Asked by: Adrian Bailey (Labour (Co-op) - West Bromwich West)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of teaching graduates have gone on to work in schools in (a) England, (b) the West Midlands and (c) Sandwell Metropolitan Borough in each of the last five years.
Answered by Nick Gibb
The proportion of postgraduate final year trainee teachers awarded qualified teacher status, who were in a teaching post within 6 months of qualifying, is published in the Department’s annual initial teacher training (ITT) Performance Profiles statistical release. This is available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/initial-teacher-training-performance-profiles-2015-to-2016.
A time series of data for England are published in table 5a of the ‘Main Tables’ of the latest publication, which relates to trainees in the 2015/16 academic year.
Statistics by region are available for the 2014/15 and 2015/16 academic years in the ‘Main Text’ of the relevant publications. The Department does not publish this data by local authority district, but figures are available by ITT provider in the Provider-level tables.
Asked by: Adrian Bailey (Labour (Co-op) - West Bromwich West)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department is taking to ensure teaching students go on to work in schools once they have graduated.
Answered by Nick Gibb
The latest data shows that 95% of postgraduate trainee teachers who were awarded Qualified Teacher Status were employed in a teaching post within six months of qualifying[1].
Initial Teacher Training (ITT) providers are required to demonstrate that their trainees go on to secure employment in schools; employment rates are one of the outcome measures that Ofsted uses to grade ITT providers.
The Department is developing a free national digital service for schools to publish teacher vacancies and for teachers to search for them. This new service will assist newly registered teachers to find posts.
The Department is also testing early-career payments for new maths teachers; they will receive a generous upfront payment of £20,000 and two early retention payments of at least £5,000 in their third and fifth year of teaching, wherever they teach in England, or £7,500 in 39 local authorities. In addition, teachers will benefit from the student loan repayment threshold rise, and a pilot student loan reimbursement programme for science and Modern Foreign Language teachers in 25 local authorities, in the early years of their career.
Asked by: Adrian Bailey (Labour (Co-op) - West Bromwich West)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what her Department's budget allocation was for reducing the number of young people who were classed as not in employment, education or training in each year since 2011-12.
Answered by Edward Timpson
We want to ensure that everyone has access to high-quality education and training, which is why we are spending around £7billion on education and training for 16 to 19-year-olds this year. All of this funding helps to reduce the number of young people who are classified as not in education, employment or training (NEET) by ensuring there are attractive options available.
The Department’s NEET reduction strategy is working and numbers are the lowest since consistent records began - the proportion of 16- to 18-year-olds who are NEET has reduced from 9.8% in 2011 to 6.5% in 2015[1]. Funding allocations within this budget which especially help support young people at risk of being NEET reflect these year on year successes, including:
o academic years 2013/14 - £594million; 2014/15 - £573million; 2015/16 - £569million; 2016/17 - £544million;
o financial years 2011-12 - £365million; 2012-13 - £240million; 2013-14 – £212million; 2014-15 - £239million; 2015-16 – £239million;[3]
o we estimate expenditure in academic years 2013/14 - £20million; 2014/15 - £35million; 2015/16 - £45million
financial years 2012-13 - £6.9million; 2013-14 - £11.3million; 2014-15 - £23million; 2015-16[6].
[1] Participation in education, training and employment: 2015: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/participation-in-education-training-and-employment-2015
2 Equivalent information for earlier years is unavailable because the disadvantage block funding system changed in 2013
[3] Financial year 2015-16 figures are extracts from the management accounts, final figures will be available once the statutory accounts are published
[4] Traineeships were introduced in 2013. Providers target Traineeship programmes at particular groups, most commonly young people who are NEET and/or on benefits: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/supporting-young-people-to-develop-the-skills-for-apprenticeships-and-sustainable-employment-framework-for-delivery
[5] These are approximations based on 16-18-year-old enrolments as funding for Traineeships is included in general provider allocations
[6] The process of collecting 2015-16 delivery data for financial claims has not been completed so a reliable figure for 2015-16 is not available at this time
Asked by: Adrian Bailey (Labour (Co-op) - West Bromwich West)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many employers in the (a) public and (b) private sector offered apprenticeships in (i) Sandwell, (ii) the West Midlands and (iii) England in (A) 2010, (B) 2011, (C) 2012 and (D) 2013.
Answered by Robert Halfon
Numbers of public or private sector employers offering apprenticeships is not counted by the Department. We do publish information on workplaces offering apprenticeships, which counts the number of individual workplaces at site level. However one employer may have multiple sites. This can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/570133/apprenticeships-workplaces-by-region.xlsx
Latest data on apprenticeship starts by constituency and region can be found in the supplementary tables accompanying the Statistical First Release SFA/SFR36, published on 17 November 2016: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/570129/learner-participation-outcomes-and-level-of-highest-qualification-data-tables-November16.xls
Asked by: Adrian Bailey (Labour (Co-op) - West Bromwich West)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what data her Department collects on the number of young people in each local authority area classified as (a) not in employment, education or training and (b) unable to be located or unknown.
Answered by Edward Timpson
Local authorities collect information to identify young people who are not participating in education and training, or who are at risk of not doing so, to allow them to target their resources on those who need them most. The information collected is submitted to the Department for Education monthly, including the numbers and proportions of young people in each local authority area that are not in education, employment or training (NEET) or whose activity is unknown. The Department publishes data for each local authority including:
Asked by: Adrian Bailey (Labour (Co-op) - West Bromwich West)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many learners have started more than one apprenticeship at the same level since April 2009.
Answered by Robert Halfon
Data is not held centrally in a way that is able to provide the requested information. However, findings from our research on prior qualifications show that 4% of intermediate apprentices and 5% of advanced apprentices declared they had completed an apprenticeship at the same level.
Asked by: Adrian Bailey (Labour (Co-op) - West Bromwich West)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many (a) public and (b) private sector employers offered apprenticeships in West Bromwich West constituency in each year from 2010 to 2015.
Answered by Robert Halfon
Data is not collected centrally at the parliamentary constituency level.
Asked by: Adrian Bailey (Labour (Co-op) - West Bromwich West)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many people aged (a) 16 to 18, (b) 19 to 24 and (c) 25 and over are employed and training in apprenticeships in West Bromwich West constituency.
Answered by Robert Halfon
The table shows apprenticeship participation in 2015/16 (provisional) by age group for the West Bromwich West constituency:
Age | 2015/16 (provisional) |
Under 19 | 490 |
19-24 | 670 |
25+ | 990 |
Total | 2,100 |
Notes:
Numbers are rounded to the nearest 10. Totals are rounded to the nearest 100.
A learner is participating in an academic year if their learning aim is active at any point during the relevant period.
Asked by: Adrian Bailey (Labour (Co-op) - West Bromwich West)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of the age cohort achieved a A* to C grade in GCSE (a) mathematics, (b) English and (c) English literature by the age of (i) 19, (ii) 20, (iii) 21, (iv) 22, (v) 23, (vi) 24 and (vi) 25 years in each of the last 10 years.
Answered by Edward Timpson
The following tables show the proportion of 18, 19 and 20 year-olds who had achieved A*-C grade in GCSE English and GCSE mathematics. The figures relate to academic age, that is age at the start of the academic year, so young people of academic age 18 are those turning 19 during the academic year. The figures cover young people who were in the state sector at academic age 15. The data source used for this analysis does not differentiate between English Literature and English Language so the figures for English include those that have A*-C in either subject. The Department does not hold information on the attainment of people older than academic age 20. The earliest data available is for the cohort that was academic age 18 in 2004/05.
Proportion achieving A*-C grade in GCSE mathematics by academic age and cohort
Academic age | |||
Cohort academic age 18 in | 18 | 19 | 20 |
2004/05 | 49.3% | 49.4% | 49.4% |
2005/06 | 48.6% | 48.7% | 48.8% |
2006/07 | 50.5% | 50.6% | 50.6% |
2007/08 | 52.7% | 52.7% | 52.8% |
2008/09 | 54.6% | 54.7% | 54.7% |
2009/10 | 56.5% | 56.6% | 56.7% |
2010/11 | 59.1% | 59.2% | 59.3% |
2011/12 | 61.9% | 62.0% | |
2012/13 | 65.2% | ||
Source: DfE Young Person's Matched Administrative Dataset.
Proportion achieving A*-C grade in GCSE English by academic age and cohort
Academic age | |||
Cohort academic age 18 in | 18 | 19 | 20 |
2004/05 | 55.9% | 56.0% | 56.0% |
2005/06 | 56.7% | 56.8% | 56.9% |
2006/07 | 57.3% | 57.4% | 57.4% |
2007/08 | 58.9% | 58.9% | 59.0% |
2008/09 | 60.1% | 60.2% | 60.2% |
2009/10 | 61.2% | 61.3% | 61.4% |
2010/11 | 63.2% | 63.3% | 63.3% |
2011/12 | 65.4% | 65.5% | |
2012/13 | 69.0% | ||
Source: DfE Young Person's Matched Administrative Dataset.