Asked by: Scott Mann (Conservative - North Cornwall)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how North Cornwall can bid for the National Centre for Computing funding of £84 million.
Answered by Nick Gibb
Launched in November 2018, the National Centre for Computing Education (NCCE) is a comprehensive programme aimed at improving the teaching of computing and participation in computer science. Funding and delivery of this programme is through a network of computing hubs, and in July 2019, NCCE announced the first tranche of 23 hubs.
Truro and Penwith College is the first hub appointed in Cornwall. The Department will have a network of computing hubs offering full geographical coverage across England, by the end of the year. Schools and colleges can access support for teaching through the NCCE website or through their local computing hub.
Asked by: Scott Mann (Conservative - North Cornwall)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department is taking to allocate additional funding to vocational training in order to improve social mobility in North Cornwall.
Answered by Anne Milton
The further education sector plays a key role in ensuring quality vocational training opportunities and improving social mobility across England, including in North Cornwall. We have protected the base rate of funding for 16 to 19 year olds until the end of the current spending review period in 2020. Additional funding is provided through the 16 to 19 funding formula, including over £500 million across England in 2018-19 to support disadvantaged students and therefore improving social mobility. Overall, the government plans to invest nearly £7 billion nationally during 2018-19 to ensure that there is a place in education or training for every 16 to 19 year old.
Through the Adult Education Budget, we are continuing to invest in further education for adults aged 19 and above, including those who are furthest from the labour market, to support their progression to further study, employment or an apprenticeship. We are also supporting adults who have been motivated to move out of unemployment and are in low-paid or low-skilled jobs to upskill at no charge and to progress further.
We are creating 3 million high quality apprenticeships that will change the lives of apprentices and the prospects of businesses. Apprenticeships disproportionately benefit people from lower socio-economic backgrounds. Delivering more and better quality apprenticeships will ensure that more people from these backgrounds are enabled to gain the skills and training they need to build successful careers.
The European Social Fund (ESF) has been an important source of skills and employment funding used to support those furthest from learning and the labour market. Following Brexit, whilst we will no longer have access to the ESF, the government has committed to create a UK Shared Prosperity Fund to reduce inequalities between communities and help deliver sustainable, inclusive growth.
The department works closely with HM Treasury (HMT) in considering further education funding. We are considering the efficiency and resilience of the sector and assessing how far current funding and regulatory structures enable high quality provision, including vocational training. We continue to look carefully at these issues with HMT in preparation for the Spending Review.
Asked by: Scott Mann (Conservative - North Cornwall)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what additional funding his Department provides to schools to support students in low income households in (a) North Cornwall constituency and b) London.
Answered by Nick Gibb
The pupil premium grant is given to schools specifically to support disadvantaged pupils to reach their potential. In 2017-18, North Cornwall had 2,822 pupils who were eligible for the pupil premium and schools were allocated £3.2 million. In London, 373,523 pupils were eligible and schools were allocated £437.1 million. The full 2017-18 allocations can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/pupil-premium-conditions-of-grant-2017-to-2018. Both London and Cornwall received the same amount of funding through the pupil premium for each primary school pupil and for each secondary school pupil.
In addition, the national funding formula allocates additional funding in respect of pupils who are currently eligible for free school meals (FSM), or who have been at any point in the past six years. Each primary school pupil currently eligible for FSM attracts £980 through the formula, and each secondary pupil attracts £1,225. These rates are the same across the country. Further details on the national funding formula can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-funding-formula-tables-for-schools-and-high-needs.
Asked by: Scott Mann (Conservative - North Cornwall)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will assess the potential merits of including cardiopulmonary resuscitation in the student curriculum.
Answered by Nick Gibb
Schools are already able to teach emergency first aid and life-saving skills in a variety of ways, for example through the wider curriculum, assemblies or Personal, Social, Health and Economic (PSHE) education. In doing so, schools are able to draw on curriculum materials from expert organisations such as the PSHE Association and free teaching kits such as those from the British Heart Foundation.
As part of our reforms to relationships education and relationships and sex education, the Department has been considering whether to make PSHE education compulsory. This has included holding a call for evidence and engaging with organisations such as the British Heart Foundation, the British Red Cross and St John Ambulance. We will be publishing the results from this engagement shortly, alongside revised statutory guidance, before the guidance and the associated regulations, are debated in Parliament.
Asked by: Scott Mann (Conservative - North Cornwall)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what information his Department holds on the number of people undertaking paid apprenticeships in North Cornwall.
Answered by Anne Milton
The department holds and publishes a range of data relating to apprenticeships using the information collected through the Individualised Learner Return. For example, information on the number of learners starting apprenticeships by geographical area, including by parliamentary constituency is published on GOV.UK. The table below provides apprenticeship starts for the North Cornwall Constituency in the 2016/17 academic year and in the first quarter of the 2017/18 academic year:
| 2016/17 | 2017/18 Quarter 1 |
Apprenticeship Starts | 760 | 170 |
Notes:
1) Volumes are rounded to the nearest 10.
2) 2016/17 covers August 2016 to July 2017, and 2017/18 Quarter 1 covers August to October 2017.
These data are published in the FE data library on GOV.UK:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/fe-data-library-apprenticeships.
Additionally, statistics showing the destinations outcomes of learners completing apprenticeships between 2014 and 2015 are available in the FE outcome-based success measures publication:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/further-education-outcome-based-success-measures-2014-to-2015. For example, in Cornwall, 2,760 apprenticeships from 2014/15 completed apprenticeships with 82% having a sustained employment rate, 17% having a sustained learning rate, and 85% having a sustained positive destination rate.
It should also be noted, that all learners starting apprenticeships are paid at least the minimum wage. Additional information on the rules and regulations of employing apprentices is available on GOV.UK:
https://www.gov.uk/take-on-an-apprentice.
Asked by: Scott Mann (Conservative - North Cornwall)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much his Department plans to spend on childcare for disadvantaged children in 2018 in (a) Cornwall and (b) North Cornwall.
Answered by Nadhim Zahawi
The government funds 15 hours of free childcare a week for disadvantaged children aged two, three and four, as well as the early years pupil premium for disadvantaged three and four year olds.
Early years funding is allocated on a local authority basis and Cornwall’s funding allocations for the following financial years can be found at the following links:
2018/19 (Initial allocation): https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dedicated-schools-grant-dsg-2018-to-2019.
2017/18 (Provisional allocation): https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/
dedicated-schools-grant-dsg-2017-to-2018.
Asked by: Scott Mann (Conservative - North Cornwall)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much has been allocated from the public purse for 16 and 17-year olds studying in further education per capita in (a) England, (b) Cornwall and (c) North Cornwall in each of the last five years.
Answered by Anne Milton
Allocations for students studying at post-16 institutions are not available separately for students aged 16 and 17, although data on allocations and student numbers are available for 16 to 19 year olds as set out in published allocations data. The following allocations show the average funding per student in England, Cornwall and North Cornwall for the last five academic years.
Average funding per student | |||||
| 2013/14 | 2014/15 | 2015/16 | 2016/17 | 2017/18 |
England | £4,685 | £4,586 | £4,639 | £4,625 | £4,625 |
Cornwall | £4,389 | £4,355 | £4,480 | £4,541 | £4,554 |
North Cornwall | £4,157 | £4,140 | £4,281 | £4,258 | £4,267 |
The above figures exclude high needs funding but include both full and part-time students, and allocations for the 16 to 19 bursary fund and free meals funding.
Institutions in Cornwall and North Cornwall are funded through the same national funding formula as the rest of England and have received the same £4,000 base rate of funding for full time 16 and 17 year olds throughout the period. Average funding per student in Cornwall and North Cornwall is lower due to other factors in the 16 to 19 funding formula, for example, institutions in Cornwall do not attract an area cost uplift for higher delivery costs like those in London and South East England.
Asked by: Scott Mann (Conservative - North Cornwall)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what additional funding his Department provides to schools to support students with special educational needs in (a) North Cornwall and (b) England.
Answered by Nadhim Zahawi
Funding for students with special educational needs (SEN) is contained within the high needs block of the dedicated schools grant. In 2017-18 this funding came to £5.8 billion for England, and in 2018-19 this will rise to £6 billion.
The first £6,000 of additional funding for SEN pupils comes from schools’ budgets. Beyond this, high needs funding, which is allocated to local authorities, is spent in consultation with their schools forum.
In 2017-18 Cornwall was allocated £39 million to be used for this purpose, and in 2018-19 this will rise by 3.6 per cent to £40.4 million. This information is available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dedicated-schools-grant-dsg-2018-to-2019.
Asked by: Scott Mann (Conservative - North Cornwall)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of young people in north Cornwall who completed A-Level studies enrolled in university courses in each year since 2010.
Answered by Sam Gyimah
The attached table shows the number and proportion of students that were at the end of 16‑18 study (taking A level or other level 3 qualifications) in North Cornwall and progressed to study at a UK Higher Education Institution for at least two terms in a given academic year. Information on destinations in academic years 2010-11 to 2015-16 is given. This is the most recent data available. Destinations data for all England are provided for comparison.
Information on pupil destinations is published annually on GOV.UK at: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-destinations.
Asked by: Scott Mann (Conservative - North Cornwall)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of young people in north Cornwall ,took up an apprenticeship after completing GCSEs, in each year since 2010.
Answered by Anne Milton
The table attached shows the number and proportion of pupils who completed key stage 4 (including GCSEs) in North Cornwall and took up an apprenticeship the following year as part of at least two terms’ education, employment or training. Information on destinations in academic years 2010-11 to 2015-16 is given. This is the most recent data available. Destinations data for all of England is provided for comparison.
Information on pupil destinations is published annually on GOV.UK at: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-destinations.