Asked by: Mike Kane (Labour - Wythenshawe and Sale East)
Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much the British Film Institute has spent in each region in each of the last three years.
Answered by Julia Lopez - Minister of State (Department for Science, Innovation and Technology)
At the heart of the British Film Institute’s ten year strategy, Screen Culture 2033, is a core principle for the work of the BFI to reach across the UK, so that everyone across the regions and all four nations can experience, create and benefit from screen culture.
The below table has been extracted from data that government publishes on identifiable expenditure in the regions and nations of the UK.
It shows all expenditure in 2021/22 prices, to provide a more accurate picture accounting for inflation.
BFI Country and Region Spend 2019-2022; 2021-22 prices
Country/Region | 2019-20 | 2020-21 | 2021-22 | Total |
Scotland | £1,629,000 | £2,132,000 | £2,049,000 | £5,810,000 |
Wales | £971,000 | £1,271,000 | £1,108,000 | £3,350,000 |
Northern Ireland | £5,076,000 | £5,029,000 | £6,565,000 | £16,670,000 |
England - North East | £802,000 | £1,284,000 | £889,000 | £2,975,000 |
England - North West | £2,234,000 | £4,162,000 | £2,675,000 | £9,071,000 |
England - Yorkshire and the Humber | £1,730,000 | £5,147,000 | £2,706,000 | £9,583,000 |
England - East Midlands | £1,560,000 | £6,522,000 | £1,727,000 | £9,809,000 |
England - West Midlands | £1,959,000 | £4,380,000 | £2,454,000 | £8,793,000 |
England - East | £6,200,000 | £15,438,000 | £6,944,000 | £28,582,000 |
England - London | £10,155,000 | £21,422,000 | £13,668,000 | £45,245,000 |
England - South East | £3,607,000 | £7,781,000 | £5,365,000 | £16,840,000 |
England - South West | £1,793,000 | £6,181,000 | £2,633,000 | £10,607,000 |
Outside UK | £971,000 | £1,330,000 | £1,006,000 | £3,307,000 |
Total | £38,687,000 | £82,169,000 | £49,786,000 | £170,642,000 |
Whilst BFI spending in London and the South East accounts for almost 36% of its total spending over 2019-22, this is due in part to the relatively high proportion of the industry based in London and the South East (70%) and also, due to the established method of recording awards based on applicant postcode, does not capture the broader outputs and widespread impact of organisations based in London and the South East but delivering on a regional or UK-wide basis.
For example, BFI National Lottery distribution awards - such as the award which supported Parasite to reach 1.6 million people across the UK - are used to give audiences everywhere the chance to enjoy the widest possible range of films; overall, titles supported by distribution awards have generated 4.5 million admissions across every corner of the UK over the course of 2017-2022. The Light Cinema Co. received £3 million from the Culture Recovery Fund and, whilst its head office is in London, the award was used to support its 10 cinemas, 7 of which are in the North of England. And ‘Into Film’, a London-based organisation who received £24 million from the BFI over 2017-2022, used this funding to deliver Film Clubs in UK schools, reaching in the last year alone more than 3 million children at over 6,500 schools across the UK. Through its National Lottery Funding Plan, the BFI will be devolving even more funding to organisations across the regions and nations through its National Lottery Skills Clusters Fund, which will invest £9 million in 6-7 clusters across the UK to lead on skills and training in their area, making sure people from a wide range of places have the opportunity to get into the industry. The BFI also funds a network of organisations across the UK - including in Nottingham, Birmingham, Sheffield and Manchester - to lead audience and talent development work in their respective regions and nations, with £15.2 million to be awarded to 11 partner organisations over the next three years.
Asked by: Bridget Phillipson (Labour - Houghton and Sunderland South)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 31 January 2023 to Question 133599 on Supply Teachers, how much was spent on teaching staff supplied by recruitment agencies in each year since 2016.
Answered by Nick Gibb
Information on local authority maintained school expenditure is collected in Consistent Financial Reporting (CFR) returns and relates to expenditure in the financial year. Academy expenditure is collected in Academies Accounts Returns (AAR) and relates to expenditure in the academic year. This information is subsequently published on the Schools Financial Benchmarking website, and for local authority maintained schools, in the annual official statistic ‘LA and school expenditure’ which can be accessed here: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/la-and-school-expenditure.
Spending on supply teaching staff comprises the following categories:
These costs should be offset against receipts from supply teacher insurance claims.
Information on expenditure on agency supply teaching staff only is shown in the table below. Information for academies for the academic year 2021/22 is not yet available. The figures below are presented in cash terms and not adjusted for inflation.
Expenditure (£ million) on agency teaching staff recruitment in state-funded schools in England, by year1
Financial years | |||||||
Type | 2015-16 | 2016-17 | 2017-18 | 2018-19 | 2019-20 | 2020-21 | 2021-22 |
LA maintained schools2 | £554.6 | £520.4 | £451.2 | £425.8 | £410.7 | £274.6 | £415.0 |
Number of schools making a CFR return | 16,774 | 16,106 | 15,052 | 13,959 | 13,158 | 12,655 | 12,221 |
Academic years | |||||||
Type | 2015/16 | 2016/17 | 2017/18 | 2018/19 | 2019/20 | 2020/21 | 2021/22 |
Academies3 | £282.2 | £301.8 | £390.6 | £368.0 | £326.8 | £330.1 | . |
Academy Trusts3 | £1.6 | £2.4 | £8.7 | £5.1 | £6.5 | £10.1 | . |
Total academy spend | £283.8 | £304.2 | £399.3 | £373.1 | £333.3 | £340.2 | . |
Number of academies making an AAR return | 6,330 | 7,014 | 8,150 | 8,929 | 9,453 | 9,821 | . |
Source: Academies Accounts Returns and Consistent Financial Reporting returns.
1 Year refers to financial year for LA maintained schools and academic year for academies.
2 LA maintained school expenditure line E26 “agency supply teaching staff”.
3 Academy expenditure line BNCH21606 “agency supply teaching staff”.
Asked by: Nadia Whittome (Labour - Nottingham East)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to Building Beyond Barriers – A roadmap for enhancing financial education in schools of the APPG on Financial Education for Young People, published on February 2023, if she will take steps to help ensure that all school-aged children receive financial education by 2030.
Answered by Nick Gibb
Financial education forms part of the National Curriculum for citizenship at Key Stages 3 and 4 but can be taught by all schools at all Key Stages. More information can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/national-curriculum. The subject covers the functions and uses of money, the importance of personal budgeting, money management, and managing financial risk. At secondary school, pupils are taught income and expenditure, credit and debt, insurance, savings and pensions, financial products and services, and how public money is raised and spent.
The mathematics curriculum includes an emphasis on the essential arithmetic that primary pupils should be taught. A strong grasp of mathematics will underpin pupils’ ability to manage budgets and money, including, for example, using percentages. The secondary mathematics curriculum develops pupils’ understanding in relation to more complex personal finance issues, such as calculating loan repayments, interest rates and compound interest.
The Department works closely with the Money and Pensions Service (MaPS) and HM Treasury to consider the wide range of evidence for financial education and to explore the opportunities to improve availability of high quality financial education. MaPS has a statutory duty to develop and co-ordinate a national strategy to improve people’s financial capabilities and their ten year strategy, published in 2020, set out their national goal that two million more pupils and young people will receive a meaningful financial education by 2030. The strategy is supported by Delivery Plans for each nation of the UK and details can be found here:https://www.maps.org.uk/uk-strategy-for-financial-wellbeing/.
There is a wide range of support available. MaPS published financial education guidance for primary and secondary schools in England to support head teachers and education decision makers to enhance the financial education currently delivered in their schools. This guidance is available at: https://maps.org.uk/2021/11/11/financial-education-guidance-for-primary-and-secondary-schools-in-england/.
Asked by: Stephen Morgan (Labour - Portsmouth South)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many staff were employed to support pupils with special educational needs and disabilities in each year since 2010; and how much funding her Department provided for these staff in the same period.
Answered by Claire Coutinho - Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero
The department is committed to ensuring that all pupils, including those with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) can reach their potential and receive excellent support from their teachers.
Alongside excellent teachers, teaching assistants play an important role supporting pupils with SEND to fulfil their potential in mainstream and special schools.
Information on the school workforce in England is collected as part of the annual School Workforce Census each November. Information is published in the ‘School Workforce in England’ statistical publication, which can be accessed here: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-workforce-in-england.
Financial information on local authority and school expenditure, including staff costs, is published in the annual official statistic ‘LA and school expenditure.’ This can be accessed here: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/la-and-school-expenditure. The latest figures available are for the 2021/22 financial year, in which £11.7 billion was spent on teaching staff and £4.4 billion on education support staff.
Within that publication, information can be found on high needs place funding from both the individual schools budget and high needs funding from the local authority budget. High needs funding is specifically for supporting children with more complex SEND. In the 2021/22 financial year there was £1.1 billion of high needs place funding within the individual schools budget, plus £6.6 billion on high needs expenditure outside the individual schools budget.
Asked by: Bridget Phillipson (Labour - Houghton and Sunderland South)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate her Department has made of the cost to the public purse of employing teachers supplied by recruitment agencies between 2010 and 2017.
Answered by Nick Gibb
Information on Local Authority maintained school expenditure is collected in Consistent Financial Reporting returns. Academy expenditure is collected in Academies Accounts Returns. This information is subsequently published on the School Financial Benchmarking website, and for Local Authority maintained schools, in the annual official statistic ‘Local Authority and school expenditure’. This can be found here: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/la-and-school-expenditure.
Data for Local Authority maintained schools covers 1 April 2010 to 31 March 2017, and for academies and academy trusts covers 1 September 2011 to 31 August 2016. Due to changes in the collection of academy data, and the increase in the number of academies, figures prior to 2017 are not comparable.
Expenditure on agency teaching staff recruitment in state-funded schools in England, by year1 (£1,000s)
| 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 |
Local authority maintained schools2 | £483,220 | £431,839 | £469,078 | £523,195 | £559,627 | £554,643 | £520,419 |
Academies3,4 | - | - | £47,800 | £152,556 | £209,825 | £295,269 | £271,925 |
Total | £483,220 | £431,839 | £516,878 | £675,751 | £769,452 | £849,912 | £792,344 |
- Data not available.
Source: Academies Accounts Returns and Consistent Financial Reporting returns.
1 Year refers to financial year for local authority maintained schools (e.g. 2016 = 1 April 2016 – 31 March 2017) and academic year for academies (e.g. 2016 = 1 September 2015 – 31 August 2016).
2 Local authority maintained school expenditure line E26 'agency supply teaching staff'.
3 Academy expenditure line BNCH21606 'agency supply teaching staff'.
4 Includes only complete year returns (i.e. excludes academies that were only open for part of the year) and excludes centra service expenditure.
Asked by: Bridget Phillipson (Labour - Houghton and Sunderland South)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the cost to the public purse of employing supply teachers in maintained schools in England in each year since 2017.
Answered by Nick Gibb
Financial information on Local Authority maintained schools, including spending on supply teachers, is collected in Consistent Financial Reporting (CFR) returns. It is subsequently published on the School Financial Benchmarking website and in the annual official statistic ‘LA and school expenditure’, which can be found here: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/la-and-school-expenditure.
Spending on supply teaching staff comprises the following categories:
These costs should be offset against receipts from supply teacher insurance claims.
Local authority maintained school expenditure on supply teaching staff, £ millions
Financial year: | 2016/17 | 2017/18 | 2018/19 | 2019/20 | 2020/21 | 2021/22 |
Supply teaching staff | £181.8 | £147.2 | £129.0 | £110.9 | £74.1 | £106.9 |
Supply teacher insurance | £136.1 | £126.5 | £115.9 | £108.3 | £103.0 | £99.9 |
Agency supply teaching staff | £520.4 | £451.2 | £425.8 | £410.7 | £274.6 | £415.0 |
Receipts from supply teacher insurance claims | £88.0 | £78.3 | £74.3 | £72.6 | £56.9 | £69.1 |
Number of schools completing CFR | 16,106 | 15,052 | 13,959 | 13,158 | 12,655 | 12,221 |
Total (£millions) | £750.3 | £646.7 | £596.4 | £557.3 | £394.7 | £552.7 |
Source: Consistent Financial Reporting returns.
Please note that the number of Local Authority maintained schools has decreased each year as a result of academisation. Local Authority maintained schools are required to provide a CFR return, whereas academies are required to return an Academies Accounts Return.
Asked by: Emily Thornberry (Labour - Islington South and Finsbury)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to his Department’s publication of spending over £25,000 for November 2022, what the nature was of the (a) engagement activity and (b) creative work for which M and C Saatchi UK Ltd was paid £60,000 on 11 November 2022 under the heading Adult Mental Health Partnership engagements and creatives 20.
Answered by Maria Caulfield - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
The Better Health – Every Mind Matters programme supports adults to take positive actions to support their own mental health. In addition to paid advertising, the programme relies heavily on engagement with a wide range of partner organisations who promote the campaign to their customers, staff and communities through channels and activities that cannot be bought through usual media buying processes.
The expenditure with M and C Saatchi UK Ltd supported a programme of engaging and negotiating support from businesses as diverse as banks, gyms, the building trade and driving schools, and the creation of a toolkit of campaign resources that all commercial, public sector and NGO partners can use, which includes creative assets such as social media posts, posters, newsletters etc.
For example, organisations might include content about, and signpost to, the Every Mind Matters programme in newsletters to customers, internal staff communications, promotion through their social media accounts, and face to face events. The combined reach of partners who provided supporting voices around Mental Health Awareness Week, May 2022 and World Mental Health Day, October 2022 was over 2.9 million.
Asked by: Emily Thornberry (Labour - Islington South and Finsbury)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what adult mental health partnership agreements have been secured for his Department by M and C Saatchi UK Ltd. since the start of financial year 2022-23.
Answered by Maria Caulfield - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
The Better Health – Every Mind Matters programme supports adults to take positive actions to support their own mental health. In addition to paid advertising, the programme relies heavily on engagement with a wide range of partner organisations who promote the campaign to their customers, staff and communities through channels and activities that cannot be bought through usual media buying processes.
The expenditure with M and C Saatchi UK Ltd supported a programme of engaging and negotiating support from businesses as diverse as banks, gyms, the building trade and driving schools, and the creation of a toolkit of campaign resources that all commercial, public sector and NGO partners can use, which includes creative assets such as social media posts, posters, newsletters etc.
For example, organisations might include content about, and signpost to, the Every Mind Matters programme in newsletters to customers, internal staff communications, promotion through their social media accounts, and face to face events. The combined reach of partners who provided supporting voices around Mental Health Awareness Week, May 2022 and World Mental Health Day, October 2022 was over 2.9 million.
Asked by: Stephen Morgan (Labour - Portsmouth South)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will take steps to ensure that all children in secondary schools receive financial education.
Answered by Nick Gibb
Financial education forms part of the citizenship National Curriculum at Key Stages 3 and 4, which is a statutory subject for Local Authority maintained schools, but can be taught by academies. Through citizenship, secondary school pupils are taught about income and expenditure, credit and debt, insurance, savings and pensions, financial products and services, and how public money is raised and spent.
The mathematics curriculum includes a strong emphasis on the essential arithmetic that primary pupils should be taught. A strong grasp of mathematics will underpin pupils’ ability to manage budgets and money, including, for example, using percentages. The secondary mathematics curriculum develops pupils’ understanding in relation to more complex personal finance issues such as calculating loan repayments, interest rates and compound interest.
My right hon. Friend, the Prime Minister, has set out a new mission to ensure all pupils study some form of mathematics to age 18. Studying mathematics to 18 will equip young people with the quantitative and statistical skills that they will need for the jobs of today and the future. This includes having the right skills to feel confident with finances in later life, including finding the best mortgage deal or savings rate.
The Government is not planning to make an assessment of access to financial education in each region. The Money and Pensions Service (MaPS) has a statutory objective to develop and co-ordinate a national strategy to improve people’s financial capabilities. The strategy is supported by Delivery Plans for each nation of the UK and further details can be found here: https://www.maps.org.uk/uk-strategy-for-financial-wellbeing/.
As part of this, MaPS has published guidance to support head teachers to enhance their financial education provision, which is available here: https://maps.org.uk/2021/11/11/financial-education-guidance-for-primary-and-secondary-schools-in-england/.
The Department and MaPS are planning a series of joint financial education webinars during this academic year, aimed at promoting the importance of financial education, improving pupils’ knowledge and teachers’ confidence.
Asked by: Stephen Morgan (Labour - Portsmouth South)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the level of regional disparities in access to financial education.
Answered by Nick Gibb
Financial education forms part of the citizenship National Curriculum at Key Stages 3 and 4, which is a statutory subject for Local Authority maintained schools, but can be taught by academies. Through citizenship, secondary school pupils are taught about income and expenditure, credit and debt, insurance, savings and pensions, financial products and services, and how public money is raised and spent.
The mathematics curriculum includes a strong emphasis on the essential arithmetic that primary pupils should be taught. A strong grasp of mathematics will underpin pupils’ ability to manage budgets and money, including, for example, using percentages. The secondary mathematics curriculum develops pupils’ understanding in relation to more complex personal finance issues such as calculating loan repayments, interest rates and compound interest.
My right hon. Friend, the Prime Minister, has set out a new mission to ensure all pupils study some form of mathematics to age 18. Studying mathematics to 18 will equip young people with the quantitative and statistical skills that they will need for the jobs of today and the future. This includes having the right skills to feel confident with finances in later life, including finding the best mortgage deal or savings rate.
The Government is not planning to make an assessment of access to financial education in each region. The Money and Pensions Service (MaPS) has a statutory objective to develop and co-ordinate a national strategy to improve people’s financial capabilities. The strategy is supported by Delivery Plans for each nation of the UK and further details can be found here: https://www.maps.org.uk/uk-strategy-for-financial-wellbeing/.
As part of this, MaPS has published guidance to support head teachers to enhance their financial education provision, which is available here: https://maps.org.uk/2021/11/11/financial-education-guidance-for-primary-and-secondary-schools-in-england/.
The Department and MaPS are planning a series of joint financial education webinars during this academic year, aimed at promoting the importance of financial education, improving pupils’ knowledge and teachers’ confidence.