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date	01/07/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Numeracy: Nottinghamshire
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent steps his Department has taken to increase the level of numeracy in Nottinghamshire.
tabling member constituency	Mansfield
tabling member printed	Ben Bradley
uin	271589
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2019 answer text <p>The Department is investing to improve Mathematics education from early years through to age 18, so that young people have the right skills for employment, further education and everyday life.</p><p>In early years, the Department is investing £20 million in the Professional Development Programme. This will provide training on language, literacy and numeracy education for pre-reception early years staff in disadvantaged areas, including around 45 settings in Nottinghamshire.</p><p>Since 2014, the Department has funded a network of 35 Maths Hubs across England, including two lead schools in Nottinghamshire (George Spencer Academy and Minster School). The Hubs have sought to improve Mathematics teaching from early years through to post-16. Maths Hubs deliver the £76 million Teaching for Mastery programme, which adapts Mathematics pedagogy from top performing east-Asian jurisdictions to English schools. The programme is funded to reach a total of 11,000 primary and secondary schools across England by 2022. This includes establishing a Mastery Readiness Pogramme for schools in greatest need.</p><p>To further support the transition between primary and secondary school, schools in Nottinghamshire have also received approximately £1.1 million in additional funding to raise levels of literacy and numeracy of Year 7 pupils. Students on a 16 to 18 study programme who have yet to achieve a GCSE grade 4 or above in Mathematics are required to continue to study the subject.</p><p>The Department is funding the £16 million Advanced Mathematics Support Programme to improve and increase provision of, and participation in, AS and A level Mathematics, further Mathematics, and level 3 core Mathematics qualifications, through a range of support to help schools and colleges improve advanced Mathematics teaching.</p><p>In 2018, 77% of pupils in Nottinghamshire local authority met the expected standard for Mathematics at Key Stage 2, which is 1% higher than the England average and up from 70% in 2016 when new tests were introduced.</p><p>At GCSE level, 71.8% of Nottinghamshire local authority’s pupils achieved a grade 9 to 4 at GCSE Mathematics in 2018, which is slightly higher than the figure for 2017. 75.3% of 19 year olds held a GCSE 9 to 4 or other level 2 qualification in 2018, compared to the national average of 75.6%. 23% of academic students took Mathematics A level at the end of Key Stage 5.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 09/07/2019 15:01:45 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4663 label Biography information for Ben Bradley

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registered interest
date	24/06/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Vocational Education: East Midlands
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department is taking to promote technical and vocational education and training in the East Midlands.
tabling member constituency	Mansfield
tabling member printed	Ben Bradley
uin	268545
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2019 answer text <p>Since the publication of the Wolf Review in 2011, the department has implemented an extensive programme of reforms to strengthen technical and applied qualifications. This includes taking forward the recommendations from Lord Sainsbury’s panel on technical education (TE), which will create a world-class technical and vocational education system, offering a real choice of high-quality training.</p><p>Our apprenticeships marketing campaign, Fire It Up, aims to change the way people think about apprenticeships, by showing them as an aspirational choice for those with energy and passion and encouraging everyone to consider them. In addition, the Apprenticeship Support and Knowledge project is a free service provided through the Department for Education, and works with schools to ensure that teachers have the knowledge, support and resources to enable them to promote apprenticeships to their students.</p><p>Alongside apprenticeships, new T levels will raise the prestige of TE and provide students with a high-quality, technical alternative to A levels. We are working closely with the providers selected to deliver T levels in 2020 (including Derby College) to ensure they are ready for first teaching, and have provided them with marketing materials which can be adapted for local use. A communications campaign will launch later this year to raise awareness of T levels, where they can lead and how they fit in with other post-16 choices.</p><p>We have announced the first 12 Institutes of Technology (IoTs) that will be set up across the country to deliver higher TE and training with a particular focus on science, technology, engineering and mathematics subjects. Backed by £170 million of government funding for investing in state-of-the-art equipment and facilities, one of the new IoTs is led by the University of Lincoln in partnership with local further education colleges and employers.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton question first answered 02/07/2019 15:26:43 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
tabling member	4663 label Biography information for Ben Bradley