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1171702

registered interest
date	20/01/2020
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Further Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State Education, what recent discussions he has had with the Home Secretary on the potential effect of the Government's proposed immigration legislation on tertiary education.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	900253
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/01/2020 answer text <p>The Department remains closely engaged with the Home Office around the future immigration system, its design and its impact on tertiary education.</p><p>Officials are involved in a number of cross-Whitehall meetings on system design, and attend the Education Sector Forum where the sector shares their views directly with the Home Office.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 20/01/2020 17:48:06 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

1171755

registered interest
date	20/01/2020
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Education: Standards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What steps his Department is taking to improve quality and choice in the provision of (a) further and (b) higher education.
tabling member constituency	Cheadle
tabling member printed	Mary Robinson
uin	900256
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/01/2020 answer text <p>We are increasing funding to improve participation for 16 to 19 year olds, introducing T-Levels, investing in further education (FE) and providing support for college improvement.</p><p>The Office for Students and Ofsted hold higher education and FE providers to account for delivering quality and successful outcomes.</p><p>The Teaching Excellence and Student Outcomes Framework incentivises quality teaching, and new digital tools support student choice.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 20/01/2020 17:46:20 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	4406 label Biography information for Mary Robinson

1171756

registered interest
date	20/01/2020
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Special Educational Needs: Primary Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What estimate he has made of the number of primary school children receiving specialist educational support following an acquired brain injury.
tabling member constituency	Rhondda
tabling member printed	Chris Bryant
uin	900257
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/01/2020 answer text <p>We do not collect this data, but the special educational needs system is designed to put in the right support for children irrespective of their condition. We are committed to driving up the quality of this support across the country, including through an extra £780 million high needs funding next year.</p> answering member constituency Chippenham answering member printed Michelle Donelan question first answered 20/01/2020 17:27:28 answering member 4530 label Biography information for Michelle Donelan
tabling member	1446 label Biography information for Sir Chris Bryant

1171757

registered interest
date	20/01/2020
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Special Educational Needs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What steps he is taking to ensure that children with special educational needs are able to access support services close to home.
tabling member constituency	Newton Abbot
tabling member printed	Anne Marie Morris
uin	900258
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/01/2020 answer text <p>Most children and young people with special educational needs or disabilities access support in their local area. We have allocated £365 million capital funding to local authorities from 2018 to 2021 for them to enhance the facilities and the number of places available locally to those with SEND.</p> answering member constituency Chippenham answering member printed Michelle Donelan question first answered 20/01/2020 17:29:38 answering member 4530 label Biography information for Michelle Donelan
tabling member	4249 label Biography information for Anne Marie Morris

1171758

registered interest
date	20/01/2020
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	What recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of local authority funding for children’s services.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
uin	900259
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/01/2020 answer text <p>The Government is providing councils with an additional £1 billion for adults’ and children’s social care in every year of this Parliament. This is on top of the continuation of the £410 million social care grant in 2020-21. This will support local authorities to meet rising demand.</p> answering member constituency Chippenham answering member printed Michelle Donelan question first answered 20/01/2020 17:30:36 answering member 4530 label Biography information for Michelle Donelan
tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft

1171759

registered interest
date	20/01/2020
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Special Educational Needs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What steps he is taking to support children with special educational needs.
tabling member constituency	Meon Valley
tabling member printed	Mrs Flick Drummond
uin	900260
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/01/2020 answer text <p>To help ensure those with special educational needs get the right support we have, for example:</p><ul><li>provided an extra £780 million high needs funding next year, bringing the total for those with the most complex needs to £7.2 billion; and</li><li>launched a major review of the SEND system. We will update on progress shortly.</li></ul> answering member constituency Chippenham answering member printed Michelle Donelan grouped question UIN 900262 question first answered 20/01/2020 17:33:05 answering member 4530 label Biography information for Michelle Donelan
tabling member	4459 label Biography information for Mrs Flick Drummond

1171760

registered interest
date	20/01/2020
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pupils: Per Capita Costs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What plans the Government has to increase the level of per pupil funding.
tabling member constituency	Gedling
tabling member printed	Tom Randall
uin	900261
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/01/2020 answer text <p>Next year, our National Funding Formula is delivering an average increase in per pupil funding of 4.2%, while ensuring that pupil-led funding for every school can rise at least in line with inflation. We are levelling up the lowest funding schools to receive minimum per pupil amounts of £3,750 at primary and £5,000 at secondary.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 20/01/2020 17:32:29 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4845 label Biography information for Tom Randall

1171761

registered interest
date	20/01/2020
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Special Educational Needs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What steps he is taking to support children with special educational needs.
tabling member constituency	Hyndburn
tabling member printed	Sara Britcliffe
uin	900262
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/01/2020 answer text <p>To help ensure those with special educational needs get the right support we have, for example:</p><ul><li>provided an extra £780 million high needs funding next year, bringing the total for those with the most complex needs to £7.2 billion; and</li><li>launched a major review of the SEND system. We will update on progress shortly.</li></ul> answering member constituency Chippenham answering member printed Michelle Donelan grouped question UIN 900260 question first answered 20/01/2020 17:33:05 answering member 4530 label Biography information for Michelle Donelan
tabling member	4838 label Biography information for Sara Britcliffe

1171845

registered interest
date	20/01/2020
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Epilepsy: Drugs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, for what reasons epilepsy is allocated one point in the General Medical Services Statement of Financial Entitlements (Amendment) Directions 2019; and what steps GPs take to ensure that women of child bearing age who are prescribed Valporate are enrolled in a pregnancy prevention programme.
tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
tabling member printed	Cat Smith
uin	5459
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2020 answer text <p>Changes to the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF)- including allocation of points- are agreed as part of wider amendments to the General Medical Services (GMS) Contract. These changes are negotiated by NHS England and the British Medical Association’s (BMA) General Practitioners Committee England. Guidance on the 2019/20 GMS Contract concerning the QOF was published by the BMA and NHS England in April 2019. This guidance includes an epilepsy indicator which states that ‘the contractor establishes and maintains a register of patients aged 18 or over receiving drug treatment for epilepsy’. QOF points are generally weighted to the estimated workload associated with an indicator. Registers generally incur a lower workload than other indicators and therefore tend to attract a lower points value than other types of indicators.</p><p> </p><p>Care of patients with long term conditions in general practice is described in the essential services element of the contract and funded through the global sum payment. Patients should expect to receive high quality care irrespective of whether or not their condition is included in the QOF. The QOF indicators will continued to be reviewed going forward.</p><p> </p><p>It is a Care Quality Commission regulatory requirement for general practitioners (GPs) to follow the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency’s (MHRA) guidance on valproate prescribing. The MHRA advises that ‘Valproate medicines must no longer be used in women or girls of childbearing potential unless a Pregnancy Prevention Programme is in place’.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England are also taking broader action to support implementation of the MHRA pregnancy prevention guidelines. In April 2019, they introduced a new Quality Improvement module on prescribing safety into the QOF. As part of this module they expect practices to audit three measures, one of which is that girls and women of childbearing potential currently being prescribed valproate have had an annual specialist medication review and are taking this in compliance with the pregnancy prevention programme as documented by a specialist in the annual risk acknowledgement form. It is the responsibility of every healthcare professional involved in the prescribing and dispensing of valproate medicines to make sure women are aware of the risks and are on the pregnancy prevention programme.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill grouped question UIN 5460 question first answered 23/01/2020 17:19:31 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

1171846

registered interest
date	20/01/2020
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Epilepsy: Drugs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, for what reasons no points have been allocated to ongoing management for epilepsy medication in the General Medical Services contract Quality and Outcomes Framework.
tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
tabling member printed	Cat Smith
uin	5460
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2020 answer text <p>Changes to the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF)- including allocation of points- are agreed as part of wider amendments to the General Medical Services (GMS) Contract. These changes are negotiated by NHS England and the British Medical Association’s (BMA) General Practitioners Committee England. Guidance on the 2019/20 GMS Contract concerning the QOF was published by the BMA and NHS England in April 2019. This guidance includes an epilepsy indicator which states that ‘the contractor establishes and maintains a register of patients aged 18 or over receiving drug treatment for epilepsy’. QOF points are generally weighted to the estimated workload associated with an indicator. Registers generally incur a lower workload than other indicators and therefore tend to attract a lower points value than other types of indicators.</p><p> </p><p>Care of patients with long term conditions in general practice is described in the essential services element of the contract and funded through the global sum payment. Patients should expect to receive high quality care irrespective of whether or not their condition is included in the QOF. The QOF indicators will continued to be reviewed going forward.</p><p> </p><p>It is a Care Quality Commission regulatory requirement for general practitioners (GPs) to follow the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency’s (MHRA) guidance on valproate prescribing. The MHRA advises that ‘Valproate medicines must no longer be used in women or girls of childbearing potential unless a Pregnancy Prevention Programme is in place’.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England are also taking broader action to support implementation of the MHRA pregnancy prevention guidelines. In April 2019, they introduced a new Quality Improvement module on prescribing safety into the QOF. As part of this module they expect practices to audit three measures, one of which is that girls and women of childbearing potential currently being prescribed valproate have had an annual specialist medication review and are taking this in compliance with the pregnancy prevention programme as documented by a specialist in the annual risk acknowledgement form. It is the responsibility of every healthcare professional involved in the prescribing and dispensing of valproate medicines to make sure women are aware of the risks and are on the pregnancy prevention programme.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill grouped question UIN 5459 question first answered 23/01/2020 17:19:31 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith