Asked by: Graham Brady (Conservative - Altrincham and Sale West)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that Muslim students unable to access the traditional student finance system are able to access an alternative, faith-compliant method; and what his planned timetable is for such a system becoming fully operable.
Answered by Michelle Donelan - Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology
I refer my hon. Friend, the member for Altrincham and Sale West, to the answer I gave in response to question 129057.
Asked by: Graham Brady (Conservative - Altrincham and Sale West)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if his Department will take steps to encourage the (a) take-up and (b) provision of apprenticeships in the childcare sector in response to the shortfall in recruitment during the covid-19 outbreak.
Answered by Gillian Keegan - Secretary of State for Education
We have introduced a broad range of flexibilities to ensure that apprentices can continue with their learning, as far as possible, and to encourage the take up of apprenticeships. These include encouraging the remote delivery of training, allowing changes to be made to end-point assessment, and removal of the requirement that level 2 apprentices should work towards or sit their level 2 English and maths GCSE or functional skills exams this academic year.
Apprenticeships will have an important role to play in creating employment opportunities, particularly for young people, and supporting employers in all sectors to access the skilled workforce they need to recover and grow post-COVID-19. We are looking to support employers of all sizes, and particularly smaller businesses such as childcare providers, to take on new apprentices this year. We will set out further details in due course. We will also ensure that there is sufficient funding to support small businesses wanting to take on an apprentice this year.
Asked by: Graham Brady (Conservative - Altrincham and Sale West)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate her Department has made of the number of SEND pupils in each local authority area in England in the most recent year for which figures are available; and what the cost of educating those pupils in each of those areas was in that year.
Answered by Robert Goodwill
The number of SEND pupils in each local authority area in England at January 2017, is available in the local authority tables published on GOV.UK at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/special-educational-needs-in-england-january-2017.
Local authority expenditure data is published on GOV.UK at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/section-251-materials.
This includes expenditure on SEN support services provided directly by local authorities, and their expenditure on special schools. We do not hold information on the costs of educating pupils with SEND that are met by mainstream schools from their budgets.
Asked by: Graham Brady (Conservative - Altrincham and Sale West)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the number of secondary schools in England that will not meet the £4,800 floor per pupil funding in (a) 2018-19 and (b) 2019-20; and in each case what estimate she has made of the cost of raising those schools to the floor per pupil amount.
Answered by Nick Gibb
We are providing an additional £1.3 billion for schools across 2018-19 and 2019-20 to support the introduction of the national funding formula from April next year. Along with the funding we had already committed for schools at the 2015 Spending Review, this will mean the core schools budget rises from just under £41 billion in 2017-18 to £43.5 billion by 2020. Full details of the arrangements are set out at: https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/justine-greening-statement-to-parliament-on-school-funding.
The national funding formula will provide local authorities with per pupil funding of at least £4,800 for all secondary schools by 2019-20. We will set out further details on the £4,800 per pupil amount and the associated funding on each factor when we publish the consultation response in September.