Asked by: Chuka Umunna (Liberal Democrat - Streatham)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent estimate his Department has made of the proportion of primary school funding that has been donated by parents or guardians of pupils in (a) South London and (b) the London Borough of Lambeth.
Answered by Nick Gibb
The information requested is not held centrally, as the Department does not collect data about donations from parents. However, schools’ financial returns show that the proportion of income from all donations and voluntary funds in London Primary schools was 0.7% in 2017-18, which is the same as the national average. In Lambeth, this figure was 0.3% in 2017-18.
Asked by: Chuka Umunna (Liberal Democrat - Streatham)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate his Department has made of the number of adults over 25 years of age who have undertaken a non-university course in each of the last five years.
Answered by Anne Milton
The number of learners aged 25 and over participating on government-funded further education courses in each academic year are shown in the attached table. These figures include learners on government-funded further education courses that are delivered in higher education institutions.
Asked by: Chuka Umunna (Liberal Democrat - Streatham)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many school-age children whose parents or guardians have requested a school place have been out of school for more than a term in the (a) UK and (b) London Borough of Lambeth in the (i) 2017-18 and (ii) 2018-19 academic years.
Answered by Nick Gibb
The information requested is not held centrally. The Department does not hold data on the number of in-year admission applications made and the length of time a child has been out of school prior to their parents or guardians submitting an application.
Parents can apply for a place at any school, at any time. When parents apply for a school place outside of the normal admissions round, this is classed as an in-year admission. This process is managed at a local level by either the local authority, where it coordinates the in-year admissions for schools in their area, or directly by the admission authority of the school.
Asked by: Chuka Umunna (Liberal Democrat - Streatham)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what comparative assessment his Department’s has made of adult literacy levels in each of the last five years.
Answered by Anne Milton
The department has not conducted an assessment of adult literacy levels within the past 5 years.
We participate in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s (OECD) Survey of Adult Skills to assess our performance in literacy, which was last conducted in England and 24 other countries in 2011-12. Findings from the survey can be found at: http://www.oecd.org/skills/.
The next Survey of Adult Skills will take place in 2021/22, with results available in 2023.
Asked by: Chuka Umunna (Liberal Democrat - Streatham)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate his Department has made of the number of adult education providers in each of the last five years.
Answered by Anne Milton
The tables below show the number of providers that we allocated funds to in each of the funding years.
Note that in 2014/15 and 2015/16, the Adult Skills budget was part of the Apprenticeship budget and allocated as such. The Adult Education Budget was created in 2016/17, separate from apprenticeships. For the years 2014/15 and 2015/16 therefore, the number of providers includes those with Adult Skills and Adult Apprenticeship allocations.
Adult Skills Budget and Adult Apprenticeship Allocations | |
Funding Year | Providers |
2014/15 | 923 |
2015/16 | 947 |
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Adult Education Budget Allocations | |
Funding Year | Providers |
2016/17 | 737 |
2017/18 | 831 |
2018/19 | 646 |
Asked by: Chuka Umunna (Liberal Democrat - Streatham)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children were absent from school in the 2018-19 academic year due to mental health problems.
Answered by Nick Gibb
The information requested is not held centrally.
The Department published data on absence due to illness, but not on type of illness, in table 2 of the annual “Pupil absence in schools in England” statistical release: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/pupil-absence-in-schools-in-england-2017-to-2018.
Asked by: Chuka Umunna (Liberal Democrat - Streatham)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent estimate he has made of the proportion of comprehensive primary school funding which comes from donations by parents or guardians of pupils.
Answered by Nick Gibb
The information requested, regarding the proportion of funding which comes from donations by parents or guardians of pupils, is not held centrally. Schools’ financial returns show that overall income from donations and voluntary funds has remained steady at about 0.7% of schools’ overall budgets since 2011-12.
Asked by: Chuka Umunna (Liberal Democrat - Streatham)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many citizens of other EU countries work in her Department, its agencies and non-departmental public bodies.
Answered by Caroline Dinenage
The Department does not keep records of whether its employees are citizens of other EU countries. Departmental staff includes Executive Agencies, but excludes Non-Departmental Public Bodies and all non-payroll staff as this information is not held centrally.
Asked by: Chuka Umunna (Liberal Democrat - Streatham)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when her Department plans to publish the findings of the first phase of its consultation on a national schools funding formula; and when the second phase of that consultation is planned to commence.
Answered by Edward Timpson
We received a high number of responses to the first stage of our consultation on the principles and building blocks of the schools national funding formula. Those will inform our detailed proposals for the design of the formula, which we will put forward later this year. We must allow appropriate time to consider what would be significant reforms, and we remain committed to introducing the formula from 2017-18 so that schools can start to benefit from fairer funding as soon as possible.