Asked by: Gareth Snell (Labour (Co-op) - Stoke-on-Trent Central)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what information his Department holds on the rate of remuneration for (a) cleaners, (b) security guards and (c) catering staff in his Department in (i) Greater London and (ii) outside Greater London.
Answered by Anne Milton
The department does not employ cleaners, security guards and catering staff.
Cleaning, security duties and catering services in buildings managed by the department are outsourced under facilities management contracts. Suppliers are responsible for setting rates of pay for their staff and rates vary dependent on the age and location of staff and market rates. All suppliers are required to pay, as a minimum, either the National Minimum Wage or the National Living Wage. The rates set by the government for the National Minimum Wage and the National Living Wage will rise in April 2019.
Asked by: Gareth Snell (Labour (Co-op) - Stoke-on-Trent Central)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much was paid in (a) tuition fee loans and (b) maintenance loans with respect to students undertaking undergraduate midwifery courses (a) in total and (b) on average per student midwife in each academic year since 2016-17; and what estimate his Department has made of the proportion of such loans that will be repaid by people who received them.
Answered by Chris Skidmore
Information on the loans paid to students on higher education courses is published annually by the Student Loans Company in the statistics publication Student Support for Higher Education in England.
https://www.slc.co.uk/official-statistics/financial-support-awarded/england-higher-education.aspx.
A breakdown of these statistics by subject of study is not available.
Information on the proportion of student loans not expected to be repaid is published annually by the department in the statistics publication Student Loan Forecasts, England.
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/student-loan-forecasts-england-2017-to-2018.
A breakdown of these statistics by subject of study is not available.
Asked by: Gareth Snell (Labour (Co-op) - Stoke-on-Trent Central)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many staff in his Department that work (a) inside and (b) outside Greater London are paid at a rate below the Real Living Wage.
Answered by Anne Milton
The Department for Education and its executive agencies staff, including all those inside and outside of Greater London are all paid at least the Real Living Wage.
All staff based inside Greater London are paid at least the London Living Wage. There are 103 staff based outside Greater London that are paid below the London Living Wage but are all paid the Real Living Wage.
Asked by: Gareth Snell (Labour (Co-op) - Stoke-on-Trent Central)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many staff in his Department that work (a) inside and (b) outside Greater London are paid at a rate below the London Living Wage.
Answered by Anne Milton
The Department for Education and its executive agencies staff, including all those inside and outside of Greater London are all paid at least the Real Living Wage.
All staff based inside Greater London are paid at least the London Living Wage. There are 103 staff based outside Greater London that are paid below the London Living Wage but are all paid the Real Living Wage.
Asked by: Gareth Snell (Labour (Co-op) - Stoke-on-Trent Central)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the contracted hours are for the highest paid member of staff in his Department.
Answered by Anne Milton
The highest paid member of staff in the department is a full-time member of the Senior Civil Service (SCS). SCS members are required to work a minimum (over a 5-day week) of 42 hours, including daily meal breaks of one hour.
Asked by: Gareth Snell (Labour (Co-op) - Stoke-on-Trent Central)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the total number of staff (a) employed directly by (b) seconded to and (c) working under contract to his Department.
Answered by Anne Milton
The total number of staff (a) employed directly by (b) seconded to and (c) working under contract to the department, as at 31 July 2018, is detailed in the table below:
Staff employed directly by department | 6154 |
Staff seconded to the department | 0 |
Staff working under contract | 641 |
Asked by: Gareth Snell (Labour (Co-op) - Stoke-on-Trent Central)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many people were undertaking a senior healthcare support worker (maternity support) apprenticeship at level 3 within an NHS trust at the latest period for which figures are available.
Answered by Anne Milton
There have been 110 starts on level 3 Health Maternity and Paediatric Support apprenticeships in the 2016/17 academic year.
Note:
1) This figure is rounded to the nearest ten and based on the provisional full year data.
2) Apprenticeship data is collected via the Individualised Learner Record (ILR). We cannot identify employers through the ILR, so are not able to identify NHS Trusts.
NHS organisations are required to meet the public sector apprentice target. The NHS has a range of apprenticeships which support the Government’s commitment to widen participation and social mobility throughout the health sector. The Department of Health has recently announced proposals to train 5000 Nursing Associates through the apprentice route in 2018 and a further 7500 in 2019, which will make a significant contribution to NHS target in future years.
For further information, data on apprenticeship starts by sector subject and level are available in the FE data library:
Asked by: Gareth Snell (Labour (Co-op) - Stoke-on-Trent Central)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many apprenticeship training providers are ready to deliver the senior healthcare support worker (maternity support) apprenticeship at level 3.
Answered by Anne Milton
There are 60 providers currently on the Register of Apprenticeship Training Providers who have confirmed that they are able to deliver the apprenticeship standard ‘senior healthcare support worker’, which includes options such as maternity support. Further information can be found at: https://roatp.apprenticeships.sfa.bis.gov.uk/download.
Information about this apprenticeship, including the training providers that offer it, is available at: https://findapprenticeshiptraining.sfa.bis.gov.uk/Apprenticeship/Standard/151?keywords=senior%20healthcare%20support%20worker%20%28maternity%20support%29%20apprenticeship.
Asked by: Gareth Snell (Labour (Co-op) - Stoke-on-Trent Central)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much NHS trusts have paid apprenticeship training providers since 6 April 2017; how much of that spending has been on senior healthcare support worker (maternity support) apprenticeships at level 3; and how many people have started that such apprenticeship since 6 April 2017.
Answered by Anne Milton
The department does not collect information on how much NHS trusts have paid to apprenticeship training providers or how much they have spent on a particular apprenticeship. Apprenticeship data is collected via the Individualised Learner Record (ILR). We cannot identify employers through the ILR, so are unable to identify NHS Trusts.
The Education and Skills Funding Agency publishes a list of the funding allocated to each training provider for apprenticeship starts annually and updates them throughout the year. Allocations for the 2016 to 2017 funding year can be found at the following link: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/sfa-funding-allocations-to-training-providers-2016-to-2017.
Based on the provisional full year data between 6 April 2017 and the end of July 2017 there were 10 apprenticeship starts on Health Maternity and Paediatric Support apprenticeships at level 3. These figures are rounded to the nearest 10.
Information on apprenticeships by sector subject area and level is publically available in the FE data library: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/586183/apprenticeships-starts-by-geography-learner-demographics-and-sector-subject-area.xlsx.