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Division Votes
15 May 2024 - Criminal Justice Bill - View Vote Context
Robert Halfon voted No - in line with the party majority and in line with the House
One of 272 Conservative No votes vs 0 Conservative Aye votes
Tally: Ayes - 167 Noes - 275
15 May 2024 - Criminal Justice Bill - View Vote Context
Robert Halfon voted No - in line with the party majority and in line with the House
One of 260 Conservative No votes vs 1 Conservative Aye votes
Tally: Ayes - 17 Noes - 268
15 May 2024 - Criminal Justice Bill - View Vote Context
Robert Halfon voted No - in line with the party majority and in line with the House
One of 268 Conservative No votes vs 0 Conservative Aye votes
Tally: Ayes - 171 Noes - 272
21 May 2024 - Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill - View Vote Context
Robert Halfon voted No - in line with the party majority and in line with the House
One of 259 Conservative No votes vs 0 Conservative Aye votes
Tally: Ayes - 217 Noes - 268
21 May 2024 - High Speed Rail (Crewe - Manchester) Bill (Instruction) (No. 3) - View Vote Context
Robert Halfon voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House
One of 222 Conservative Aye votes vs 5 Conservative No votes
Tally: Ayes - 323 Noes - 7
22 May 2024 - Holocaust Memorial Bill - View Vote Context
Robert Halfon voted No - in line with the party majority and in line with the House
One of 179 Conservative No votes vs 11 Conservative Aye votes
Tally: Ayes - 11 Noes - 182
23 May 2024 - Finance (No.2) Bill - View Vote Context
Robert Halfon voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House
One of 210 Conservative Aye votes vs 0 Conservative No votes
Tally: Ayes - 215 Noes - 19
24 May 2024 - Tribunal and Inquiries - View Vote Context
Robert Halfon voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House
One of 131 Conservative Aye votes vs 0 Conservative No votes
Tally: Ayes - 135 Noes - 10


Speeches
Robert Halfon speeches from: Valedictory Debate
Robert Halfon contributed 4 speeches (2,656 words)
Friday 24th May 2024 - Commons Chamber
Department for Work and Pensions


Written Answers
Teachers: Pay
Asked by: Robert Halfon (Conservative - Harlow)
Tuesday 21st May 2024

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the impact of the levelling up premium payments for school teachers on recruitment of teachers in shortage subjects.

Answered by Damian Hinds

Mathematics, physics, chemistry and computing secondary school teachers in the first five years of their career who work in eligible schools have been able to claim Levelling Up Premium (LUP) payments of up to £3,000 after tax since September 2022. For the 2024/25 and 2025/26 academic years, the department is doubling the LUP payments to eligible school teachers to up to £6,000 per year after tax and extending the offer to key science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) and technical subject teachers in all further education colleges for the first time.

A new school teacher receiving a £6,000 LUP will have an income equivalent of at least a £38,570 starting salary next year, even before accounting for the next pay award.

The number of teachers that have received LUP payments by region are below:

Sum of claims by academic year

Region

2022/23

2023/2024

East of England

337

371

East Midlands

421

401

London

1112

1170

North East

238

251

North West

762

790

South East

304

314

South West

241

246

West Midlands

603

594

Yorkshire and The Humber

597

603

Total

4615

4740

The number of teachers that have received LUP payments by subject are below:

Sum of claims by academic year

Subject

2022/23

2023/24

Mathematics

2518

2609

Physics

459

456

Chemistry

1044

1101

Computing

595

574

Total

4615

4740

The LUP is primarily designed to incentivise the retention of specialist teachers in the disadvantaged schools it targets, but it may also support recruitment by encouraging teachers to take up posts in these schools.

It is too early to fully evaluate the impact of the LUP, but it is possible to draw on evidence from the predecessor pilots which informed it. For example, a University College London (UCL) evaluation of the Mathematics and Physics Teacher Retention Payments pilot found that teachers who received these £2,000 after tax payments were 23% less likely to leave teaching. Furthermore, an evaluation of Early Career Payments assessed they reduced the likelihood of teachers leaving by 37% for the £5,000 payments, and 58% for the £7,500 payments.

Mathematics, physics, chemistry and computing trainees starting school initial teacher teaching (ITT) in the 2024/25 academic year can already benefit from tax free bursaries worth £28,000 and scholarships worth £30,000. These ITT incentives are a national offer and are not differentiated sub-nationally. This is because teachers often teach in a different school or area to that they trained in. The Levelling Up Premium is paid to school teachers once they are qualified and is therefore targeted sub-nationally to incentivise them to work in the schools most in need.

Teachers: Pay
Asked by: Robert Halfon (Conservative - Harlow)
Tuesday 21st May 2024

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate her Department has made of the number of teachers who have received levelling up premium payments for school teachers since May 2022 by (a) region and (b) subject.

Answered by Damian Hinds

Mathematics, physics, chemistry and computing secondary school teachers in the first five years of their career who work in eligible schools have been able to claim Levelling Up Premium (LUP) payments of up to £3,000 after tax since September 2022. For the 2024/25 and 2025/26 academic years, the department is doubling the LUP payments to eligible school teachers to up to £6,000 per year after tax and extending the offer to key science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) and technical subject teachers in all further education colleges for the first time.

A new school teacher receiving a £6,000 LUP will have an income equivalent of at least a £38,570 starting salary next year, even before accounting for the next pay award.

The number of teachers that have received LUP payments by region are below:

Sum of claims by academic year

Region

2022/23

2023/2024

East of England

337

371

East Midlands

421

401

London

1112

1170

North East

238

251

North West

762

790

South East

304

314

South West

241

246

West Midlands

603

594

Yorkshire and The Humber

597

603

Total

4615

4740

The number of teachers that have received LUP payments by subject are below:

Sum of claims by academic year

Subject

2022/23

2023/24

Mathematics

2518

2609

Physics

459

456

Chemistry

1044

1101

Computing

595

574

Total

4615

4740

The LUP is primarily designed to incentivise the retention of specialist teachers in the disadvantaged schools it targets, but it may also support recruitment by encouraging teachers to take up posts in these schools.

It is too early to fully evaluate the impact of the LUP, but it is possible to draw on evidence from the predecessor pilots which informed it. For example, a University College London (UCL) evaluation of the Mathematics and Physics Teacher Retention Payments pilot found that teachers who received these £2,000 after tax payments were 23% less likely to leave teaching. Furthermore, an evaluation of Early Career Payments assessed they reduced the likelihood of teachers leaving by 37% for the £5,000 payments, and 58% for the £7,500 payments.

Mathematics, physics, chemistry and computing trainees starting school initial teacher teaching (ITT) in the 2024/25 academic year can already benefit from tax free bursaries worth £28,000 and scholarships worth £30,000. These ITT incentives are a national offer and are not differentiated sub-nationally. This is because teachers often teach in a different school or area to that they trained in. The Levelling Up Premium is paid to school teachers once they are qualified and is therefore targeted sub-nationally to incentivise them to work in the schools most in need.

Teachers: Pay
Asked by: Robert Halfon (Conservative - Harlow)
Tuesday 21st May 2024

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of extending levelling up premium payments to teachers in training with initial teacher training providers in disadvantaged communities.

Answered by Damian Hinds

Mathematics, physics, chemistry and computing secondary school teachers in the first five years of their career who work in eligible schools have been able to claim Levelling Up Premium (LUP) payments of up to £3,000 after tax since September 2022. For the 2024/25 and 2025/26 academic years, the department is doubling the LUP payments to eligible school teachers to up to £6,000 per year after tax and extending the offer to key science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) and technical subject teachers in all further education colleges for the first time.

A new school teacher receiving a £6,000 LUP will have an income equivalent of at least a £38,570 starting salary next year, even before accounting for the next pay award.

The number of teachers that have received LUP payments by region are below:

Sum of claims by academic year

Region

2022/23

2023/2024

East of England

337

371

East Midlands

421

401

London

1112

1170

North East

238

251

North West

762

790

South East

304

314

South West

241

246

West Midlands

603

594

Yorkshire and The Humber

597

603

Total

4615

4740

The number of teachers that have received LUP payments by subject are below:

Sum of claims by academic year

Subject

2022/23

2023/24

Mathematics

2518

2609

Physics

459

456

Chemistry

1044

1101

Computing

595

574

Total

4615

4740

The LUP is primarily designed to incentivise the retention of specialist teachers in the disadvantaged schools it targets, but it may also support recruitment by encouraging teachers to take up posts in these schools.

It is too early to fully evaluate the impact of the LUP, but it is possible to draw on evidence from the predecessor pilots which informed it. For example, a University College London (UCL) evaluation of the Mathematics and Physics Teacher Retention Payments pilot found that teachers who received these £2,000 after tax payments were 23% less likely to leave teaching. Furthermore, an evaluation of Early Career Payments assessed they reduced the likelihood of teachers leaving by 37% for the £5,000 payments, and 58% for the £7,500 payments.

Mathematics, physics, chemistry and computing trainees starting school initial teacher teaching (ITT) in the 2024/25 academic year can already benefit from tax free bursaries worth £28,000 and scholarships worth £30,000. These ITT incentives are a national offer and are not differentiated sub-nationally. This is because teachers often teach in a different school or area to that they trained in. The Levelling Up Premium is paid to school teachers once they are qualified and is therefore targeted sub-nationally to incentivise them to work in the schools most in need.




Robert Halfon mentioned

Parliamentary Debates
Oral Answers to Questions
166 speeches (9,407 words)
Monday 4th November 2024 - Commons Chamber
Department for Education
Mentions:
1: James Wild (Con - North West Norfolk) the last Government on driving up apprenticeships, and in particular the work done by our colleague Robert - Link to Speech

Education and Opportunity
125 speeches (45,348 words)
Wednesday 24th July 2024 - Commons Chamber
Department for International Development
Mentions:
1: Chris Vince (LAB - Harlow) demands and deserves the utmost service from its Members of Parliament, and in my direct predecessor, Robert - Link to Speech

Valedictory Debate
114 speeches (57,382 words)
Friday 24th May 2024 - Commons Chamber
Department for Work and Pensions
Mentions:
1: Julian Knight (Ind - Solihull) Member for Harlow (Robert Halfon), who has been a tireless and unflinching worker for motorists, as I - Link to Speech
2: Nickie Aiken (Con - Cities of London and Westminster) Friend the Member for Harlow (Robert Halfon), who is no longer in his place, for getting me into the - Link to Speech
3: Lucy Powell (LAB - Manchester Central) Member for Harlow (Robert Halfon) has been a great campaigner, a great parliamentarian and a good friend - Link to Speech
4: Marcus Jones (Con - Nuneaton) Friend the Member for Harlow (Robert Halfon) made a characteristic speech. - Link to Speech

Business of the House
94 speeches (14,516 words)
Thursday 23rd May 2024 - Commons Chamber
Leader of the House
Mentions:
1: Lucy Powell (LAB - Manchester Central) Member for Harlow (Robert Halfon) was an outstanding Chair of the Education Committee, on which we served - Link to Speech



Select Committee Documents
Wednesday 23rd October 2024
Correspondence - Letter from the Chair, Baroness Taylor of Bolton, to Rt Hon Baroness Smith of Malvern, Minister for Skills on skills for the future: apprenticeships and training, dated 23 October 2024

Industry and Regulators Committee

Found: See also Q 4 (Robert Halfon), QQ 25 -26, 29 (Jane Gratton, Sally Andreou) , Q 31 (Nicola Drury), QQ

Wednesday 11th September 2024
Written Evidence - University Vocational Awards Council (UVAC)
SFF0018 - Skills for the future: apprenticeships and training

Skills for the future: apprenticeships and training - Industry and Regulators Committee

Found: introduction of the apprenticeship levy in 2017, apprenticeship provision was dominated by low level and 4 Robert

Wednesday 11th September 2024
Written Evidence - University College of Estate Management
SFF0015 - Skills for the future: apprenticeships and training

Skills for the future: apprenticeships and training - Industry and Regulators Committee

Found: www.apprenticeships.gov.uk/employers/funding-an-apprenticeship- non-levy [accessed 24 May 2024] 9 See response by Robert

Wednesday 29th May 2024
Formal Minutes - Formal Minutes, Commons Liaison Committee, 2022-2023

Liaison Committee (Commons)

Found: Bernard Jenkin , in the Chair Chris Bryant Stephen Crabb Tobias Ellwood Sir Robert Goodwill Robert

Friday 24th May 2024
Formal Minutes - Formal Minutes 2023-24

Education Committee

Found: Professor Stuart Elborn , Provost and Deputy Vice -Chancellor , Queen’s University Belfast ; Rt Hon Robert

Thursday 23rd May 2024
Correspondence - Letter from Luke Hall MP, Minister for Skills, Apprenticeships and Higher Education at the Department for Education, to the Senior Deputy Speaker on the Select Committee on Youth Unemployment

Liaison Committee (Lords)

Found: SW1A 0P W 14th May 2024 Dear John, Thank you for your letter of 26th February 202 4 to Robert



Parliamentary Research
House of Lords: Maiden and valedictory speeches, 2022–2024 - LLN-2024-0052
Sep. 19 2024

Found: I use this opportunity to pay tribute to my right honourable friend Robert Halfon, who has championed



Department Publications - Transparency
Monday 29th July 2024
Department for Education
Source Page: Department for Education consolidated annual report and accounts 2023 to 2024
Document: (PDF)

Found: for Schools • Rt Hon Damian Hinds MP from 13 November 2023, Minister of State for Schools • Rt Hon Robert

Monday 29th July 2024
Department for Education
Source Page: Department for Education consolidated annual report and accounts 2023 to 2024
Document: (PDF)

Found: for Schools • Rt Hon Damian Hinds MP from 13 November 2023, Minister of State for Schools • Rt Hon Robert



Non-Departmental Publications - News and Communications
Oct. 03 2024
Advisory Committee on Business Appointments
Source Page: Halfon, Robert- Minister of State for Skills, Apprenticeships and Higher Education, Department for Education - ACOBA advice.
Document: letter (PDF)
News and Communications

Found: acoba.gov.uk Website: http://www.gov.uk/acob a August 2024 BUSINESS APPOINTMENT APPLICA TION: The Rt Hon Robert

Oct. 03 2024
Advisory Committee on Business Appointments
Source Page: Halfon, Robert- Minister of State for Skills, Apprenticeships and Higher Education, Department for Education - ACOBA advice.
Document: (PDF)
News and Communications

Found: acoba.gov.uk Website: http://www.gov.uk/acob a August 2024 BUSINESS APPOINTMENT APPLICA TION: The Rt Hon Robert

Oct. 03 2024
Advisory Committee on Business Appointments
Source Page: Halfon, Robert- Minister of State for Skills, Apprenticeships and Higher Education, Department for Education - ACOBA advice.
Document: (PDF)
News and Communications

Found: acoba.gov.uk Website: http://www.gov.uk/acob a August 2024 BUSINESS APPOINTMENT APPLICA TION: The Rt Hon Robert

Oct. 03 2024
Advisory Committee on Business Appointments
Source Page: Halfon, Robert- Minister of State for Skills, Apprenticeships and Higher Education, Department for Education - ACOBA advice.
Document: letter (PDF)
News and Communications

Found: acoba.gov.uk Website: http://www.gov.uk/acob a August 2024 BUSINESS APPOINTMENT APPLICA TION: The Rt Hon Robert

Oct. 03 2024
Advisory Committee on Business Appointments
Source Page: Halfon, Robert- Minister of State for Skills, Apprenticeships and Higher Education, Department for Education - ACOBA advice.
Document: Halfon, Robert- Minister of State for Skills, Apprenticeships and Higher Education, Department for Education - ACOBA advice. (webpage)
News and Communications

Found: Advice to The Rt Hon Robert Halfon, Minister of State for Skills, Apprenticeships and Higher Education

Oct. 03 2024
Advisory Committee on Business Appointments
Source Page: Halfon, Robert- Minister of State for Skills, Apprenticeships and Higher Education, Department for Education - ACOBA advice.
Document: (PDF)
News and Communications

Found: acoba.gov.uk Website: http://www.gov.uk/acob a August 2024 BUSINESS APPOINTMENT APPLICA TION: The Rt Hon Robert

Oct. 03 2024
Advisory Committee on Business Appointments
Source Page: Halfon, Robert- Minister of State for Skills, Apprenticeships and Higher Education, Department for Education - ACOBA advice.
Document: letter (PDF)
News and Communications

Found: acoba.gov.uk Website: http://www.gov.uk/acob a August 2024 BUSINESS APPOINTMENT APPLICA TION: The Rt Hon Robert

Oct. 03 2024
Advisory Committee on Business Appointments
Source Page: Halfon, Robert- Minister of State for Skills, Apprenticeships and Higher Education, Department for Education - ACOBA advice.
Document: (PDF)
News and Communications

Found: Website: http://www.gov.uk/acoba September 2024 BUSINESS APPOINTMENT APPLICATION: The Rt Hon Robert



Non-Departmental Publications - Transparency
Jul. 25 2024
Office for Students
Source Page: Office for Students: annual report and accounts 2023 to 2024
Document: (PDF)
Transparency

Found: Last year the Minister for Skills, Apprenticeships and Higher Education, Robert Halfon , set a target

Apr. 23 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Source Page: Intergovernmental Relations Annual Report 2023
Document: (PDF)
Transparency

Found: Gove MP , supported by the then Skills, Apprenticeships and Higher Education Minister, the Rt Hon Robert