Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the utility of Lead Generators within the training sector.

Answered by Josh MacAlister - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Education)

The department does not prescribe the use of lead generators for the further education (FE) and skills sector and has not made a specific assessment of the utility of lead generators within the training sector.

Training providers are responsible for marketing their provision and attracting learners. The use of lead-generation services is a commercial decision for individual providers and forms part of the operation of the wider training market.

The department maintains oversight of the FE and skills sector through its published oversight arrangements with a focus on ensuring that publicly funded training delivers high-quality outcomes for learners and employers. Providers delivering department-funded provision are required to comply with the relevant funding rules and contractual requirements. Outcomes are measured through a range of established performance indicators. Provider performance is monitored through assurance and performance-management arrangements, and the department takes action where providers fail to meet the required standards or contractual expectations.

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to help reduce illegal migration.

Answered by Alex Norris - Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice

Last November, we announced the most significant reforms to the asylum system in a generation, and on 30 June introduced the Immigration and Asylum Bill to deliver them.

We are already backing these reforms with action: by December 2025, returns had increased by 27% and illegal working visits by 77% compared with the previous 18 months, while small boat arrivals are down 40% in 2026.

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 16 June 2026 to Question 900535 on Children: Protection, whether (a) current and (b) proposed measures require relevant child risk information about dangerous adults in children’s lives to be proactively disclosed to protective (i) parents and (ii) carers before harm occurs.

Answered by Josh MacAlister - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Education)

Current powers and procedures including ‘Sarah’s Law’ allow both proactive and application-based disclosures of relevant information where this is necessary to protect a child, regardless of the recipient’s relationship to that child.

Any disclosure must be within the existing legal framework and have due regard to the established case law, the Human Rights Act 1998, and the UK General Data Protection Regulation and Part 3 of the Data Protection Act 2018.

To better inform where disclosure is necessary, the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools’ Act’s Information Sharing Duty and the Crime and Policing Act’s Child Cruelty Register will improve the identification of risk and the visibility of individuals who may pose a risk to children, helping agencies determine when disclosure is necessary to safeguard a child.

The government recognises the importance of timely risk disclosure and has assessed that the benefits of a dedicated risk disclosure mechanism can be achieved through existing legislation that enables disclosure to protect children, particularly the Crime and Policing Act, which places Sarah's Law on statutory footing.

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 16 June 2026 to Question 900535 on Children: Protection, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of creating a dedicated mechanism requiring relevant child risk information to be proactively disclosed to protective parents and carers where necessary to safeguard a child.

Answered by Josh MacAlister - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Education)

Current powers and procedures including ‘Sarah’s Law’ allow both proactive and application-based disclosures of relevant information where this is necessary to protect a child, regardless of the recipient’s relationship to that child.

Any disclosure must be within the existing legal framework and have due regard to the established case law, the Human Rights Act 1998, and the UK General Data Protection Regulation and Part 3 of the Data Protection Act 2018.

To better inform where disclosure is necessary, the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools’ Act’s Information Sharing Duty and the Crime and Policing Act’s Child Cruelty Register will improve the identification of risk and the visibility of individuals who may pose a risk to children, helping agencies determine when disclosure is necessary to safeguard a child.

The government recognises the importance of timely risk disclosure and has assessed that the benefits of a dedicated risk disclosure mechanism can be achieved through existing legislation that enables disclosure to protect children, particularly the Crime and Policing Act, which places Sarah's Law on statutory footing.

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