Asked by: Chris Ruane (Labour - Vale of Clwyd)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether he has made an assessment of the key skills that the UK work force will need over the next (a) 10 and (b) 20 years; and if he will make a statement.
Answered by Anne Milton
The UK Commission for Employment and Skills (UKCES) commissioned a series of long-term projections of labour market and skills demand called ‘Working Futures’. The most recent study (https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/uk-labour-market-projections-2014-to-2024), published in 2016, covers the UK’s anticipated skills demand up to 2024. Following the closure of UKCES, the Department for Education is currently commissioning the next set of Working Futures projections.
The department will also be publishing the results from the latest Employer Skills Survey this summer. The survey gathers information on the types of skills that employers need now and over the next 12 months.
In addition, the Skills Advisory Panels programme is being rolled out across England. The programme is working with Mayoral Combined Authorities and Local Enterprise Partnerships to give them the capability and tools to produce high-quality skills analysis so that current and future skills provision better meets employer demand at the local level.
Asked by: Chris Ruane (Labour - Vale of Clwyd)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many (a) nursery, (b) primary and (c) secondary teachers there have been per thousand pupils in each of the last 10 years.
Answered by Nick Gibb
Information on the number of teachers per thousand pupils is not routinely published.
Information showing the pupil teacher ratio and pupil adult ratio for state funded nursery, primary and secondary schools is available in Table 17a of the publication, School Workforce in England 2016. This is available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/school-workforce-in-england-november-2016.
Asked by: Chris Ruane (Labour - Vale of Clwyd)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 13 June 2018 to Question 149986 on supply teachers, how many part-time teachers there have been in each of the last 10 years.
Answered by Nick Gibb
The figures provided are publicly available from table 2a in the Statistical First Release ‘School Workforce in England, November 2017’ available at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-school-workforce.
The table provides the head count number of part-time teachers in service in state funded schools in England, for November 2010 to 2016. Information for November 2017 will be available on 28 June 2018.
| Part-time teachers (thousands) |
November 2010 | 104.4 |
November 2011 | 105.9 |
November 2012 | 106.2 |
November 2013 | 108.4 |
November 2014 | 110.0 |
November 2015 | 114.3 |
November 2016 | 116.8 |
Sources: November 2010 to 2016 (School Workforce Census).
There is no comparable information available for years prior to 2010. However data for the full-time equivalent number of part-time teachers, rather than headcount is available for years prior to 2010:
Asked by: Chris Ruane (Labour - Vale of Clwyd)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much funding his Department provided for schools-based educational psychologists in each of the last three years for which data is available.
Answered by Nadhim Zahawi
The information requested is not held centrally.
Asked by: Chris Ruane (Labour - Vale of Clwyd)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate he has made of the number of children who received help from schools-based educational psychologists in each of the last three years for which data is available.
Answered by Nadhim Zahawi
The information requested is not held centrally.
Asked by: Chris Ruane (Labour - Vale of Clwyd)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many educational psychologists were employed in the (a) public sector and (b) private sector in each year for which data is available.
Answered by Nadhim Zahawi
In November 2016, there were 1,368 educational psychologists (EP) that were reported as being directly employed by local authorities in England. This excludes local authorities where EP provision has been outsourced or shared with other local authorities. In addition, individual academies and free schools do obtain private provision.
Information regarding the number of educational psychologists employed in the private sector is not held centrally.
Asked by: Chris Ruane (Labour - Vale of Clwyd)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children were (a) entitled to, and (b) applied for free school meals in each local authority area in each of the last seven years.
Answered by Nadhim Zahawi
The number of pupils eligible for and claiming free school meals is published in the annual ‘Schools, pupils and their characteristics’ statistical release is available at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/schools-pupils-and-their-characteristics-january-2017.
For 2017, the number and percentage of pupils eligible for and claiming free school meals by local authority can be found in Tables 8a to 8e, in the ‘Local authority and regional tables: SFR28/2017’ section of the annual ‘Schools, pupils and their characteristics: January 2017’ statistical release.
Information for earlier years (from 2010 onwards) is available at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-school-and-pupil-numbers.
Asked by: Chris Ruane (Labour - Vale of Clwyd)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the average amount was of student debt that was (a) paid by and (b) outstanding for (i) 25 to 29-year-olds, (ii) 30 to 34-year-olds and (iii) 35 to 39-year-olds in each of the last eight years.
Answered by Sam Gyimah
The information is not held centrally and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Chris Ruane (Labour - Vale of Clwyd)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the effect of school police liaison officers on (a) pupil's behaviour, (b) truancy rates and (c) youth crime rates in areas where such officers are deployed.
Answered by Nick Gibb
The Department has not conducted an assessment and does not hold statistics about the effect of school police liaison officers on pupils’ behaviour, truancy rates and youth crime rates in areas where such officers are deployed.
It is a matter for local police forces to decide their strategy for working with schools. However, we do recognise that police working with schools through initiatives such as the Safer School Partnerships are a proven method for achieving effective joint working between schools and police.
Asked by: Chris Ruane (Labour - Vale of Clwyd)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much money was spent by (a) primary and (b) secondary schools in employing supply teachers in each of the last eight years.
Answered by Nick Gibb
The Department publishes the amount spent by schools on supply teaching staff annually for:
Local authority maintained schools on the Department’s School and College Performance website at: https://www.gov.uk/school-performance-tables available for 2010-11 to 2016-17; and
Academies in the Department’s Statistical First Release ‘Income and expenditure in academies in England’ at: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-local-authority-school-finance-data#academy-spending available since 2011/12, when they were first collected in this format, up to 2015/16. Data for 2016/17 will published in the summer of 2018.
The Department is working with Crown Commercial Service to develop a commercial framework for agency supply teachers to support schools with ensuring value for money when using agency staff. The framework is expected to be available for schools to use from September 2018.