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1455288

registered interest
date	29/03/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Special Educational Needs: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much (a) public money has been made available to fund SEND provision in English (i) mainstream and (ii) special schools in each of the last fifteen years and (b) he has budgeted to provide for each of those purposes in each of the next three financial years.
tabling member constituency	Houghton and Sunderland South
tabling member printed	Bridget Phillipson
uin	149231
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/04/2022 answer text <p>The department makes available funding for special educational needs and disability (SEND) provision though the Dedicated Schools Grant (DSG) to local authorities. Within the DSG, the majority of funding is for mainstream schools. When allocating funding to mainstream schools, local authorities indicate a notional amount that is for pupils with special educational needs, but schools decide how much of their overall budgets to spend supporting those pupils. The department does not collect that information from schools.</p><p>The DSG also includes high needs funding for children and young people with more complex SEND. Local authorities use their high needs budgets to provide additional funding to mainstream schools, for these pupils, and to fund special schools.</p><p>Table 1 below shows the amounts of high needs funding the department has made available to local authorities. This table goes back to the 2015/16 financial year. Figures for earlier years are either not comparable or not available because of the way that the DSG was allocated prior to 2015/16.</p><p>Table 1</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Financial year</p></td><td><p>Total high needs block funding (£ million)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>5,247</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016-17</p></td><td><p>5,300</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017-18</p></td><td><p>5,827</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018-19</p></td><td><p>6,115</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019-20</p></td><td><p>6,279</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020-21</p></td><td><p>7,063</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2021-22</p></td><td><p>7,906</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2022-23 (Provisional, including supplementary funding)</p></td><td><p>8,981</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Of the above amounts of high needs funding, local authorities have told us how much they have made available to mainstream schools and special schools in budget statements provided to the department under section 251 of the Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009. These amounts are set out in table 2 below. Table 2 does not include high needs funding that local authorities have made available for under 5 year olds, and for young people in further education and alternative provision: these categories of planned expenditure are included in the amounts in table 1.</p><p>Table 2</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Financial year</p></td><td><p>Mainstream primary and secondary schools (£ million)</p></td><td><p>Special schools (£ million)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>1,254</p></td><td><p>2,912</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>1,308</p></td><td><p>2,978</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017/18</p></td><td><p>1,348</p></td><td><p>3,126</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018/19</p></td><td><p>1,443</p></td><td><p>3,448</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019/20</p></td><td><p>1,483</p></td><td><p>3,788</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020/21</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2021/22</p></td><td><p>2,063</p></td><td><p>4,517</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Due to some categories of expenditure changed from year to year, the amounts in the table above are not on a precise like-for-like basis. In view of the COVID-19 pandemic, the department did not collect this information from local authorities in the 2020/21 financial year.</p><p> </p><p>Local authorities have not yet advised the department of their planned high needs expenditure in the 2022/23 financial year. Neither the department nor local authorities have yet budgeted for high needs spending in the 2023/24 and 2024/25 financial years.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 19/04/2022 14:37:14 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4046 label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson

1455289

registered interest
date	29/03/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	T-levels: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what funding he (a) has made available in (i) each of the last five financial years and (ii) the 2021-22 financial year and (b) plans to make available in the (A) next financial year and (B) subsequent three financial years for the purpose of ensuring a successful transition between BTECs and T-Levels.
tabling member constituency	Houghton and Sunderland South
tabling member printed	Bridget Phillipson
uin	149232
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/04/2022 answer text <p>The department recognises that significant additional funding will be needed for the successful introduction and delivery of T Levels. We announced in 2017 that T Level programmes would be backed by up to an additional £500 million of investment every year when fully rolled out. Some of this additional £500 million is included in the £1.6 billion extra announced for 16-19 funding by the 2024/25 financial year, compared with the 2021/22 financial year, in the recent Spending Review.</p><p>We have made available £268 million in capital funding for the first three waves of T Level delivery, starting in September 2020, 2021, and 2022. This funding is being used to improve the quality of facilities and equipment that will be used to deliver T Levels. Eligible providers will also be able to access training to help prepare their teachers and leaders.</p><p>As set out in the table below, we have also allocated £207.6 million to help the sector build capacity for T Level industry placements and deliver placements to students on existing programmes. From the 2020/21 academic year, we have allocated £3.2 million in industry placement funding for those on T Level programmes. In addition, T Levels include more teaching hours and are more prescriptive in the content than general 16-19 study programmes. Therefore, four larger bands have been added to the 16-19 funding bands to ensure T level providers receive the additional funding required.</p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="5"><p><strong>Academic Years</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Funding stream</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2017/18</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2018/19</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2019/20</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2020/21</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2021/22</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Totals to date</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Capacity and delivery funding</strong></p></td><td><p>£0</p></td><td><p>£57.4m</p></td><td><p>£53.6m</p></td><td><p>£52.2m</p></td><td><p>£44.4m</p></td><td><p>£207.6m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Industry placement funding</strong></p></td><td><p>£0</p></td><td><p>£0</p></td><td><p>£0</p></td><td><p>£0.5m</p></td><td><p>£2.7m</p></td><td><p>£3.2m</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The funding data for the financial years 2022/23, 2023/24 and 2024/25 is not yet available.</p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart question first answered 19/04/2022 11:07:03 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
tabling member	4046 label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson

1455400

registered interest
date	29/03/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Eating Disorders
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of the National Curriculum on disordered eating.
tabling member constituency	Putney
tabling member printed	Fleur Anderson
uin	149404
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/04/2022 answer text <p>The department has no plans to assess the impact of the curriculum on disordered eating, but the white paper is clear that ensuring pupils are taught a broad and ambitious curriculum, which also supports their health, wellbeing, and wider development, is crucial, particularly as we recover from the pandemic.</p><p>Body image and mental wellbeing are explicitly covered in the relationships, sex, and health education curriculum and, at secondary level, teachers may choose to discuss disordered eating when teaching these topics. Although schools are not medical professionals, it is important that school staff understand eating disorders to inform the pastoral support that they offer to pupils and when to seek specialist support where it is needed.</p><p>To support this, the government’s £8 million for the ‘Wellbeing for Education Return’ programme funded advisers in every local authority in England. Further information on this can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/wellbeing-for-education-return-grant-s31-grant-determination-letter" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/wellbeing-for-education-return-grant-s31-grant-determination-letter</a>. This is reaching up to 15,000 schools with free expert training, support, and resources for education staff to help them understand and respond to the mental wellbeing issues faced by children and young people.</p><p>The department has provided an additional £7 million in 2021/22 financial year to extend this with an additional focus on directing schools towards the right local support.</p> answering member constituency Worcester answering member printed Mr Robin Walker question first answered 06/04/2022 08:41:51 answering member 4091 label Biography information for Mr Robin Walker
tabling member	4788 label Biography information for Fleur Anderson

1454923

registered interest
date	28/03/2022
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	Pupils: Mental Illness
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department has made of the number of school aged pupils experiencing a mental health issue; and how that figure informed the additional £79 million investment in specialist mental health support pledged in the Opportunity for All White Paper.
tabling member constituency	Feltham and Heston
tabling member printed	Seema Malhotra
uin	148205
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/03/2022 answer text <p>The Department estimates that approximately one in six or 17.4% of children aged between six and 16 years old had a probable mental health disorder in 2021 - an increase from one in nine or 11.6% in 2017. The investment in specialist mental health support was informed by the prevalence figure for 2020 of approximately one in six children aged between six and 16 years old having a probable mental health disorder.</p> answering member constituency Chichester answering member printed Gillian Keegan question first answered 31/03/2022 09:31:37 answering member 4680 label Biography information for Gillian Keegan
tabling member	4253 label Biography information for Seema Malhotra

1455038

registered interest
date	28/03/2022
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Outdoor Recreation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when the Agnew Review - Access to the Outdoors Commission, which was commissioned in January 2021, will be released.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
uin	148359
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/04/2022 answer text <p>The Access to the Outdoors Commission was a cross-Government process designed to inform the Spending Review on how to increase access to green spaces. There are no plans to release the review in a consolidated way. Rather the results of the review are now incorporated in the Spending Review which is providing more than £30 million to improve public access to green spaces in support of health, wellbeing, and the environment.</p><p> </p><p>The Government also announced it is investing £9m to level up urban green spaces across the UK through the Levelling Up Parks Fund. Grants will be given to, and administered by, local authorities, to deliver new green spaces in over 100 of the neighbourhoods most deprived of green space.</p><p> </p><p>Defra continues to work collaboratively with other Government departments to seek opportunities to continue to improve access to the outdoors and engagement with nature.</p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow question first answered 19/04/2022 16:02:44 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

1455123

registered interest
date	28/03/2022
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Hazardous Substances: Waste Disposal
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much funding the Government has provided to local authorities to help tackle high levels of toxic waste in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Ruth Jones
uin	148385
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/04/2022 answer text <p>The Environmental Protection Act 1990 places a duty on local authorities to provide waste collection and disposal services. The Act also places a duty of care on all waste holders (including local authorities) to ensure the safe disposal or recycling of waste they collect and manage.</p><p> </p><p>In recognition of local authorities being best placed to understand local priorities such as waste management, un-ringfenced funding from the Government is provided. The Local Government Finance Settlement has provided £54.1 billion in 2022/23 for local government in England, an increase of up to £3.7 billion on 2021/22. This comes on top of increases in Core Spending Power at £49 billion in 2020/21.</p><p> </p><p>Businesses, meanwhile, usually have to pay for services to collect and dispose of the waste they generate.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 05/04/2022 13:02:37 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	4716 label Biography information for Ruth Jones

1455126

registered interest
date	28/03/2022
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Office for Environmental Protection: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of funding levels for the Office of Environmental Protection.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Ruth Jones
uin	148386
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/04/2022 answer text The Secretary of State for Defra reviewed the proposal for the Office for Environmental Protection (OEP) funding levels following an internal assurance process. He has subsequently set out the budget for the OEP for 2022/23 in a written ministerial statement on 31 March and is satisfied that this funding is sufficient to enable the OEP to effectively carry out its statutory functions. answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow question first answered 05/04/2022 14:34:21 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
tabling member	4716 label Biography information for Ruth Jones

1455164

registered interest
date	28/03/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	National Fund and Zedra Fiduciary Services (UK)
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether any revenue has accrued to the Exchequer from a cy-près scheme from (a) Zedra Fiduciary Services and (b) the National Fund as at 28 March 2022.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	148112
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/04/2022 answer text <p>No revenue has accrued to the Exchequer from a cy-près scheme from either Zedra Fiduciary Services or the National Fund as at 28 March 2022.</p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen question first answered 04/04/2022 13:20:25 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

1454375

registered interest
date	25/03/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Child Benefit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate his Department has made of the number of families who will see reductions in their child benefit allowance as a result of rising inflation causing wages to rise and the government freezing the higher rate tax limit.
tabling member constituency	Feltham and Heston
tabling member printed	Seema Malhotra
uin	147052
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/03/2022 answer text <p>Child Benefit is a universal benefit payable to families as a contribution towards the costs of raising a child or children. Entitlement to Child Benefit is dependent on a person making a claim for it, and it is not means-tested.</p><p>The High Income Child Benefit Charge (HICBC) is a tax charge which applies to anyone with an income of over £50,000 who gets Child Benefit, or whose partner gets it. The charge increases gradually for those with incomes between £50,000 and £60,000, and is equal to one per cent of a family’s Child Benefit for every extra £100 of income that is over £50,000 each year. Where income exceeds £60,000, the tax charge is equal to the amount payable in Child Benefit. The HICBC threshold is not linked to the Income Tax higher rate threshold.</p><p>The Government set the HICBC thresholds at these levels to help target public expenditure in the way it considered most effective. As with all elements of tax policy, the Government keeps this under review as part of the annual Budget process.</p><p>HM Revenue and Customs publish annual updates on the numbers of families impacted by HICBC, which can be found at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/high-income-child-benefit-charge-data/high-income-child-benefit-charge.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 30/03/2022 16:09:09 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4253 label Biography information for Seema Malhotra

1454166

registered interest
date	24/03/2022
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Energy Company Obligation: Boilers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what the average waiting time is between making an application to the Eco Boiler Grant Scheme to installation of a boiler.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	146681
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/03/2022 answer text <p>The Energy Company Obligation (ECO) is not a grant but an obligation on large energy suppliers, who contract installers to deliver energy efficiency measures. These parties decide where to install, based on property suitability and cost-effectiveness. This approach promotes value-for-money.</p><p>The Government does not become involved in the private contractual decisions of these parties and so cannot influence which households receive measures. The Government does not manage applications for ECO, so does not collect data on application volume or wait times. Suppliers generally identify eligible households via sub-contracted lead generators. Households can contact any obligated supplier to seek ECO support, however eligibility does not guarantee assistance under the scheme.</p><p>Separate to ECO, the Boiler Upgrade Scheme will provide capital grants for the installation of low carbon heat technologies in domestic and small non-domestic properties. Installations commissioned after April 1st will be eligible, with voucher applications opening in May. Further detail can be found at: <a href="http://www.gov.uk/guidance/check-if-you-may-be-eligible-for-the-boiler-upgrade-scheme-from-april-2022" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/guidance/check-if-you-may-be-eligible-for-the-boiler-upgrade-scheme-from-april-2022</a>.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands grouped question UIN 146682 146683 146684 146685 question first answered 31/03/2022 16:14:49 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh