Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment the Department has made of the potential impact of the recent changes to teacher training funding eligibility on the provision and uptake of language teaching in schools.

Answered by Georgia Gould - Minister of State (Education)

The department has now achieved over 70% of our target to recruit 6,500 additional expert teachers by the end of this Parliament. There are 4,654 additional expert teachers in secondary and special schools and colleges.

Recruitment of physics trainee teachers has almost doubled since 2023/24, and modern foreign languages recruitment (MFL) has increased by nearly a third over the same period. Our focus is on maintaining the growth in domestic recruitment and improved retention of existing teachers that we have already seen.

As a result, the department has paused the bursary and scholarship offer for new international entrants in physics and languages. International entrants that held an offer to start an initial teacher training course as of 7 May are unaffected by this change and will therefore receive bursaries and scholarships from this autumn. We will review our offer ahead of the next recruitment cycle.

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment the Department has made of the potential impact of the recent changes to teacher training funding eligibility on recruitment to Modern Foreign Languages and Physics teacher training courses.

Answered by Georgia Gould - Minister of State (Education)

The department has now achieved over 70% of our target to recruit 6,500 additional expert teachers by the end of this Parliament. There are 4,654 additional expert teachers in secondary and special schools and colleges.

Recruitment of physics trainee teachers has almost doubled since 2023/24, and modern foreign languages recruitment (MFL) has increased by nearly a third over the same period. Our focus is on maintaining the growth in domestic recruitment and improved retention of existing teachers that we have already seen.

As a result, the department has paused the bursary and scholarship offer for new international entrants in physics and languages. International entrants that held an offer to start an initial teacher training course as of 7 May are unaffected by this change and will therefore receive bursaries and scholarships from this autumn. We will review our offer ahead of the next recruitment cycle.

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to review guidance to Integrated Care Boards on access to NHS-funded frozen embryo transfers for patients with remaining embryos from previous NHS-funded IVF cycles seeking to have a further child.

Answered by Preet Kaur Gill - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)

Funding decisions for health services in England are made by integrated care boards (ICBs) and are based on the clinical needs of their local population.

On 31 March, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) published its updated fertility guideline, which states that a full cycle of in vitro fertilisation (IVF) should include one episode of ovarian stimulation and the transfer of any resulting fresh and frozen embryos.

We expect ICBs to consider and reflect the updated NICE fertility guidelines in their commissioning decisions, and we are working with NHS England to support greater consistency in provision.

There are no plans to review guidance to ICBs on access to National Health Service funded embryo transfers for patients with remaining embryos from previous NHS-funded IVF cycles seeking to have a further child.

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Found: Education Committee members present: Helen Hayes (Chair); Jess Asato; Darren Paffey; Rebecca Paul; Manuela

Found: Education Committee members present: Helen Hayes (Chair); Jess Asato; Darren Paffey; Rebecca Paul; Manuela

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The Education Committee is examining the Government’s proposals for reform of the school system in England, as set out in the Every Child Achieving and Thriving White Paper.