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Written Question
Free School Meals
Wednesday 3rd July 2019

Asked by: Gloria De Piero (Labour - Ashfield)

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate he has made of the number and proportion of pupils attending secondary schools in (a) Ashfield constituency, (b) Nottinghamshire and (c) England who are eligible for free school meals but not claiming them.

Answered by Nadhim Zahawi

The number of students who are eligible for and are claiming free school meals (FSM) is published at national and school level in the underlying data of the ‘Schools, pupils and their characteristics’ publication. The 2019 publication is available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/schools-pupils-and-their-characteristics-january-2019.

FSM are available to parents who are in receipt of certain qualifying benefits, including those that are means tested by the Department for Work and Pensions. To be eligible to receive FSM, a pupil or their parent must make a claim to the school for FSM. Until the claim is made, the pupil is not eligible for FSM. These figures do not include pupils who may be eligible for FSM but no claim has been made.

The underlying data file Schools_pupils_and_their_characteristics_2019_pupil_characteristics_UD.csv includes a column for phase of school, parliamentary constituency and local authority.


Written Question
Apprentices
Wednesday 3rd July 2019

Asked by: Gloria De Piero (Labour - Ashfield)

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the effect on people's long-term earnings potential of completing an intermediate level apprenticeship compared with (a) an advanced and (b) a higher level apprenticeship.

Answered by Anne Milton

The apprenticeships reform programme benefits realisation strategy, published in March 2017, sets out a broad range of success measures for the programme. A core benefit of the apprenticeships reform programme is to raise average earnings for apprentices, measured over a period of 5 years.

For learners that achieved in academic year 2010/11, the median annualised earnings 5 years after training were greater at higher levels:

  • £26,700 for higher (level 4) apprenticeships 5 years after training.
  • £21,000 for advanced (level 3) apprenticeships.
  • £17,900 for intermediate (level 2) apprenticeships.

This information was released in October 2018 and can be found in the ‘Further Education: Outcome based success measures: academic years 2010/11 to 2015/16’, available here: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/748305/FE_learners__outcome_based_success_measures.pdf.

Data published in the ‘Estimation of the labour market returns to qualifications gained in English Further Education’ shows that on average, achievers of intermediate apprenticeships earn 11% more and achievers of advanced apprenticeships earn 16% more, 3-5 years after completing their apprenticeship, than those who started an apprenticeship at that level but did not complete. This information was published in December 2014 and can be found here: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/383646/Estimation_of_the_labour_market_returns_to_qualifications_gained_in_English_Further_Education_-_Final_-_November_2014.pdf.

Over the past few years we have introduced major reforms to apprenticeships and, as the system is still adapting, it is too early to know the full productivity and earnings benefits that these changes will bring.


Written Question
Apprentices: Taxation
Tuesday 11th June 2019

Asked by: Gloria De Piero (Labour - Ashfield)

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many businesses in (a) Ashfield constituency and (b) Nottinghamshire hired apprentices in each of the last five years.

Answered by Anne Milton

The most recent statistics on the total number of businesses with apprenticeship starts for the 2016/17 academic year are published on GOV.UK. This can be found at:

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/750709/apprenticeship_starts_tables.xlsx.

Due to the methodology behind these experimental statistics, we do not provide regional data at a lower level of granularity than Government Office Region. We are developing the methodology which will potentially allow for more detailed breakdowns in the future.

The latest published information on apprenticeship starts can be found in the further education data library. This can be found at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/fe-data-library-apprenticeships.

The latest published figures on the number of apprenticeship starts at a geographical level can be found at:

2017/18 and the first six months of the 2018/19 academic year (provisional):

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/789168/Apprenticeship-starts-ach-geography-tool_201718_Q2-201819_Mar2019.xlsx.

2014/15 to 2017/18 academic years:

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/772388/Apprenticeship-starts-ach-geography-tool_201415-Q1201819_Jan2019_v1.xlsx.


Written Question
Apprentices: Free School Meals
Thursday 6th June 2019

Asked by: Gloria De Piero (Labour - Ashfield)

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of apprenticeship starters were eligible for free school meals in (a) Ashfield constituency, (b) Nottinghamshire and (c) England in each quarter of each academic year since 2014.

Answered by Anne Milton

Information on the proportion of apprenticeship starters who were eligible for free school meals is not held in the format requested.

We publish data on apprenticeship starts with various breakdowns by level, local authority and parliamentary constituency in the apprenticeships geography and sector subject area tool of the apprenticeships data library. This can be found at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/fe-data-library-apprenticeships.


Written Question
Higher Education: Free School Meals
Thursday 6th June 2019

Asked by: Gloria De Piero (Labour - Ashfield)

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of people entering higher education by age 19 in (a) 2018-19 and (b) each of the last five academic years were eligible for free school meals in (i) Ashfield constituency, (ii) Nottinghamshire and (iii) England.

Answered by Chris Skidmore

The Department publishes information at a national level on the proportion of students who entered higher education by age 19 who were eligible for free school meals at age of 15 in state-funded and special schools.

The latest figures for England can be found in Table 1 here:

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/757901/WP2018-MainTables.xlsx.

The information is not held centrally, regarding figures at local authority or parliamentary constituency level.


Written Question
Apprentices: Free School Meals
Thursday 6th June 2019

Asked by: Gloria De Piero (Labour - Ashfield)

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of apprenticeship starters who were eligible for free school meals started (a) intermediate, (b) advanced and (c) higher apprenticeships in (i) Ashfield constituency, (ii) Nottinghamshire and (iii) England, in the first quarter of the academic year (A) 2018-19 (B) 2017-18, (C) 2016-17, (D) 2015-16 and (E) 2014-15.

Answered by Anne Milton

Information on the proportion of apprenticeship starters who were eligible for free school meals is not held in the format requested.

We publish data on apprenticeship starts with various breakdowns by level, local authority and parliamentary constituency in the apprenticeships geography and sector subject area tool of the apprenticeships data library. This can be found at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/fe-data-library-apprenticeships.


Written Question
Apprentices: Taxation
Thursday 6th June 2019

Asked by: Gloria De Piero (Labour - Ashfield)

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many businesses in (a) Ashfield constituency, (b) Nottinghamshire and (c) England pay the apprenticeship levy; and how many of these businesses have apprentices working with them.

Answered by Anne Milton

Disaggregated information on the apprenticeship levy that is collected in each constituency, local authority or region of the UK by Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) is not available. Many larger levy-paying employers are headquartered in one region but they employ staff across the country. Therefore, levy data is reported to HMRC by PAYE scheme rather than by organisation, which means that we cannot attribute the levy collected and spent to individual locations. Individual employers can control where apprenticeship funds are spent in order to meet their current and future skills needs.

Since May 2015, there have been 4,690 apprenticeship starts in the Ashfield constituency, 39,650 starts in Nottinghamshire (including in the city of Nottingham) and over 1.7 million starts in England as a whole, reported to date. 49.4% of apprenticeship starts in England were supported by the levy in the first half of 2018/19, which is the most recent period for which data are available.

Income from the levy in England is used to fund apprenticeships for all employers, including apprenticeships started before the introduction of the levy as well as apprenticeships started since the introduction of the levy. We recently announced our intention to move non levy-paying employers onto the apprenticeship service, beginning later this year, giving small to medium-sized businesses a greater choice of quality training providers and the opportunity to be more engaged in apprenticeship training decisions for their business.


Written Question
Apprentices: Taxation
Thursday 6th June 2019

Asked by: Gloria De Piero (Labour - Ashfield)

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of businesses in (a) Ashfield constituency, (b) Nottinghamshire, and (c) England do not pay the apprenticeship levy; and how many of those businesses have apprentices.

Answered by Anne Milton

Disaggregated information on the apprenticeship levy that is collected in each constituency, local authority or region of the UK by Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) is not available. Many larger levy-paying employers are headquartered in one region but they employ staff across the country. Therefore, levy data is reported to HMRC by PAYE scheme rather than by organisation, which means that we cannot attribute the levy collected and spent to individual locations. Individual employers can control where apprenticeship funds are spent in order to meet their current and future skills needs.

Since May 2015, there have been 4,690 apprenticeship starts in the Ashfield constituency, 39,650 starts in Nottinghamshire (including in the city of Nottingham) and over 1.7 million starts in England as a whole, reported to date. 49.4% of apprenticeship starts in England were supported by the levy in the first half of 2018/19, which is the most recent period for which data are available.

Income from the levy in England is used to fund apprenticeships for all employers, including apprenticeships started before the introduction of the levy as well as apprenticeships started since the introduction of the levy. We recently announced our intention to move non levy-paying employers onto the apprenticeship service, beginning later this year, giving small to medium-sized businesses a greater choice of quality training providers and the opportunity to be more engaged in apprenticeship training decisions for their business.


Written Question
Secondary Education: Free School Meals
Thursday 16th May 2019

Asked by: Gloria De Piero (Labour - Ashfield)

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of students qualify for free school meals in each secondary school in (a) Ashfield constituency; and what the average number is of students that qualify for free school meals in secondary schools in England.

Answered by Nadhim Zahawi

The number of pupils eligible for free school meals (FSM) in England is published at the annual ‘Schools, pupils and their characteristics’ statistical release: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/schools-pupils-and-their-characteristics-january-2018.

Data for each school is available in the ‘Schools pupils and their characteristics 2018’, underlying data, contained in file ‘Schools_Pupils_and_their_Characteristics _2018_Schools_Pupils_UD’.

The figures can be filtered by parliamentary constituency name (column X), school phase e.g. state-funded secondary schools (column N). Column EF, EG provide the number and % of pupils known to be eligible for FSM, respectively.

The proportion of pupils eligible for FSM in state-funded secondary schools in England is provided in Table 3a of the national tables.


Written Question
Free School Meals
Wednesday 27th March 2019

Asked by: Gloria De Piero (Labour - Ashfield)

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of children in (a) Ashfield, (b) Rushcliffe, (c) Nottinghamshire and (d) England who are (i) eligible and (ii) not eligible for free school meals, reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at Key Stage 2 at the end of the 2017-2018 academic year.

Answered by Nick Gibb

The information is provided in the tables attached.