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Social Mobility — House of Commons, 2018-11-12
Topic: Social Welfare
Questions: What assessment has the Secretary of State made of the effect that the reintroduction of higher education student number controls would have on the number of young students from more disadvantaged backgrounds who make it to university?; The Secretary of State will be fully aware that the high-needs budget affects certain areas more than others. In Hertfordshire in particular there is concern among many teachers and parents that the system just is not working well enough for them. What comfort can he give to my parents and teachers who feel that the provision for children with special needs is not working well enough at the moment?; Suffolk has been criticised for a particularly poor range of special educational needs and disability provision. Given the fragmentation of local education decision making in this country now, how would the Minister advise that that could be addressed?
Damian Patrick George Hinds (Conservative, Centre-right): The hon. Lady is right to identify the centrality of the hundreds of thousands of dedicated people who work in nurseries and early years settings. She mentioned the 30-hours offer and the differences in different income groups. A lone parent has to earn just over £6,500 to be able to access the 30-hours offer. That is one of five extensions of early years and childcare support that have been made available by our Governments since 2010. Overall, by the end of the decade, we will be investing an extra £1 billion, rising to £6 billion in total, on early years in childhood.
Relationships and Sex Education — House of Commons, 2018-11-12
Topic: Education
Nicolas John Gibb (Conservative, Centre-right): We want all schools to deliver high-quality teaching and curriculums in this important area, as many schools already do. The public consultation on the content of relationships and sex education closed last week, and we will use those findings to develop the right support package to complement the content set out in the draft guidance.
Relationships and Sex Education — House of Commons, 2018-11-12
Topic: Education
Nicolas John Gibb (Conservative, Centre-right): The kind of support we have in mind is support in terms of materials and training, rather than funding, but we will look very carefully at this once we have examined all the responses to the consultation, to which 40,000 individuals responded.
Relationships and Sex Education — House of Commons, 2018-11-12
Topic: Education
Nicolas John Gibb (Conservative, Centre-right): We have certainly given this a great deal of thought in the context of relationships and sex education. We believe that all schools should ensure that young people, whatever their developing sexuality or identity, feel that relationships education and RSE is relevant to them and sensitive to their needs. The purpose of the new provisions includes ensuring that young people learn that there are different types of relationships in modern Britain. Schools should therefore ensure that RSE is inclusive and meets the needs of all young people.
Relationships and Sex Education — House of Commons, 2018-11-12
Topic: Education
Nicolas John Gibb (Conservative, Centre-right): Of course, it is the responsibility of schools to provide the relevant training for their teachers in all curriculum subjects. We are looking at the response to the consultation—which, as I said, closed last week—to determine what support and resources schools will need to be able to deliver this far-reaching reform of the curriculum in our schools.
Tuition Fees: Social Mobility — House of Commons, 2018-11-12
Topic: Education
Samuel Phillip Gyimah (Conservative, Centre-right): The proportion of 18-year-olds from disadvantaged backgrounds entering full-time higher education is up from 13.6% in 2009 to 20.4% in 2017, so disadvantaged 18-year-olds were 50% more likely to enter HE than in 2009. That is a record that this Government can be proud of.
Tuition Fees: Social Mobility — House of Commons, 2018-11-12
Topic: Education
Samuel Phillip Gyimah (Conservative, Centre-right): The example of the Scottish Government is not one that is worth copying. We know that in Scotland, because tuition is free, resource per student is lower, and therefore disadvantaged students in Scotland have to wait for English students ahead of them in clearing because they pay more money. That is not an example we will be copying.
Tuition Fees: Social Mobility — House of Commons, 2018-11-12
Topic: Education
Desmond Angus Swayne (Conservative, Centre-right): At St Andrews University, Scottish students go free, and as a consequence their numbers are capped at 20% of the university’s population. Cut tuition fees, and we cut opportunities for students. It is that simple, isn’t it?
Tuition Fees: Social Mobility — House of Commons, 2018-11-12
Topic: Education
Samuel Phillip Gyimah (Conservative, Centre-right): The hon. Gentleman is asking me to comment on leaks, and it will be no surprise to him that I will not comment on any leaks about an independent review. However, I will say that ensuring there is opportunity for everyone and creating opportunities that satisfy the skills our country needs is at the heart of the review. It is in the terms of reference, and that is what I will be looking for in the recommendations.
Tuition Fees: Social Mobility — House of Commons, 2018-11-12
Topic: Education
Andrew James Bridgen (Conservative, Centre-right): The latest report by the Education Committee suggests that some students are not getting value for money from their university courses. Does the Minister agree that only degrees that enhance employability and earning potential by more than the cost of the course can possibly improve social mobility, and what more can the Government do to make sure that young people make the right decisions about which course to go on?
Tuition Fees: Social Mobility — House of Commons, 2018-11-12
Topic: Education
Samuel Phillip Gyimah (Conservative, Centre-right): I take slight issue with the point my hon. Friend makes in the sense that there are degrees that do not lead to higher earnings but are of incredible value—for example, for people who go into social work or nursing—but we need to ensure that every degree is of the right quality and gives students the best opportunity. That is why the new regulator, the Office for Students, which has the interests of students at its heart, is looking at value for money for students, and it is why we have introduced the teaching and excellence framework to focus on the quality of teaching. We are also backing the launch of new information to empower students to make the right choices.
Higher Education: Overseas Collaboration — House of Commons, 2018-11-12
Topic: Technology
Questions: What recent discussions he has had with the Home Secretary on the effect of immigration law on the ability of higher education establishments to engage effectively in work with their counterparts overseas.
Samuel Phillip Gyimah (Conservative, Centre-right): I assume the hon. Gentleman is referring to the Horizon 2020 research programme. The UK has made it very clear that we want to fully associate with the successor programme to Horizon 2020—Horizon Europe—to ensure that our researchers can continue to collaborate with the brightest and the best in Europe.
Teacher Recruitment and Retention — House of Commons, 2018-11-12
Topic: Education
Nicolas John Gibb (Conservative, Centre-right): The number of teachers remains high, with more than 450,000 in schools across the country—that is over 10,000 more than in 2010. With a strong economy and the lowest unemployment for over 40 years, competition with other professions, industry and commerce for the best graduates is fierce. That is why we have generous tax-free bursaries of up to £26,000 in certain subjects to attract high-performing graduates into teacher training and into the profession.
Teacher Recruitment and Retention — House of Commons, 2018-11-12
Topic: Education
Nicolas John Gibb (Conservative, Centre-right): We agreed the School Teachers Review Body recommendations for a 3.5% rise in the pay ranges for the main scale of teachers, a 2% rise in the upper pay scale and a 1.5% rise for the leadership range. We are funding that to schools through a teachers’ pay grant over and above the 1% they will already have budgeted. Earlier this year, we announced the new recruitment and retention strategy, building on existing work to boost marketing and support to applicants. The strategy seeks to increase retention rates by streamlining accountability and stripping away unnecessary workload, which the evidence suggests does not improve children’s outcomes.
Teacher Recruitment and Retention — House of Commons, 2018-11-12
Topic: Education
Nicolas John Gibb (Conservative, Centre-right): My right hon. Friend is absolutely right: dealing with workload has been a key objective of this Government. In July, we published the workload reduction toolkit, which provides material, practical advice and case studies that headteachers and other staff can use to address workload issues in their schools.
Teacher Recruitment and Retention — House of Commons, 2018-11-12
Topic: Education
Nicolas John Gibb (Conservative, Centre-right): As my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State has said, we acknowledge that funding in the 16-to-18 sector has not been protected in the same way that we have protected school funding since 2010, because since 2010 our priority has been to ensure that basic education between the ages of five and 16 is given the priority it needs.
Teacher Recruitment and Retention — House of Commons, 2018-11-12
Topic: Education
Nicolas John Gibb (Conservative, Centre-right): The Troops to Teachers scheme has resulted in a number of high-qualified ex-military coming into our schools. It has been slow to start, but it is a good programme, and I am determined that it will continue.
Further Education Funding — House of Commons, 2018-11-12
Topic: Education
Anne Frances Milton (Conservative, Centre-right): We are working closely with the Treasury, as finance has been challenging for further education colleges, and this work will continue in preparation for the spending review. We are also undertaking a look at the resilience of the sector to make sure that the regulatory structures and funding give us the high-quality provision that we want to see. I have mentioned the £2.5 billion that will be available by 2020 for apprenticeship training. When T-levels are fully rolled out in 2020, there will be an additional £500 million a year.
Further Education Funding — House of Commons, 2018-11-12
Topic: Education
Scott Leslie Mann (Conservative, Centre-right): I thank the Minister for that response. As we approach the spending review, may I emphasise, particularly from North Cornwall, the passion and drive that we need to make sure that this money does go into further education? In the post-Brexit world we will be living in, it is more important than ever that our young people have the skills to benefit, so can we make sure that we push the Treasury hard on this?
Further Education Funding — House of Commons, 2018-11-12
Topic: Education
Anne Frances Milton (Conservative, Centre-right): My hon. Friend is a doughty champion for those in his constituency. Education is crucial, and we need to help young people to acquire the skills to thrive in life and work. For many, further education offers a second, third or even fourth chance, so it is important that we make sure they have the resources they need. Sadly, further education often gets squashed between the discussion about schools and that about university. I know my hon. Friend will be making his own representations to the Treasury.
Further Education Funding — House of Commons, 2018-11-12
Topic: Education
Anne Frances Milton (Conservative, Centre-right): As the hon. Lady will have heard, we are looking at the resilience of the sector. I mentioned the £2.5 billion by 2020 and the £500 million for T-levels. There is a lot of work going on to ensure the sector has the resources it needs. Colleges are delivering extraordinarily high-quality training and education—three-quarters of colleges are good or outstanding—and they have high-quality financial management. We put a huge amount of money into restructuring, with exceptional financial support for this sector. A number of pots of money are now being made available to increase the number of teachers in further education.
Further Education Funding — House of Commons, 2018-11-12
Topic: Education
Anne Frances Milton (Conservative, Centre-right): I will not attempt to compete with the hon. Gentleman’s jokes about close encounters. I do not agree that we have been given the cold shoulder. We are looking at the resilience of the sector. I made it quite clear that I am fully aware of the challenges that FE faces. We have been putting in a lot of money, but I know that in the longer term we have to ensure that the core funding allows FE to deliver the high quality education that young people and, indeed, older people need.
New Schools — House of Commons, 2018-11-12
Topic: Education
Damian Patrick George Hinds (Conservative, Centre-right): As well as those already open, we have approved a further 266 free schools and university technical college applications, including 69 in London. What we now need to know from the Opposition is what would happen to the programme in the unfortunate event of their getting into government.
New Schools — House of Commons, 2018-11-12
Topic: Education
Gregory William Hands (Conservative, Centre-right): My two boroughs have seen an astonishing five new secondary schools opened under this Government: the Kensington Aldridge Academy, the Chelsea Academy, the West London Free School, the Hammersmith Academy and the Fulham Boys School. The fifth one, however, needs to move to a new site as soon as possible. I thank my right hon. Friend for meeting me in the summer, when we talked about the new site. Will he give us an update on progress on moving to the new site?
New Schools — House of Commons, 2018-11-12
Topic: Education
Damian Patrick George Hinds (Conservative, Centre-right): First, let me thank my right hon. Friend for his personal involvement with these programmes. Of course we always endeavour to minimise the amount of time that any open free school needs to stay in temporary accommodation before moving to a permanent site. As he will know, there have been complexities in this case. I am very happy to meet him to discuss them.
New Schools — House of Commons, 2018-11-12
Topic: Education
Damian Patrick George Hinds (Conservative, Centre-right): To be fair to the hon. Gentleman, these things happen at a quarter past three. It is an occupational hazard Free schools are one part of our expansion. This decade will have the largest expansion in school capacity for at least two generations, with 1 million new school places added and £7 billion of investment committed over the period.
New Schools — House of Commons, 2018-11-12
Topic: Education
Damian Patrick George Hinds (Conservative, Centre-right): We are investing in the school system, both through the additional £1.3 billion we found last year and through the capital moneys, to which I just referred, to fund the large expansion in the school system. Although these are questions to the Government, I think that everybody would be keen to hear more from the hon. Lady about how no school would be under threat from Labour party policy.
Asbestos Management Assurance Process — House of Commons, 2018-11-12
Topic: Education
Nicolas John Gibb (Conservative, Centre-right): The results of the asbestos management assurance process will be published in spring next year. Seventy-seven per cent. of schools have responded so far, but we expect all state-funded schools and academies to participate, so we have reopened the assurance process from today until February 2019 to give them a further opportunity to do so.
Asbestos Management Assurance Process — House of Commons, 2018-11-12
Topic: Education
Nicolas John Gibb (Conservative, Centre-right): So far, 17,000 state-funded schools have responded to the survey; of those, 68% were assured by the appropriate responsible body. Since 2015, we have allocated £5.6 billion to those responsible for school building for essential maintenance, including removing or encapsulating asbestos when that is the safest course of action. In addition, through the £4.4 billion priority school building programme, we are rebuilding or refurbishing buildings in the worst condition, and asbestos is a factor in choosing which schools to rebuild.
Education Funding — House of Commons, 2018-11-12
Topic: Education
Questions: What assessment he has made of the effect of the additional funding for education announced in Budget 2018 on education funding in real terms.
Damian Patrick George Hinds (Conservative, Centre-right): In the Budget, the Government invested more than £1 billion of new funding for the Department for Education, including £695 million to improve the number and quality of apprenticeships, £400 million capital for schools, £100 million for the national retraining scheme and £84 million to improve children’s social care.
Education Funding — House of Commons, 2018-11-12
Topic: Education
Questions: What assessment he has made of the effect of the additional funding for education announced in Budget 2018 on education funding in real terms.
Damian Patrick George Hinds (Conservative, Centre-right): No, Mr Speaker. Of course revenue funding is determined periodically at spending reviews. Since the last spending review, we have found an additional £1.3 billion to hold per pupil real terms funding constant on a nationwide level.
Education Funding — House of Commons, 2018-11-12
Topic: Education
Questions: What assessment he has made of the effect of the additional funding for education announced in Budget 2018 on education funding in real terms.
Damian Patrick George Hinds (Conservative, Centre-right): Yes, my hon. Friend is right. Through the national funding formula—the fairer formula—we are taking on something that successive Governments have dodged to make sure that funding is based on need and the characteristics of pupils, rather than accidents of history.
Education Funding — House of Commons, 2018-11-12
Topic: Education
Questions: What assessment he has made of the effect of the additional funding for education announced in Budget 2018 on education funding in real terms.
Damian Patrick George Hinds (Conservative, Centre-right): I have not been slapped down four times by anybody, to the best of my recollection. I appreciate the difficulties in managing school budgets, and I appreciate that those budgets are tight, but it is also true that we spend a great deal more on schools than we used to and that, by international standards, on multiple measures, we spend a relatively high amount on state education in this country.
Education Funding — House of Commons, 2018-11-12
Topic: Education
Questions: What assessment he has made of the effect of the additional funding for education announced in Budget 2018 on education funding in real terms.
Damian Patrick George Hinds (Conservative, Centre-right): We are investing a great deal of capital both on expanding the school estate to create more high-quality places and in terms of its condition. The £400 million for additional small capital projects is on top of the £1.4 billion already allocated.
Maintained Nursery School Funding — House of Commons, 2018-11-12
Topic: Education
Nadhim Zahawi (Conservative, Centre-right): Thank you, Mr Speaker—I will clear my throat. Maintained nursery schools support some of our most disadvantaged children, and they do experience higher costs than other providers. We will therefore be providing local authorities with supplementary funding of about £60 million a year up to 2020.
Maintained Nursery School Funding — House of Commons, 2018-11-12
Topic: Education
Nadhim Zahawi (Conservative, Centre-right): The early years national funding formula for Greenwich has increased from £4.86 in 2016-17 to a provisional £6.17 in 2018-19. On top of this, in 2018-19, Greenwich will receive about £690,000 for its three maintained nurseries. My message to all local authorities is: do not do anything premature but wait for the spending review.
T-levels — House of Commons, 2018-11-12
Topic: Education
Damian Patrick George Hinds (Conservative, Centre-right): We have made excellent progress and recently reached a significant milestone when we launched the procurement for the development of the first three T-levels for 2020. We are working closely with the selected providers that will deliver them from 2020, including several in the midlands, to make sure they have the right support in place.
T-levels — House of Commons, 2018-11-12
Topic: Education
Damian Patrick George Hinds (Conservative, Centre-right): Over time, we are committing hundreds of millions of pounds in additional resourcing for T-levels. My hon. Friend is right to identify facilities and equipment, which is why we have committed £38 million in the first tranche of capital funding to support the initial roll-out.
Ofsted: Inspection of Outstanding Schools — House of Commons, 2018-11-12
Topic: Education
Nicolas John Gibb (Conservative, Centre-right): We are considering the Public Account Committee’s recent recommendation that we review the exemption and will respond formally in December. Ofsted assesses the risks in all schools, including outstanding schools, and has the power to inspect any school if it has concerns.
Ofsted: Inspection of Outstanding Schools — House of Commons, 2018-11-12
Topic: Education
Nicolas John Gibb (Conservative, Centre-right): Ofsted assesses the triggers that will cause an inspection to happen even where a school is judged as outstanding and exempt from inspection—for example, if a school’s results fall, complaints are received from parents or there are safeguarding concerns. All those are triggers that will cause an inspection to happen even in an outstanding school. The hon. Gentleman can be confident, therefore, that a school that is judged good or outstanding is good or outstanding.
Topical Questions — House of Commons, 2018-11-12
Topic: Education
Damian Patrick George Hinds (Conservative, Centre-right): My Department continues its work to ensure that young people get the best start in life whatever their background. We are widening opportunity with our school reforms, reinforced through new programmes such as Opportunity North East; in the latest Budget, funding was provided for T-levels and apprenticeships to improve the quality of our technical education, so that we can rival productivity leaders such as Germany; and last week, our consultation on relationships, sex and health education closed with over 11,000 responses. These new subjects can help young people growing up in an ever more complex world.
Topical Questions — House of Commons, 2018-11-12
Topic: Social Welfare
Questions: Statutory child protection interventions are continuing to rise at record levels. What can the Minister do to ensure that such interventions are used only for high-risk cases, and not as an alternative to family support?
Nadhim Zahawi (Conservative, Centre-right): The law is clear: only children who are suffering, or at risk of suffering, significant harm receive child protection interventions. When it comes to support for children and families with wider needs, the statutory safeguarding guidance is also clear: local authorities should make a range of services available, including early help.
Topical Questions — House of Commons, 2018-11-12
Topic: Social Welfare
Questions: Statutory child protection interventions are continuing to rise at record levels. What can the Minister do to ensure that such interventions are used only for high-risk cases, and not as an alternative to family support?
Nadhim Zahawi (Conservative, Centre-right): The hon. Lady has raised an important issue, which my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care has also sought to address, and of which there has been some media coverage. Looked-after children are our responsibility: we are, ultimately, their parents. This is wrong, and should not be happening.