Asked by: Nick Fletcher (Conservative - Don Valley)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many state-funded nursery schools in England did not have a male teacher in each of the last five years for which school workforce data are available.
Answered by Nick Gibb
Information on the school workforce, including the number of teachers by gender in each school, is published in the ‘School Workforce in England’ statistical publication, which can be found here: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-workforce-in-england.
Asked by: Nick Fletcher (Conservative - Don Valley)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many state-funded secondary schools in England did not have a male teacher in each of the last five years for which school workforce data are available.
Answered by Nick Gibb
Information on the school workforce, including the number of teachers by gender in each school, is published in the ‘School Workforce in England’ statistical publication, which can be found here: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-workforce-in-england.
Asked by: Nick Fletcher (Conservative - Don Valley)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many state-funded primary schools in England did not have a male teacher in each of the last five years for which school workforce data are available.
Answered by Nick Gibb
Information on the school workforce, including the number of teachers by gender in each school, is published in the ‘School Workforce in England’ statistical publication, which can be found here: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-workforce-in-england.
Asked by: Nick Fletcher (Conservative - Don Valley)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many (a) state-funded special and (b) pupil referral unit schools in England did not have any male teachers in each of the last five school workforce reporting years for which data is available.
Answered by Nick Gibb
Information on the school workforce, including the number of teachers by gender in each school, is published in the ‘School Workforce in England’ statistical publication here: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-workforce-in-england.
The table below provides the number and percentage of a) state-funded special and (b) pupil referral unit schools in England without any male teachers in each of the last five school workforce reporting years for which data is available.
State-funded special and pupil referral unit schools in England without a male teacher, by census year and school type, number and percentage as at November 2017 to 2021:
| State-funded special schools | Pupil referral units1 | ||
Number | Percentage | Number | Percentage | |
2021 | 45 | 4.5% | 16 | 4.9% |
2020 | 45 | 4.5% | 16 | 4.8% |
2019 | 45 | 4.6% | 18 | 5.3% |
2018 | 41 | 4.2% | 17 | 5.1% |
2017 | 48 | 5.0% | 23 | 6.8% |
Source: School Workforce Census
1: Including alternative provision academy schools.
Asked by: Nick Fletcher (Conservative - Don Valley)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when she plans to announce funding arrangements for (a) school games organisers and (b) the PE and sport premium for primary schools for the 2023-24 financial year.
Answered by Nick Gibb
Details of funding for the Primary PE and sport premium and School Games for the 2023/24 academic year will be announced shortly.
Asked by: Nick Fletcher (Conservative - Don Valley)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the statement made by the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Education, HL Deb 24 January 2022, vol 827, col 216 that her Department will send all schools a letter instructing them to show parents who request it the material their children are being taught, when she expects to send that letter.
Answered by Nick Gibb
The Department believes that the majority of schools use high quality, appropriate resources and engage with parents openly and transparently on what they plan to use.
The Department has been made aware of cases where this may not be the case. The Department will write to all schools to clarify how materials can be shared to enable schools to engage with parents. The Department will provide a specific date for the publication of this letter shortly.
Asked by: Nick Fletcher (Conservative - Don Valley)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she plans to review the level of funding provided for children with Education, Health and Care Plans in mainstream education settings.
Answered by Claire Coutinho - Shadow Minister (Equalities)
The Autumn Statement announced significant additional investment in core schools’ funding. The core schools budget, which provides funding for mainstream schools and high needs, will increase by £2 billion in each of the 2023/24 and 2024/25 academic years, over and above totals announced at the 2021 Spending Review.
Schools' funding is £4 billion higher this year than last, and it will rise by another £3.5 billion, on top of that, next year. Taken together, this means an increase of over 15% in just two years.
Local authorities are required by regulations to provide mainstream schools with sufficient funds, through their local schools funding formula, to enable them to meet the additional cost of pupils with special educational needs (SEN), including those with an education, health and care (EHC) plan, up to £6,000. Local authorities identify a notional special educational needs and disability (SEND) budget for schools as a guide to what they may need to spend in supporting their pupils with SEN. The department has issued guidance to local authorities on their calculation of the notional SEN budget using their local funding formula.
When the costs of additional support required for a pupil with SEN exceed £6,000, the local authority should allocate additional top-up funding to cover the excess costs. This funding comes from the local authority’s high needs budget. This may follow a statutory assessment producing an EHC plan, though local authorities have the discretion to provide high needs top-up funding for pupils without an EHC plan.
As the department moves towards a different system for funding mainstream schools, in which the department, rather than local authorities, will determine allocations for individual schools through a single, national formula, we plan to move to a standardised calculation of schools’ indicative budgets for their pupils with SEN. Following the recent consultation on implementing this new system, we are considering the detail on how to achieve this and intend to consult further in future.
In addition, the department has committed to publishing a SEND and alternative provision improvement plan early this year, following the Green Paper publication in March 2022, which set out proposals to improve outcomes for children and young people with SEND, within a fairer and financially sustainable system.
Asked by: Nick Fletcher (Conservative - Don Valley)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many UK nationals began a degree apprenticeship by sex in 2022.
Answered by Robert Halfon
In the 2021/22 academic year, there were 43,200 apprenticeship starts in England at Level 6 and 7 (degree level), of which 22,000 were female and 21,200 were male. Information on the nationality of learners is not held for government funded further education courses via the Individualised Learner Record.
Further information on apprenticeship starts can be found in the apprenticeships and traineeships statistics publication, which can be accessed at: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/apprenticeships-and-traineeships.