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1656883

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date	01/09/2023
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Physics: Women
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many girls studied physics at (a) GCSE, (b) A-level and (c) bachelors degree level in (i) 2015, (ii) 2016, (iii) 2017, (iv) 2018, (v) 2019, (vi) 2020 (vii) 2021 and (viii) 2022.
tabling member constituency	Oxford East
tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
uin	196565
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2023 answer text <p>The numbers of female students entering GCSE and A level exams in physics, and the numbers of enrolments from female students in a bachelor’s degree in physics, are published by the Department for Education and the Higher Education Statistics Agency respectively and can be found in the attached table.</p><p>The number entering at GCSE includes those at the end of KS4, and for physics as an individual subject, but not those entered for the combined science GCSE (of which physics is a part).</p><p>The number for A level includes all entries by female students aged 16 to 18 in that academic year.</p><p>Enrolments for bachelor’s degrees are in first degree level physics courses at UK higher education providers.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 07/09/2023 16:19:40 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb attachment 1 file name 196565 QC 040923 (table).xlsx title Number of GCSE Physics entries in England
tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds

1656884

registered interest
date	01/09/2023
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Tech She Can
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department has (a) held meetings and (b) exchanged communications with the TechSheCan charity in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Oxford East
tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
uin	196566
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2023 answer text <p>Officials from the Department have engaged with TechSheCan, including as part of the work to look at girls’ engagement in computing through the Digital and Computing Skills Education Taskforce and through the National Centre for Computing Education.</p><p>In March 2023, the Department for Education and the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology created the Digital and Computing Skills Education Taskforce. The taskforce will harness Government and external expertise to increase the numbers of individuals studying digital and computing qualifications and to attract individuals into digital jobs. One of the key issues the Taskforce will address is the poor gender diversity within computing and digital education and employment. As part of the process of gathering evidence for this workstream, officials met with various charitable organisations seeking to increase the proportion of women and girls taking digital and computing qualifications and ultimately gaining employment within the digital sector. TechSheCan was one of those organisations.</p><p>The Department has provided over £100 million of funding for the National Centre for Computing Education (NCCE) to improve the quality of computing education and increase participation in computing at GCSE and A level. In August 2023, the NCCE met with TechSheCan to discuss opportunities to better support one another, particularly in how we encourage more girls to identify computing as an area in which they can excel. This has included collaborating on the new ‘I Belong’ programme and associated teacher handbook, which has recently launched and aims to improve schools’ awareness of barriers to girls’ engagement with computing. The NCCE will continue to work with TechSheCan to develop an action plan for this academic year, ensuring any engagement provides the greatest benefit to pupils and teachers of computing.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 07/09/2023 16:22:31 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds

1656893

registered interest
date	01/09/2023
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	Health Services: Women
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made a recent comparative assessment of the UK rate of (a) breast and cervical cancer screenings, (b) access to Hormone replacement therapy, (c) maternal mortality, (d) women's life expectancy, (e) women's confidence in healthcare provision and (f) time to diagnose (i) endometriosis and (ii) polycystic ovary syndrome compared with similar countries.
tabling member constituency	Oxford East
tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
uin	196569
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2023 answer text <p>No specific assessments have been made.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield question first answered 07/09/2023 11:26:41 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds

1654858

registered interest
date	20/07/2023
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Parking: Pedestrian Areas
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 17 April 2023 to Question 177959 on Parking: Pedestrian Areas, when he plans to publish his Department's response to its consultation on Managing Pavement Parking.
tabling member constituency	Oxford East
tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
uin	195594
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/09/2023 answer text <p>Pavement parking is a complex issue. We want to take the right step for communities and ensure that local authorities have appropriate and effective tools at their disposal. We are working through the options and the possible legislative opportunities for delivering them and as soon as those matters are certain we will publish our formal response at:</p><p><a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/managing-pavement-parking" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/consultations/managing-pavement-parking</a>.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency North West Durham answering member printed Mr Richard Holden question first answered 04/09/2023 14:29:49 answering member 4813 label Biography information for Mr Richard Holden
tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds

1653961

registered interest
date	18/07/2023
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	School Day: Teachers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what information she holds on the number and proportion of (a) mainstream and (b) special schools that have reduced teaching hours due to staff shortages in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Oxford East
tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
uin	194810
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/07/2023 answer text <p>Recent data shows there are now over 468,000 full time equivalent (FTE) teachers in state funded schools in England, an increase of 27,000 (6%) since 2010. This makes it the highest number of FTE teachers on record since the School Workforce Census began in 2010.</p><p>In November 2022 there were 27,140 FTE teachers and 86,410 FTE total workforce in 1,358 special schools and pupil referral units (PRUs). This is an increase from 20,617 FTE teachers and 64,171 FTE total workforce in 1,336 special schools/PRUs in 2013, the earliest comparable data.</p><p>The Department does not hold data on the number and proportion of mainstream or special schools that have reduced teaching hours due to staff shortages in the last 12 months. The Department continues to take action to increase teacher recruitment in all school types and to ensure teachers across England stay and succeed in the profession.</p><p>The Department has accepted the School Teachers’ Review Body’s recommendations for the 2023/24 pay award for teachers and headteachers in full. This means that teachers and headteachers in maintained schools will receive a pay award of 6.5%, the highest STRB award in three decades. This award also delivers the manifesto commitment of a minimum £30,000 starting salary for teachers in all regions of the country, with a pay award of up to 7.1% for new teachers outside London.</p><p>The school teachers’ pay and conditions document for 2022 sets out that an additional Special Educational Needs (SEN) allowance must be paid to teachers in a SEN post that requires a mandatory SEN qualification and involves teaching pupils with SEN. The document is available at: <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1110990/2022_STPCD.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1110990/2022_STPCD.pdf</a>. It is for schools to determine the specific amount, but this must be between £2,384 and £4,703 per annum. Following the 2023/24 pay award, this is due to increase by 6.5%, subject to statutory consultation.</p><p>The Department announced a financial incentives package worth up to £181 million for those starting Initial Teacher Training (ITT) in the 2023/24 academic year.</p><p>The Department provides a Levelling Up Premium worth up to £3,000 annually for mathematics, physics, chemistry, and computing teachers in the first five years of their careers who work in disadvantaged schools nationally, including within Education Investment Areas. The eligibility criteria and list of eligible schools are available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/levelling-up-premium-payments-for-teachers" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/levelling-up-premium-payments-for-teachers</a>.</p><p>The Department has created an entitlement to at least three years of structured training, support and professional development for all new teachers, underpinned by the ITT Core Content Framework and the Early Career Framework. Together, these ensure that new teachers will benefit from at least three years of evidence based training, across ITT and into their induction.</p><p>In May 2023, the Department published guidance for accredited ITT providers and their partners, to support the involvement of special schools and alternative provision in ITT. The guidance is available at: <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1157879/ITT_-_special_schools_and_alternative_provision_May_2023.pdf#:~:text=It%20has%20been%20produced%20to%20help%20accredited%20Initial,units%2C%20and%20mainstream%20schools%20with%20SEN%20resource%20units" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1157879/ITT_-_special_schools_and_alternative_provision_May_2023.pdf#:~:text=It%20has%20been%20produced%20to%20help%20accredited%20Initial,units%2C%20and%20mainstream%20schools%20with%20SEN%20resource%20units</a>.</p><p>Additionally, to support retention in the sector, the Department has worked with the education sector and published a range of resources to help address staff workload and wellbeing, and support schools to introduce flexible working practices. This includes the workload reduction toolkit, available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/school-workload-reduction-toolkit" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/school-workload-reduction-toolkit</a> and the Education Staff Wellbeing Charter, available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/education-staff-wellbeing-charter" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/education-staff-wellbeing-charter</a>. More than 2,700 schools have signed up to the Charter so far.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb grouped question UIN 194811 question first answered 26/07/2023 12:24:40 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds

1653962

registered interest
date	18/07/2023
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Special Educational Needs: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to improve staffing levels at special schools.
tabling member constituency	Oxford East
tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
uin	194811
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/07/2023 answer text <p>Recent data shows there are now over 468,000 full time equivalent (FTE) teachers in state funded schools in England, an increase of 27,000 (6%) since 2010. This makes it the highest number of FTE teachers on record since the School Workforce Census began in 2010.</p><p>In November 2022 there were 27,140 FTE teachers and 86,410 FTE total workforce in 1,358 special schools and pupil referral units (PRUs). This is an increase from 20,617 FTE teachers and 64,171 FTE total workforce in 1,336 special schools/PRUs in 2013, the earliest comparable data.</p><p>The Department does not hold data on the number and proportion of mainstream or special schools that have reduced teaching hours due to staff shortages in the last 12 months. The Department continues to take action to increase teacher recruitment in all school types and to ensure teachers across England stay and succeed in the profession.</p><p>The Department has accepted the School Teachers’ Review Body’s recommendations for the 2023/24 pay award for teachers and headteachers in full. This means that teachers and headteachers in maintained schools will receive a pay award of 6.5%, the highest STRB award in three decades. This award also delivers the manifesto commitment of a minimum £30,000 starting salary for teachers in all regions of the country, with a pay award of up to 7.1% for new teachers outside London.</p><p>The school teachers’ pay and conditions document for 2022 sets out that an additional Special Educational Needs (SEN) allowance must be paid to teachers in a SEN post that requires a mandatory SEN qualification and involves teaching pupils with SEN. The document is available at: <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1110990/2022_STPCD.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1110990/2022_STPCD.pdf</a>. It is for schools to determine the specific amount, but this must be between £2,384 and £4,703 per annum. Following the 2023/24 pay award, this is due to increase by 6.5%, subject to statutory consultation.</p><p>The Department announced a financial incentives package worth up to £181 million for those starting Initial Teacher Training (ITT) in the 2023/24 academic year.</p><p>The Department provides a Levelling Up Premium worth up to £3,000 annually for mathematics, physics, chemistry, and computing teachers in the first five years of their careers who work in disadvantaged schools nationally, including within Education Investment Areas. The eligibility criteria and list of eligible schools are available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/levelling-up-premium-payments-for-teachers" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/levelling-up-premium-payments-for-teachers</a>.</p><p>The Department has created an entitlement to at least three years of structured training, support and professional development for all new teachers, underpinned by the ITT Core Content Framework and the Early Career Framework. Together, these ensure that new teachers will benefit from at least three years of evidence based training, across ITT and into their induction.</p><p>In May 2023, the Department published guidance for accredited ITT providers and their partners, to support the involvement of special schools and alternative provision in ITT. The guidance is available at: <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1157879/ITT_-_special_schools_and_alternative_provision_May_2023.pdf#:~:text=It%20has%20been%20produced%20to%20help%20accredited%20Initial,units%2C%20and%20mainstream%20schools%20with%20SEN%20resource%20units" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1157879/ITT_-_special_schools_and_alternative_provision_May_2023.pdf#:~:text=It%20has%20been%20produced%20to%20help%20accredited%20Initial,units%2C%20and%20mainstream%20schools%20with%20SEN%20resource%20units</a>.</p><p>Additionally, to support retention in the sector, the Department has worked with the education sector and published a range of resources to help address staff workload and wellbeing, and support schools to introduce flexible working practices. This includes the workload reduction toolkit, available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/school-workload-reduction-toolkit" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/school-workload-reduction-toolkit</a> and the Education Staff Wellbeing Charter, available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/education-staff-wellbeing-charter" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/education-staff-wellbeing-charter</a>. More than 2,700 schools have signed up to the Charter so far.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb grouped question UIN 194810 question first answered 26/07/2023 12:24:40 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds

1653969

registered interest
date	18/07/2023
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Driving: Young People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent estimate he has made of when the findings of the Driver 2020 project will be published.
tabling member constituency	Oxford East
tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
uin	194816
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2023 answer text <p>We look forward to receiving the findings from the Driver 2020 project, which will feed into considerations on further measures we can take to improve road safety for young drivers. The findings will be published in due course.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency North West Durham answering member printed Mr Richard Holden question first answered 21/07/2023 10:04:03 answering member 4813 label Biography information for Mr Richard Holden
tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds

1653970

registered interest
date	18/07/2023
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Driving: Young People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make an estimate of the proportion of drivers under 25 that have black boxes installed in their cars.
tabling member constituency	Oxford East
tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
uin	194817
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2023 answer text <p>The Department does not collect this information.</p> answering member constituency North West Durham answering member printed Mr Richard Holden question first answered 21/07/2023 10:14:20 answering member 4813 label Biography information for Mr Richard Holden
tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds

1653971

registered interest
date	18/07/2023
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Roads: Safety
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he has made a recent assessment of the effectiveness of road safety legislation for protecting young people; and if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of bringing forward legislative proposals to improve road safety for young people.
tabling member constituency	Oxford East
tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
uin	194818
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2023 answer text <p>The Department has commissioned research to examine interventions designed to help learner and newly-qualified drivers improve their skills and safety and we are awaiting publication of outcomes before considering further measures we can take to improve road safety for young drivers.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency North West Durham answering member printed Mr Richard Holden question first answered 21/07/2023 10:16:45 answering member 4813 label Biography information for Mr Richard Holden
tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds

1653606

registered interest
date	17/07/2023
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	General Practitioners: Postnatal Care
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of GP practices offer women a postnatal assessment six to eight weeks after giving birth.
tabling member constituency	Oxford East
tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
uin	194517
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/07/2023 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally.</p><p>Since the general practice contract Regulations were amended in 2020, there has been a contractual requirement for all women to be offered a maternal postnatal consultation, between six and eight weeks postnatally. As defined in the contract, this is a consultation with a general medical practitioner at which the physical and mental health and well-being of the women is reviewed. The consultation should be offered face to face, but where there are practical challenges for the mother in attending, such as having a baby in neonatal care, a virtual check can be carried out so long as appropriate follow-ups are in place.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield grouped question UIN 194518 question first answered 24/07/2023 10:45:18 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield previous answer version 89359 answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds