Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Department: Department for Education

Oral Answers to Questions

Nic Dakin Excerpts
Monday 6th November 2017

(6 years, 5 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Nick Gibb Portrait The Minister for School Standards (Nick Gibb)
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I congratulate the school in my hon. Friend’s constituency. More than half of teachers are trained through school-led systems, which means that schools have more control over the quality of the training that their teachers receive, and that schools can look for graduates and undergraduates to join their staff in the most effective way.

Nic Dakin Portrait Nic Dakin (Scunthorpe) (Lab)
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The Support Our Sixth-formers funding impact assessment, which was published today, shows general sixth-form education under real strain. Bearing in mind that each sixth former is funded at £4,500, compared with £5,700 for a pupil aged between 11 to 16, will the Secretary of State take the opportunity of the Budget to use last year’s underspend and uplift funding by £200 for each student aged 16 to 18?

Justine Greening Portrait Justine Greening
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We have maintained that rate across the course of this spending review. It is probably not for me to pre-empt what will be in the Budget.