information for Gillian Keegan
tabling member	4645 label Biography information for Emma Hardy

1201771

registered interest
date	09/06/2020
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Free School Meals: Voucher Schemes
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the free school meal national voucher scheme, whether (a) Edenred's contract as the Government's supplier will be renewed or (b) there will be a competitive tendering process after 21 June 2020.
tabling member constituency	Preston
tabling member printed	Sir Mark Hendrick
uin	57098
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/07/2020 answer text <p>Provision for free school meals is ordinarily term time only. However, owing to the COVID-19 outbreak, the government understands that children and parents face an entirely unprecedented situation this summer. To reflect this, the Edenred contract was extended to enable free school meal provision until the end of the summer term (through the national voucher scheme) and to support the Covid Summer Food Fund.</p><p>The free school meal vouchers contract was extended on 22 June following ministerial direction to extend the contract to cover the summer holiday period. In order to ensure families receive the support they needed in a timely manner, the department did not have sufficient time to run a competitive procurement for the extension. The extension did not make any substantial changes to the extant contract as defined by PCR Reg 72(1)(e).</p> answering member constituency Chelmsford answering member printed Vicky Ford question first answered 01/07/2020 17:18:04 answering member 4674 label Biography information for Vicky Ford
tabling member	473 label Biography information for Sir Mark Hendrick

1201811

registered interest
date	09/06/2020
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Students: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether his Department has plans to reimburse students that have paid deposits on (a) private and (b) university housing for the 2020-21 academic year and whose education may be disrupted as a result of the covid-19 outbreak.
tabling member constituency	Wolverhampton South West
tabling member printed	Stuart Anderson
uin	57372
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/06/2020 answer text <p>As both my right hon. Friends, the Prime Minister and Chancellor of the Exchequer have made clear, the government will do whatever it takes to support people affected by COVID-19.</p><p>The government encourages universities and private hall providers to be fair in their decisions about accommodation charges for this period.</p><p> </p><p>Information published by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) gives guidance (<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/cma-to-investigate-concerns-about-cancellation-policies-during-the-coronavirus-covid-19-pandemic/the-coronavirus-covid-19-pandemic-consumer-contracts-cancellation-and-refunds" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/cma-to-investigate-concerns-about-cancellation-policies-during-the-coronavirus-covid-19-pandemic/the-coronavirus-covid-19-pandemic-consumer-contracts-cancellation-and-refunds</a>) on the COVID-19 outbreak’s effects on consumer contracts and may be helpful to students, including those who have already paid deposits for accommodation.</p><p>The guidance sets out the CMA’s view on how the law operates to help consumers understand their rights and to help businesses treat their customers fairly. Students may be entitled to refunds from certain accommodation providers depending on the terms of their contract and their particular circumstances. If students need help, organisations such as Citizens Advice offer a free service, providing information and support.</p><p>Students who have already signed an accommodation contract for next year and, because of COVID-19, think it may no longer fit their requirements, should talk directly to their housing provider.</p><p> </p><p>If a student thinks that their accommodation provider is treating them unfairly, they can raise a complaint under the accommodation codes of practice as long as their provider is a code member. The codes can be found at: <a href="https://www.thesac.org.uk/" target="_blank">https://www.thesac.org.uk/</a>; <a href="https://www.unipol.org.uk/the-code/how-to-complain" target="_blank">https://www.unipol.org.uk/the-code/how-to-complain</a> and: <a href="https://www.rla.org.uk/about/nrla-code-of-practice.shtml" target="_blank">https://www.rla.org.uk/about/nrla-code-of-practice.shtml</a>.</p><p> </p><p>We have worked closely with the Office for Students to enable higher education (HE) providers to draw on existing funding to increase hardship funds and support disadvantaged students impacted by COVID-19. As a result, providers will be able to use the funding worth around £23 million per month for June and July, towards student hardship funds.</p><p><br> We have also asked that HE providers pay particular attention to the additional financial hardships that are being faced by student staff who have been reliant on income from campus-based jobs at this time.</p> answering member constituency Chippenham answering member printed Michelle Donelan question first answered 17/06/2020 15:43:57 answering member 4530 label Biography information for Michelle Donelan
tabling member	4742 label Biography information for Stuart Anderson

1201816

registered interest
date	09/06/2020
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	History: Curriculum
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will make it his policy to include in the school curriculum mandatory lessons on (a) black history and (b) UK colonial history.
tabling member constituency	Ealing Central and Acton
tabling member printed	Dr Rupa Huq
uin	57301
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/06/2020 answer text <p>The Department is committed to an inclusive education system which recognises and embraces diversity and supports all pupils and students to tackle racism and have the knowledge and tools to do so.</p><p>The national curriculum is a framework setting out the content of what the Department expects schools to cover in each subject. The curriculum does not set out how curriculum subjects, or topics within the subjects, should be taught. The Department believes teachers should be able to use their own knowledge and expertise to determine how they teach their pupils, and to make choices about what they teach.</p><p>As part of a broad and balanced curriculum, pupils should be taught about different societies, and how different groups have contributed to the development of Britain, and this can include the voices and experience of Black people. The flexibility within the history curriculum means that there is the opportunity for teachers to teach about Black history across the spectrum of themes and eras set out in the curriculum. For example, at Key Stage 1, schools can teach about the lives of key Black historical figures such as Mary Seacole and Rosa Parks or others; and at Key Stage 3, cover the development and end of the British Empire and Britain’s transatlantic slave trade, its effects and its eventual abolition. The teaching of Black history need not be limited to these examples.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 15/06/2020 16:22:51 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4511 label Biography information for Dr Rupa Huq

1201827

registered interest
date	09/06/2020
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 findings of the report published by Barnardo's, the Children's Society, Action for Children, the NSPCC and the National Children's Bureau entitled Children and young people’s services: Funding and spending 2010-11 to 2017-18, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of funding for children's services.
tabling member constituency	Rother Valley
tabling member printed	Alexander Stafford
uin	57408
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/06/2020 answer text <p>The government announced at the Local Government Finance Settlement that English councils' core spending power is rising by over £2.9 billion this financial year. This includes £1 billion of new grant funding that can be used flexibly by local authorities to deliver adult and children’s social care services.</p><p>Further to this, the government has provided over £3.2 billion of additional funding to support local authorities in meeting COVID-19 related pressures, including within children’s services. We will keep this under review over the coming weeks and months.</p><p>Longer term funding considerations are a matter for the next Spending Review.</p> answering member constituency Chelmsford answering member printed Vicky Ford question first answered 17/06/2020 15:45:18 answering member 4674 label Biography information for Vicky Ford
tabling member	4866 label Biography information for Alexander Stafford

1201857

registered interest
date	09/06/2020
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Further Education: Shipping
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what funding his Department has allocated to maritime training colleges in England in each of the last five years for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle
tabling member printed	Emma Hardy
uin	57337
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/06/2020 answer text <p>The government funds a range of study programmes for 16 to 19 year olds, and via the Adult Education Budget (AEB), to help learners gain the skills they need to get into and progress in work, an apprenticeship or further learning. Additional funding is available to support apprenticeships.</p><p>Within this, funding is available for particular qualifications related to maritime studies, but in general the government does not separately allocate funding to maritime training colleges as they are a part of different institutions.</p><p>Education and Skills Funding Agency funding allocations, for each institution, are published on GOV.UK for 16 to 19 (<a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/16-to-19-education-funding-allocations?mxmroi=2305-8593-35041-0#published-allocations" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/16-to-19-education-funding-allocations?mxmroi=2305-8593-35041-0#published-allocations</a>) and AEB (<a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/19-funding-allocations" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/19-funding-allocations</a>).</p> answering member constituency Chichester answering member printed Gillian Keegan grouped question UIN 57336 question first answered 15/06/2020 16:21:39 answering member 4680 label Biography information for Gillian Keegan
tabling member	4645 label Biography information for Emma Hardy

1201865

registered interest
date	09/06/2020
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Private Education: Coronavirus
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 4 June 2020 to Question 51707 on Private Education: Coronavirus, whether independent schools are permitted to reopen for year 8 pupils when that is their final year before moving on to secondary education.
tabling member constituency	Hemel Hempstead
tabling member printed	Sir Mike Penning
uin	57102
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/06/2020 answer text <p>The Department has asked primary schools to welcome back children in nursery, Reception, year 1 and year 6, alongside priority groups. Where primary and middle schools have already made provision for these children and where they have capacity, they may choose to welcome back additional pupils, in line with wider protective measures. It is up to schools to decide which pupils to prioritise, based on their knowledge of their children and communities.</p><p>Where middle schools choose to invite year 8 pupils back, they should be confident they can manage this within the strict measures the Department has asked primary schools to adopt. This includes having no more than 15 pupils in a class, and maintaining consistency of these groups. This guidance covers independent schools where year 8 pupils are in their final year before moving on to another school.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 17/06/2020 16:00:37 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning

1201894

registered interest
date	09/06/2020
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Further Education: Assessments
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he is taking to ensure that practical exams or assignments to assess the skills and safety of students that were due to take place in further education settings are able to take place.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	57273
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/06/2020 answer text <p>It is imperative that as many students as possible receive their results this summer so they can progress to the next stage in education or employment. The department has been working closely with Ofqual to agree how this can be done. Some results will be calculated and some assessments will be adapted. Where a qualification is used to signal occupational competence, the assessments may need to be delayed, in which case they should be completed as soon as possible.</p><p>Ofqual has published its framework for the awarding of results for vocational and technical qualifications: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/exceptional-arrangements-for-assessment-and-grading-in-2020" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/exceptional-arrangements-for-assessment-and-grading-in-2020</a>. This framework sets out what awarding organisations must do to provide results for students who were due to take assessments this summer.</p><p>Ofqual and awarding organisations are working with schools, colleges and other providers to implement these measures. Ofqual has also published an online interactive tool - <a href="https://analytics.ofqual.gov.uk/apps/AllQualifications/summer2020tool/" target="_blank">https://analytics.ofqual.gov.uk/apps/AllQualifications/summer2020tool/</a> - which contains information on how results will be generated for individual qualifications.</p> answering member constituency Chichester answering member printed Gillian Keegan question first answered 15/06/2020 12:40:33 answering member 4680 label Biography information for Gillian Keegan
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell