Asked by: Lord Austin of Dudley (Non-affiliated - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education how many civil servants in her Department are working solely on the devolution of the adult education budget (a) in total and (b) in each mayoral or combined authority.
Answered by Anne Milton
There are currently 7 civil servants in the department working solely on devolution of the Adult Education Budget with additional input and assistance from an additional number of people from across the department and the Education and Skills Funding Agency. It is the responsibility of each Mayoral Combined Authority and the Greater London Authority to determine their own level of resourcing.
Asked by: Lord Austin of Dudley (Non-affiliated - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much funding from the public purse was allocated to English for Speakers of Other Languages in each region in each year since 2010.
Answered by Anne Milton
The attached table shows the notional funding allocated to English for Speakers of Other Languages by region for each year since the 2010/2011 academic year.
Asked by: Lord Austin of Dudley (Non-affiliated - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many teachers in London were no longer teaching within (a) three, (b) five and (c) 10 years of qualifying.
Answered by Nick Gibb
The information requested is not available in the format requested.
The retention rates for qualified teachers in England who began their employment in each of the last ten years was published in Table 8 of the ‘School Workforce in England: November 2016’ in June 2017: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/school-workforce-in-england-november-2016.
Regional versions of these statistics are not available.
The Department has published information at regional level on the percentage of teachers who leave each year. These statistics were published in tables 2.1a and 2.1b in the ‘Local analysis of teacher workforce: 2010 to 2015’:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/local-analysis-of-teacher-workforce-2010-to-2015.
Asked by: Lord Austin of Dudley (Non-affiliated - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much funding the European Social Fund has contributed to adult education projects in each region in the last year.
Answered by Anne Milton
The European Social Fund is allocated to the Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPs).
The Education and Skills Funding Agency offers LEPs the service of procuring and managing European Social Fund contracts which deliver education and training on behalf of the LEPs.
The table below aggregates the LEP area expenditure into regions. A more detailed breakdown by LEP area is in the attached spreadsheet.
Region | ESF Paid to Providers in Academic Year | Total ESF Contracted with Providers Apr-16 to July-18 |
East Midlands | £7.27 | £50.39 |
East of England | £3.40 | £18.85 |
London | £28.86 | £82.19 |
North East | £10.83 | £46.86 |
North West | £13.75 | £84.37 |
South East | £4.78 | £32.07 |
South West | £5.72 | £39.45 |
West Midlands | £5.86 | £45.70 |
Yorkshire and The Humber | £5.53 | £42.10 |
Grand Total | £86.01 | £441.97 |
Figures rounded to the nearest £10,000.
The Big Lottery Fund and the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) are also organisations with which LEPs can agree to deliver other projects eligible for European Social Fund. Additionally, Her Majesty’s Prison & Probation Service delivers European Social Fund projects. Other organisations may make direct bids to deliver European Social Fund to the European Social Fund Managing Authority (which is part of the DWP).
Asked by: Lord Austin of Dudley (Non-affiliated - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will list the approved adult education budget providers which deliver in London but are not located in London; and what estimate she has made of the spend of delivery by those providers (a) in total, (b) to residents in London and (c) to residents outside of London in 2015-16.
Answered by Anne Milton
The information requested is contained within the attached file. This dataset includes a list of providers who have delivered to residents of London, where the providers head office address is not in London.
There were 590 approved adult education budget providers located outside of London, of which 303 delivered to residents of London in 2015/16. The source for this data is the Individualised Learner Record 2015/16 return, the final funding claims 2015/16 return and the Earnings Adjustment Statement 2015/16.
Asked by: Lord Austin of Dudley (Non-affiliated - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will publish a list of all the approved adult education budget providers which deliver in London but are not located in London; and what estimate she has made of the number of learners that live in London for which those providers delivered teaching in 2015-16.
Answered by Anne Milton
The information requested about approved adult education providers is contained within the attached file. This dataset includes a list of providers who have delivered to residents of London, where the providers head office address is not in London.
We do not hold the specific data requested on the number of learners for the 2015/16 academic year. The department has previously published figures on learning aims delivered to individuals living in each local authority by provider, qualification level and type of provision, which are accessible via the links below.
The latest published data for the 2013/14 academic year can be viewed via: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/524139/Delivery_LA_Provider_LA_Level_1314_FS_Final_v2.xls.
The latest published data for the 2012/13 academic year can be viewed via: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/349330/Jan14_Learners_Home_Local_Authority_District_Provider_Level_1213.zip.
The figures highlight the proportion of provision delivered within the authority of where the learner lives and the proportion delivered outside the authority.
Asked by: Lord Austin of Dudley (Non-affiliated - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to prevent private providers operating as bogus colleges.
Answered by Anne Milton
Further education (FE) providers receiving public funds are monitored by the Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA) and placed on a register for funded organisations. Ofsted only provide inspections for established FE institutions. Individuals wishing to cross-reference a course or provider that is nationally recognised can visit the National Careers Service website: https://nationalcareersservice.direct.gov.uk/course-directory/home.
The ESFA will investigate complaints of bogus educational institutions. Those concerned about a particular organisation can also register their complaint with the Citizens Advice and Trading Standards.