Asked by: Seema Malhotra (Labour (Co-op) - Feltham and Heston)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of apprentices who did not complete an apprenticeship that they had started completed the apprenticeship exit survey in the 2022-2023 academic year.
Answered by Robert Halfon
The department is committed to supporting as many apprentices as possible to stay on their programme, to achieve and have to a high-quality experience.
The department wants to ensure that apprentice pay supports talented individuals to start and stay in apprenticeships. From April 2024, the apprentice minimum wage will increase by 21.2% to £6.40. Many employers pay their apprentices more than the minimum, with the latest data showing that the median gross hourly pay for apprentices in 2021 was £9.98 an hour.
The department continues to provide additional financial support to employers and providers to encourage more apprenticeship opportunities and to help meet additional costs associated with apprenticeships. The department provides £1,000 payments to employers and providers when they take on apprentices aged 16 to 18, and up to 24 for apprentices with an Education, Health and Care plan, which can be used to support costs such as work equipment, uniforms, or travel. The department has also increased the care leavers’ bursary from £1,000 to £3,000.
3,658 apprentices have responded to the exit questionnaire since it was launched in October 2022. Of those, 679 (19%) cited financial reasons as contributing to their withdrawal from their apprenticeship.
Asked by: Seema Malhotra (Labour (Co-op) - Feltham and Heston)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of respondents to the apprentice exit survey reported that financial issues contributed to them not finishing an apprenticeship in the 2022-23 academic year.
Answered by Robert Halfon
The department is committed to supporting as many apprentices as possible to stay on their programme, to achieve and have to a high-quality experience.
The department wants to ensure that apprentice pay supports talented individuals to start and stay in apprenticeships. From April 2024, the apprentice minimum wage will increase by 21.2% to £6.40. Many employers pay their apprentices more than the minimum, with the latest data showing that the median gross hourly pay for apprentices in 2021 was £9.98 an hour.
The department continues to provide additional financial support to employers and providers to encourage more apprenticeship opportunities and to help meet additional costs associated with apprenticeships. The department provides £1,000 payments to employers and providers when they take on apprentices aged 16 to 18, and up to 24 for apprentices with an Education, Health and Care plan, which can be used to support costs such as work equipment, uniforms, or travel. The department has also increased the care leavers’ bursary from £1,000 to £3,000.
3,658 apprentices have responded to the exit questionnaire since it was launched in October 2022. Of those, 679 (19%) cited financial reasons as contributing to their withdrawal from their apprenticeship.
Asked by: Seema Malhotra (Labour (Co-op) - Feltham and Heston)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the number of children prescribed Elvanse who are (a) currently without medication and (b) excluded from school due to behavioural issues.
Answered by Damian Hinds - Minister of State (Education)
The information requested is not held by the department.
Creating school cultures with high expectations of behaviour is a priority for the government. The department supports head teachers in using exclusion where warranted as a part of creating calm, safe and supportive environments which bring out the best in every pupil.
The updated ‘Statutory Suspension and Permanent Exclusion’ guidance is clear that head teachers should consider any underlying causes of misbehaviour before issuing an exclusion, this may include where a pupil has attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. More information on the guidance can be found here: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1181584/Suspension_and_permanent_exclusion_guidance_september_23.pdf.
The department’s guidance, 'Understanding your data: a guide for school governors and academy trustees’ also makes clear governing boards should carefully consider the level and characteristics of pupils who are leaving the school and deploy maximum challenge to the school on any permanent exclusions to ensure it is only used as a last resort. More information on the guidance can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/understanding-your-data-a-guide-for-school-governors-and-academy-trustees/understanding-your-data-a-guide-for-school-governors-and-academy-trustees.
Asked by: Seema Malhotra (Labour (Co-op) - Feltham and Heston)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of children in Feltham and Heston constituency have received two A-Levels or equivalent in each year since 2009.
Answered by Damian Hinds - Minister of State (Education)
Data are not published at Parliamentary constituency level.
Asked by: Seema Malhotra (Labour (Co-op) - Feltham and Heston)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many people started an apprenticeship course that they did not complete in each academic year since 2010-2011.
Answered by Robert Halfon
The department does not hold the information requested.
Asked by: Seema Malhotra (Labour (Co-op) - Feltham and Heston)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department holds data on Progress 8 scores by constituency.
Answered by Damian Hinds - Minister of State (Education)
The department did not produce the percentage of pupils achieving five or more grades A* to C, including English and Mathematics GCSEs, at parliamentary constituency level prior to the 2014/15 academic year or from 2016/17 onwards. It is available for the 2014/15 and 2015/6 academic years.
The department publishes the percentage of pupils achieving the English Baccalaureate at grades A* to C, or 9 to 4, at parliamentary constituency level. The English Baccalaureate consists of GCSEs in five subjects: English, mathematics, science, a modern foreign language, and geography or history. The information available is attached for Feltham and Heston constituency.
The department publishes Progress 8 scores at school level. School level attainment data for each academic year can be accessed here: https://www.compare-school-performance.service.gov.uk/download-data.
School level attainment data was not published for the 2019/20 and 2020/21 academic years 2019/20 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. More information can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/school-and-college-accountability-approach-2020-to-2022/.
Progress 8 data for schools in Feltham and Heston is attached. The department publishes data on Progress 8 scores by parliamentary constituency in the following publication: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/key-stage-4-performance-revised/2022-23.
The most recent Progress 8 scores by parliamentary constituency for the 2022/23 academic year data can be found in the following table: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink/4047060f-e4df-41db-aad7-08dc15deba2a.
Asked by: Seema Malhotra (Labour (Co-op) - Feltham and Heston)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of children have achieved five Grade C or higher GCSEs in Feltham and Heston constituency in each year since 2009.
Answered by Damian Hinds - Minister of State (Education)
The department did not produce the percentage of pupils achieving five or more grades A* to C, including English and Mathematics GCSEs, at parliamentary constituency level prior to the 2014/15 academic year or from 2016/17 onwards. It is available for the 2014/15 and 2015/6 academic years.
The department publishes the percentage of pupils achieving the English Baccalaureate at grades A* to C, or 9 to 4, at parliamentary constituency level. The English Baccalaureate consists of GCSEs in five subjects: English, mathematics, science, a modern foreign language, and geography or history. The information available is attached for Feltham and Heston constituency.
The department publishes Progress 8 scores at school level. School level attainment data for each academic year can be accessed here: https://www.compare-school-performance.service.gov.uk/download-data.
School level attainment data was not published for the 2019/20 and 2020/21 academic years 2019/20 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. More information can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/school-and-college-accountability-approach-2020-to-2022/.
Progress 8 data for schools in Feltham and Heston is attached. The department publishes data on Progress 8 scores by parliamentary constituency in the following publication: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/key-stage-4-performance-revised/2022-23.
The most recent Progress 8 scores by parliamentary constituency for the 2022/23 academic year data can be found in the following table: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink/4047060f-e4df-41db-aad7-08dc15deba2a.
Asked by: Seema Malhotra (Labour (Co-op) - Feltham and Heston)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many schools in Feltham and Heston constituency have not reached a Progress 8 score of -0.5 in each year since 2016.
Answered by Damian Hinds - Minister of State (Education)
The department did not produce the percentage of pupils achieving five or more grades A* to C, including English and Mathematics GCSEs, at parliamentary constituency level prior to the 2014/15 academic year or from 2016/17 onwards. It is available for the 2014/15 and 2015/6 academic years.
The department publishes the percentage of pupils achieving the English Baccalaureate at grades A* to C, or 9 to 4, at parliamentary constituency level. The English Baccalaureate consists of GCSEs in five subjects: English, mathematics, science, a modern foreign language, and geography or history. The information available is attached for Feltham and Heston constituency.
The department publishes Progress 8 scores at school level. School level attainment data for each academic year can be accessed here: https://www.compare-school-performance.service.gov.uk/download-data.
School level attainment data was not published for the 2019/20 and 2020/21 academic years 2019/20 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. More information can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/school-and-college-accountability-approach-2020-to-2022/.
Progress 8 data for schools in Feltham and Heston is attached. The department publishes data on Progress 8 scores by parliamentary constituency in the following publication: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/key-stage-4-performance-revised/2022-23.
The most recent Progress 8 scores by parliamentary constituency for the 2022/23 academic year data can be found in the following table: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink/4047060f-e4df-41db-aad7-08dc15deba2a.
Asked by: Seema Malhotra (Labour (Co-op) - Feltham and Heston)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what (a) schemes and (b) grants their Department administers that are open for (i) individuals, (ii) organisations and (iii) other groups in Feltham and Heston constituency to apply for as of 10 January 2024.
Answered by Damian Hinds - Minister of State (Education)
In the 2023/24 financial year, the department will provide over £87 billion of capital and revenue funding in England. The largest portion of funding is for core education provision for schools for 5- to 16-year-olds. In the same financial year schools in Feltham and Heston will attract over £111.6 million, through the schools National Funding Formula.
The department does not administer grants at a constituency level. Some funding is distributed via grants that are made available at local authority level. More information on Hounslow’s grants for schools, children and families is available here: https://www.hounslow.gov.uk/info/20008/schools_children_and_families.
More information on future general grant schemes can be found here: https://www.find-government-grants.service.gov.uk/.
Asked by: Seema Malhotra (Labour (Co-op) - Feltham and Heston)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, which areas have not developed a Local Skills Improvement Plan as of 11 January 2024.
Answered by Robert Halfon
The department is pleased that all 38 Local Skills Improvement Plans (LSIPs), covering every area of the country, were published in August 2023. The coming decade will see substantial economic change and, as the economy changes, so will the skills needs of employers. Crucially, this will play out in different ways across the country. That is why the department introduced LSIPs nationwide, to support local innovation and growth so that every part of the country is able to succeed in its own unique way.
Each LSIP is published on the relevant ERB’s website, a full list of which is available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/designated-employer-representative-bodies/notice-of-designated-employer-representative-bodies.