Asked by: David Linden (Scottish National Party - Glasgow East)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will publish (a) the outcome of all meetings and (b) all call logs between Ministers of his Department and Mr Crispin Odey.
Answered by Michelle Donelan
Details of Ministers’ meetings are published quarterly in arrears on GOV.UK.
Asked by: David Linden (Scottish National Party - Glasgow East)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many apprentices are employed in his Department.
Answered by Anne Milton
There are currently 176 members of staff on an apprenticeship programme within the department.
Recently published data detailing the Civil Service performance against the first year of the public sector apprenticeship target can be found here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/civil-service-apprenticeship-data-2017-to-2018.
Asked by: David Linden (Scottish National Party - Glasgow East)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many staff in his Department are paid less than £8.75 per hour.
Answered by Anne Milton
The Department for Education and its executive agencies do not have any employees who earn less than £8.75 per hour. There are 101 employees based outside of London who earn less than £10.20 per hour.
Asked by: David Linden (Scottish National Party - Glasgow East)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many staff in his Department are paid less than £10.20 per hour.
Answered by Anne Milton
The Department for Education and its executive agencies do not have any employees who earn less than £8.75 per hour. There are 101 employees based outside of London who earn less than £10.20 per hour.
Asked by: David Linden (Scottish National Party - Glasgow East)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 25 July 2017 to Question 5159, if she will conduct an assessment on the effect of period poverty on young women and girls in schools.
Answered by Robert Goodwill
The Department for Education collects information on absences through the termly school census. The department collects data on the number of possible sessions, number of authorised absences, number of unauthorised absences and the reason for absence for each pupil. The reasons for absence do not include a category which would enable sessions missed due to a lack of access to menstrual products to be identified. Full details of the absence data we collect in the school census can be found in the census guidance here: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/school-census.
The department has sought to establish whether there has been any rigorous national assessment of the prevalence of period poverty or its impact on attendance, however none appears available. We reached out to school stakeholders in July 2017 through the Association of School and College Leaders forum asking for contributions on the issue and have received a very limited response. The department is producing additional analysis of the absence data in order to look for evidence of period poverty and will publish findings in due course.