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1312305

registered interest
date	27/04/2021
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Gender Based Violence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what his policy is on the provision of education on preventing violence against women and girls.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	188107
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2021 answer text <p>It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 29/04/2021 12:18:19 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1312372

registered interest
date	27/04/2021
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what discussions he has had with Public Health England on determining the appropriate size of a bubble in schools during the covid-19 outbreak; and if he will publish the scientific guidance he received ahead of making that decision.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Hallam
tabling member printed	Olivia Blake
uin	188181
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2021 answer text <p>It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 29/04/2021 12:16:35 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4864 label Biography information for Olivia Blake

1311983

registered interest
date	26/04/2021
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Graduates: Employment Schemes
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to introduce an employment support scheme for recent university graduates.
tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
uin	HL15264
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2021 answer text <p>The government recognises that a number of graduates will face particular challenges gaining employment due to the ongoing, adverse impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the UK labour market and economy.</p><p>Our economic priority is to protect jobs and livelihoods, which is why the government has put unprecedented measures in place to protect businesses and jobs. Our extensive support through the furlough scheme, which has been extended to September 2021, the Jobs Support Scheme, grants, loans, and tax cuts has protected thousands of businesses and millions of people.</p><p>The government is doing all it can to help people who are at the start of their career journey. As part of the government’s skills recovery package ‘Plan for Jobs’, we are investing an additional £32 million in the National Careers Service up to March 2022. By the end of financial year 2021-22, this investment will support delivery of individual careers advice for over 500,000 people whose jobs or education have been affected by the pandemic. This represents an increase of 22%. The Service has introduced a range of new initiatives to continue to support all customers, working with a wide range of partners to offer careers guidance activities designed to support employers, furloughed workers, graduates, students, those who have recently lost their jobs, and anyone whose career path has been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Content on the National Careers Service website to support graduates includes information on graduate schemes and internships, sector-specific work experience, virtual work experience, virtual recruitment fairs, volunteering, developing soft skills, finding job vacancies, writing a CV and application form, telephone and video interviews, psychometric testing, using LinkedIn, gap years, and considering further study. On 29 September 2020, we added additional courses to the Skills Toolkit, covering digital, numeracy, and employability skills. The new content includes a range of courses to develop ‘work readiness’ skills that employers value in their new recruits.</p><p>The Department for Work and Pensions is aiming to have a nationwide network of 27,000 Work Coaches in place by the end of March 2021 to support jobseekers and match them with employers who are recruiting.</p><p>Many higher education providers have developed new and innovative ways to support students and graduates who are looking to continue their studies or to prepare for employment. The Department for Education is working with Universities UK, the Association of Graduate Careers Advisory Services, the Institute of Student Employers, the Office for Students, and the sector to understand what more we can do to support graduates who are looking to enter the labour market or continue their studies at this challenging time.</p> answering member printed Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay question first answered 29/04/2021 10:11:46 answering member 4728 label Biography information for Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay
tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

1311766

registered interest
date	23/04/2021
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Postgraduate 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 27 January 2021 to Question 140273, on Postgraduate Education: Coronavirus, whether the Minister of State for Universities plans to make a financial support package of similar value available to PhD students who are not funded through UK Research and Innovation; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	186146
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2021 answer text <p>Providers have flexibility in how they distribute hardship funding to students, in a way that best prioritises those in greatest need. Support can include help for students facing additional costs arising from having to maintain accommodation in more than one location, assistance to help students access teaching remotely or help for students that have already applied for hardship funding previously but need additional support. The funding can be distributed to a wide population of students, including postgraduates (whether taught or research-based) and international students. In addition, we have provided £11 million of quality-related funding provided for universities to support their PhD community, including those not funded via UK Research and Innovation.</p><p>English students are also eligible for the doctoral degree loan and can access one loan up to the maximum amount that was available when they started their course.</p><p>There are no plans to create a financial support package specifically for PhD students who are not funded through UK Research and Innovation, other than the available funding mentioned above.</p> answering member constituency Chippenham answering member printed Michelle Donelan question first answered 28/04/2021 14:22:11 answering member 4530 label Biography information for Michelle Donelan
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1311519

registered interest
date	22/04/2021
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Food: Further Education and Schools
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans his Department has to issue guidance to schools and colleges on offering plant-based food and drink options to pupils.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle
tabling member printed	Emma Hardy
uin	186003
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2021 answer text <p>The government’s School Food Standards regulates the food and drink provided at both lunchtime and at other times of the school day. Beyond this, we believe that head teachers, school governors and caterers are best placed to make decisions about their school food policies, taking into account local circumstances and the needs of their pupils. In doing so, we expect schools to make reasonable adjustments for pupils with particular requirements, for example to reflect dietary and cultural needs.</p><p>The School Food Standards already contain sufficient flexibility to enable schools to provide a variety of plant-based food and drink options to pupils if there is a demand for them. School food policies work best when schools discuss them with parents and pupils, so that parents have the opportunity to raise pupils’ particular dietary needs.</p> answering member constituency Chelmsford answering member printed Vicky Ford question first answered 27/04/2021 14:55:18 answering member 4674 label Biography information for Vicky Ford
tabling member	4645 label Biography information for Emma Hardy

1311174

registered interest
date	21/04/2021
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	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if his Department will make capital investment funding available to universities to expand their physical capacity to support the training of the increased number of students that are due to start nursing degrees in the 2021-22 academic year.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	185371
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/04/2021 answer text <p>We have asked the Office for Students (OfS) to reform the Strategic Priorities Grant for 2021/22 to ensure that more of taxpayers’ money is spent on supporting higher education provision which aligns with national priorities. This includes the reprioritisation of funding towards the provision of high-cost subjects that support the NHS and wider healthcare policy (which includes nursing), high-cost STEM subjects, and subjects meeting specific labour market needs.</p><p>Specifically on capital funding, we want to be assured that capital funding is adding real value and that investment is focused on key government priorities, such as nursing, and supports provision with excellent student outcomes.</p><p>In 2021/22, this funding will be allocated through a bidding process that will target specific high-impact projects and activities that offer better value for money for students and taxpayers.</p><p>The OfS has launched a public consultation on all these reforms before final allocations for 2021/22 are confirmed and will carefully consider the impact of any changes on providers.</p><p>The consultation can be accessed at <a href="https://www.officeforstudents.org.uk/publications/consultations/" target="_blank">https://www.officeforstudents.org.uk/publications/consultations/</a>.</p> answering member constituency Chippenham answering member printed Michelle Donelan grouped question UIN 185372 question first answered 26/04/2021 09:41:34 answering member 4530 label Biography information for Michelle Donelan
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

1311175

registered interest
date	21/04/2021
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	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what support his Department plans to provide to universities to meet the additional (a) educational workforce and (b) physical capacity requirements that will result from the increased number of students embarking on nursing degrees in the 2021-22 academic year.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	185372
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/04/2021 answer text <p>We have asked the Office for Students (OfS) to reform the Strategic Priorities Grant for 2021/22 to ensure that more of taxpayers’ money is spent on supporting higher education provision which aligns with national priorities. This includes the reprioritisation of funding towards the provision of high-cost subjects that support the NHS and wider healthcare policy (which includes nursing), high-cost STEM subjects, and subjects meeting specific labour market needs.</p><p>Specifically on capital funding, we want to be assured that capital funding is adding real value and that investment is focused on key government priorities, such as nursing, and supports provision with excellent student outcomes.</p><p>In 2021/22, this funding will be allocated through a bidding process that will target specific high-impact projects and activities that offer better value for money for students and taxpayers.</p><p>The OfS has launched a public consultation on all these reforms before final allocations for 2021/22 are confirmed and will carefully consider the impact of any changes on providers.</p><p>The consultation can be accessed at <a href="https://www.officeforstudents.org.uk/publications/consultations/" target="_blank">https://www.officeforstudents.org.uk/publications/consultations/</a>.</p> answering member constituency Chippenham answering member printed Michelle Donelan grouped question UIN 185371 question first answered 26/04/2021 09:41:35 answering member 4530 label Biography information for Michelle Donelan
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

1310733

registered interest
date	20/04/2021
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Teachers: Training
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what additional training his Department has offered to teachers on (a) assessing and (b) moderating (i) GCSE and (ii) A-Level exam papers in the 2020-21 academic year.
tabling member constituency	St Albans
tabling member printed	Daisy Cooper
uin	184551
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2021 answer text <p>The Joint Council for Qualifications has published clear guidance for centres to support them to determine teacher assessed grades. The guidance provides detailed information to schools and colleges on the grading process and the different factors that need to be accounted for. Teachers have the flexibility to use a range of evidence to determine students’ grades, including the use of optional questions provided by exam boards.</p><p>The sets of questions with mark schemes were provided to centres on 31 March 2021. Exemplar responses were provided to centres on 12 April, to assist teachers with marking these questions and making fair, objective, and consistent judgements of the standard of a student’s performance. The sets of questions were made openly available on 19 April.</p><p>In addition to the guidance and the assessment materials, exam boards have provided grade descriptors and exemplification materials to support teachers in making an evidence-based judgement of the grade at which each student is performing. This will ensure that there is a common basis to all teacher assessed grades.</p><p>To ensure qualifications are fair, students will be assessed only on what they have been taught. Centres can draw on a range of evidence to make their assessment. This range and flexibility in the assessment approach means that qualifications cannot be moderated in the way, for example, that non-examined assessments can be in normal years. We trust teachers to make judgements of the grades reflected by their students’ evidence. They are best placed to understand their students’ performance. To support teachers, exam boards will check centres’ approaches to assessment and provide external quality assurance, including the review of a sample of grades. Head teachers will also have to sign a head of centre declaration form to confirm they support the grades submitted. Parents and pupils can have confidence in the grades awarded this summer. As set out in the guidance, this year’s quality assurance process is not designed to moderate grades but will support teachers to do what is needed and ensure centres adhere to the exam boards’ requirements, in order to ensure outcomes are as consistent as possible.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 27/04/2021 14:16:42 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4769 label Biography information for Daisy Cooper

1310206

registered interest
date	19/04/2021
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children in Care: Prison Sentences
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, on average how many looked after children have received custodial sentences in each of the last 10 years.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	183149
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/04/2021 answer text <p>The information held by the department covers children aged 10 years or over, who were looked after for at least 12 months, who were convicted or subject to youth cautions, or youth conditional cautions during each year. The figures are shown in the table below:</p><p><strong>Number of children aged 10 years or over who were looked after for at least 12 months who were convicted or subject to youth cautions, or youth conditional cautions during the year in England<strong>[1]</strong></strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year ending 31 March</p></td><td><p>Number looked after for at least 12 months aged 10 to 17 at 31 March[2]</p></td><td><p>Number convicted or subject to youth cautions, or youth conditional cautions during the year[2]</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020</p></td><td><p>39,620</p></td><td><p>1,160</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019</p></td><td><p>38,090</p></td><td><p>1,280</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018</p></td><td><p>36,730</p></td><td><p>1,510</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>35,090</p></td><td><p>1,590</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>33,120</p></td><td><p>1,640</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>31,800</p></td><td><p>1,630</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>30,650</p></td><td><p>1,690</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>29,840</p></td><td><p>1,830</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>29,790</p></td><td><p>2,070</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>30,280</p></td><td><p>2,200</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: SSDA903</p><p> </p><p>The latest information on children looked after in England is contained in the ‘Children looked after in England’ statistics release, which is available here: <a href="https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/children-looked-after-in-england-including-adoptions" target="_blank">https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/children-looked-after-in-england-including-adoptions</a>.</p><p> </p><p>[1] Figures include children aged 10 to 17 years who have been continuously looked after for at least 12 months as at 31 March. Figures exclude children who were looked after under an agreed series of short-term placements.</p><p>[2] Numbers have been rounded to the nearest 10.</p> answering member constituency Chelmsford answering member printed Vicky Ford question first answered 22/04/2021 15:23:55 answering member 4674 label Biography information for Vicky Ford
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

1310210

registered interest
date	19/04/2021
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Teachers: Labour Turnover
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the recent National Education Union polling showing that one in three teachers in the UK plans to leave the profession within five years.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	183150
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/04/2021 answer text <p>It is a top priority of the Government to ensure that we continue to attract, retain and support the great teachers we need to educate the next generation. The Government is moving forward with delivery of the Teacher Recruitment and Retention Strategy that was published in January 2019. This includes commitments to reduce teacher workload, improve continuing professional development, and create greater opportunities for flexible working.</p><p>We have started to roll out the Early Career Framework (ECF) – the biggest teaching reform in a generation – providing the foundations for a successful career in teaching, backed by up to £130 million a year in funding when fully rolled out. Early roll-out began in autumn 2020 and is taking place in selected areas: the North East, Greater Manchester, Bradford, and Doncaster.</p><p>The new initial teacher training (ITT) Core Content Framework, which was implemented from September 2020, is a mandatory core minimum entitlement for all trainees and will work coherently with the ECF to ensure all new teachers benefit from at least 3 years of evidence-based training, across ITT and into induction.</p><p>We are also launching new National Professional Qualifications from September 2021, offering high-quality professional development for teachers and school leaders at all levels, from those who want to develop expertise in specialist areas of teaching practice, to those leading multiple schools across trusts.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 22/04/2021 15:14:28 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis