Asked by: Deidre Brock (Scottish National Party - Edinburgh North and Leith)
Question to the Department for Education:
What recent discussions he has had with the Prime Minister on the effect on schools and universities of the UK leaving the EU.
Answered by Chris Skidmore
There are regular Cabinet discussions on the impact of leaving the EU. We are considering all aspects of how exiting the EU might affect education. This includes consideration of institutions’ access to European funding sources, participation in EU funded programmes, future arrangements for migration and arrangements for access to student finance support.
Asked by: Deidre Brock (Scottish National Party - Edinburgh North and Leith)
Question to the Department for Education:
What recent discussions he has had with the Prime Minister on the effect on schools and universities of the UK leaving the EU.
Answered by Chris Skidmore
There are regular Cabinet discussions on the impact of leaving the EU. We are considering all aspects of how exiting the EU might affect education. This includes consideration of institutions’ access to European funding sources, participation in EU funded programmes, future arrangements for migration and arrangements for access to student finance support.
Asked by: Deidre Brock (Scottish National Party - Edinburgh North and Leith)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much money his Department has spent on hospitality in each of the last five years.
Answered by Anne Milton
I refer the hon. Member for Edinburgh North and Leith to the answer I gave on 2 February 2018 to Question 124714 https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2018-01-24/124714/.
Asked by: Deidre Brock (Scottish National Party - Edinburgh North and Leith)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether (a) his Department and (b) any of his Department's agencies entered into contracts with Strategic Communication Laboratories in each year since 2010.
Answered by Anne Milton
The department have not entered into any commercial contracts with Cambridge Analytica or its parent organisation Strategic Communication Laboratories Group.
Since January 2011, details of central government contracts above the value of £10,000 are published on Contracts Finder. Contracts published prior to 26 February 2015 can be viewed at: https://data.gov.uk/data/contracts-finder-archive. Those published after 26 February 2015 can be viewed at: https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Search.
Asked by: Deidre Brock (Scottish National Party - Edinburgh North and Leith)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether (a) his Department and (b) any of its agencies has entered into contracts with Cambridge Analytica since 2012.
Answered by Anne Milton
The department have not entered into any commercial contracts with Cambridge Analytica or its parent organisation Strategic Communication Laboratories Group.
Since January 2011, details of central government contracts above the value of £10,000 are published on Contracts Finder. Contracts published prior to 26 February 2015 can be viewed at: https://data.gov.uk/data/contracts-finder-archive. Those published after 26 February 2015 can be viewed at: https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Search.
Asked by: Deidre Brock (Scottish National Party - Edinburgh North and Leith)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate his Department has made of the cost to the public purse of theft and fraud to (a) his Department, (b) its agencies and (c) its non-departmental public bodies in each of the last ten years.
Answered by Robert Goodwill
In 2011 the government established the Fraud, Error and Debt Taskforce to develop and coordinate the delivery of initiatives across government as previously no systematic attempt had been made. Since 2012/13 the department has therefore published a total for overall detected fraud in the department consolidated accounts. Available on GOV.UK at https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/dfe-annual-reports.
Since 2017 Cabinet Office have also published annual detected fraud figures for all central departments and related bodies. Also available on GOV.UK at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/cross-government-fraud-landscape-annual-report-2017.
Fraud and error figures for Executive Agencies (EA’s) and Non-Department Public Bodies in years prior to 2013-14 were not collected centrally and therefore unavailable. From 2013-14 onwards, the department reported fraud figures to the Cabinet Office in line with their definition of fraud costs and covered all EA’s and Arm’s Length Bodies. Following machinery of government changes from June 2016 onwards, the department also supplies figures for higher education and further education including the Student Loan Company.
| 12-13 | 13-14 | 14-15 | 15-16 | 16-17 |
Department (inc. EFA) | £0.0M | £0.04 | To be confirmed (with Cabinet Office) | £1.45M | £2.28 |
The figures shown are taken from published material in the accounts or the Cross Government Fraud Landscape Annual report.
Asked by: Deidre Brock (Scottish National Party - Edinburgh North and Leith)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many people in her Department with responsibility for social media are employed on an (a) full and (b) part-time basis.
Answered by Robert Goodwill
There are five full time staff members in the social media team.