The Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games provide a unique and significant opportunity to accelerate employment and skills opportunities for residents across the West Midlands. The government is working closely with our Games partners to ensure we make the most of these opportunities.<\/p>
The West Midlands Combined Authority has recently launched a Commonwealth Games Jobs and Skills Academy which seeks to link West Midlands residents to the thousands of training, volunteering and employment opportunities that the Games will create, with a focus on the most vulnerable at risk groups, including the long-term unemployed.<\/p>
We are working with the local Chamber of Commerce's and other West Midlands business groups to promote procurement opportunities locally. <\/ins><\/p> <\/strong><\/ins> <\/p> <\/p> <\/p> <\/p> <\/p>"}
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], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the potential effect of the ending of the Union Learning Fund from April 2021 on (a) workers affected by covid-19 and (b) the Government\u2019s policy on reducing regional inequality.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1252137/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : " The revenue funding allocated for schools for the financial years 2010/11 to 2019/20 for Coventry local authority is shown in the table below. Aggregated schools funding is not allocated to primary and secondary schools separately, nor to parliamentary constituencies. Primary and secondary pupil numbers for each local authority in England can be found in the local authority tables for each year through following link: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-school-and-pupil-numbers<\/a>.<\/p> Financial Year<\/strong><\/p><\/td> Coventry local authority (£millions)<\/strong><\/p><\/td><\/tr> 2010-11<\/p><\/td> 241.9<\/p><\/td><\/tr> 2011-12<\/p><\/td> 249.8<\/p><\/td><\/tr> 2012-13<\/p><\/td> 257.6<\/p><\/td><\/tr> 2013-14<\/p><\/td> 279.6<\/p><\/td><\/tr> 2014-15<\/p><\/td> 292.0<\/p><\/td><\/tr> 2015-16<\/p><\/td> 298.0<\/p><\/td><\/tr> 2016-17<\/p><\/td> 302.2<\/p><\/td><\/tr> 2017-18<\/p><\/td> 314.2<\/p><\/td><\/tr> 2018-19<\/p><\/td> 324.5<\/p><\/td><\/tr> 2019-20<\/p><\/td> 337.2<\/p><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table> <\/p> Data for allocations prior to 2011/12 are not readily available. Most funding allocations are calculated at a responsible body level, and cannot be broken down to per pupil, primary or secondary, and constituency levels. This is because many responsible bodies, such as academy trusts, span local authority boundaries and decisions on investment in individual schools are often taken at a local level.<\/p> Basic need funding is allocated to local authorities to provide new school places in their area. The Department provides basic need funding for every place that is needed, based on local authorities\u2019 own data on pupil forecasts. These allocations are calculated in line with demographic growth in the local area rather than existing population, so allocations may fluctuate across years. There are now 8,594 more school places in Coventry than there were in 2010.<\/p> In addition to this, Coventry has been allocated nearly £4 million through the Special Provision Capital Fund across 2018-21. This funding is intended to help local authorities create new places and improve facilities for pupils with special educational needs and disabilities.<\/p> (All Values £millions)<\/ins><\/p><\/td> 2011-12<\/ins><\/p><\/td> 2012-13<\/ins><\/p><\/td> 2013-14 and 2014-15<\/ins><\/p><\/td> 2015-16<\/ins><\/p><\/td> 2016-17<\/ins><\/p><\/td> 2017-18<\/ins><\/p><\/td> 2018-19<\/ins><\/p><\/td> 2019-20<\/ins><\/p><\/td> 2020-21<\/ins><\/p><\/td> 2021-22<\/ins><\/p><\/td><\/tr> Basic Need allocations<\/ins><\/p><\/td> 9.9<\/ins><\/p><\/td> 9.7<\/ins><\/p><\/td> 12.5<\/ins><\/p><\/td> 0<\/ins><\/p><\/td> 0<\/ins><\/p><\/td> 3.2<\/ins><\/p><\/td> 6<\/ins><\/p><\/td> 8.2<\/ins><\/p><\/td> 1.9<\/ins><\/p><\/td> 23.7<\/ins><\/p><\/td><\/tr> Special Provision Capital Fund<\/ins><\/p><\/td> -<\/ins><\/p><\/td> -<\/ins><\/p><\/td>
<\/p>"}
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], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what plans he has to ensure that long-term unemployed people in Dudley benefit from the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth games.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment he has made of the number of businesses prevented from accessing the Bounce Back Loan Scheme due to being declined for feeder accounts by banks after a credit check.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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