Asked by: Tim Loughton (Conservative - East Worthing and Shoreham)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many families with a household income of (a) £50,000 to £70,000, (b) £70,001 to £90,000, (c) £90,001 to £110,00,0 (d) £110,001 to £130,000, (e) £130,001 to £150,000 claim childcare benefits.
Answered by Nick Gibb
The information requested is not held centrally.
Asked by: Tim Loughton (Conservative - East Worthing and Shoreham)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many women over the age of 60 have taken up apprenticeships in the last five years.
Answered by Michelle Donelan - Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology
The number of women aged 60 and over that have started an apprenticeship from the 2014/15 academic year onwards is shown in the table below:
| 2014/15 | 2015/16 | 2016/17 | 2017/18 | 2018/19 |
Female, 60+ apprenticeship starts | 1,690 | 1,780 | 1,900 | 980 | 980 |
Notes:
1) Volumes are rounded to the nearest ten.
2) The data source is the Individualised Learner Record (ILR).
3) Age is calculated based upon age at start of the apprenticeship programme.
4) Numbers are counted for the full, final academic years from August to July.
5) Apprenticeship starts include all funded and unfunded learners reported on the ILR.
Asked by: Tim Loughton (Conservative - East Worthing and Shoreham)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when he plans to announce plans for the continued funding of the Adoption Support Fund; and if he will make a statement.
Answered by Michelle Donelan - Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology
My right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Education, announced on 15 October that the Adoption Support Fund (ASF) will continue until 2021. https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-government-support-for-adoptive-families.
Funding post 2021 will be subject to the full Spending Review, planned in 2020. This review is expected to set multi-year budgets for all government departments. Funding for the ASF will be considered as part of this process.
Asked by: Tim Loughton (Conservative - East Worthing and Shoreham)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, for what reasons children subject to Special Guardianship Orders do not benefit from the same rights of preferential access to schools currently enjoyed by children in care and adopted children; and if he will make a statement.
Answered by Michelle Donelan - Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology
Looked-after children are amongst the most vulnerable in our society and, wherever possible, they should be admitted to the school which is most able to meet their needs.
That is why the School Admissions Code requires the admissions authorities of all schools, including academies, to give highest priority in their admissions criteria to looked-after children and previously looked-after children. This includes children who are subject to child arrangements orders and special guardianship orders.
Asked by: Tim Loughton (Conservative - East Worthing and Shoreham)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many Special Guardianship Orders have been (a) initiated and (b) terminated in each of the last ten years; and how many and what proportion of children subject to those Special Guardianship Orders have been placed with grandparents.
Answered by Michelle Donelan - Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology
Figures on the number of looked-after children who were made the subject of a Special Guardianship order during the year in each of the last 5 years are published in Tables D1 and E5 of the statistical release ‘Children looked after in England including adoption: 2017 to 2018’ at https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/children-looked-after-in-england-including-adoption-2017-to-2018. Figures for earlier years are published in table D1 in previous releases Statistics: looked-after children - GOV.UK. Regarding details on whether the guardians are grandparents, this information is not held centrally.
Regarding details on whether a special guardianship is terminated, this information is not held centrally and is not collected. Figures on the number of children starting to be looked-after, having previously been the subject of a special guardianship order, are published in Table C1 of the statistical release ‘Children looked after in England including adoption: 2017 to 2018’ at https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/children-looked-after-in-england-including-adoption-2017-to-2018, These figures have only been collected since 2014-15 and caution should be used when interpreting this data as there is a high proportion of unknowns.
Asked by: Tim Loughton (Conservative - East Worthing and Shoreham)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proposals he has for reforming Special Guardianship Orders.
Answered by Michelle Donelan - Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology
The Adoption and Special Guardianship Leadership Board was established to provide leadership to the system and drive improvements. The board is currently undertaking a piece of work called the Adoption & Special Guardianship Support Blueprint. This will set out what a good quality support service would look like, based on the best practice from around the country.
Asked by: Tim Loughton (Conservative - East Worthing and Shoreham)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of students participating in the Frontline programme graduated with a diploma or Masters degree in each year since that programme has been in operation.
Answered by Michelle Donelan - Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology
The number and proportion of Frontline participants graduating with a postgraduate diploma or master’s degree, and the number of Frontline graduates placed into social work positions in each year of the programme are in the table attached.
These figures are based on currently completed exam boards. The 2017 cohort has yet to complete this process.
Asked by: Tim Loughton (Conservative - East Worthing and Shoreham)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many graduates of the Frontline programme have been placed into social work positions in each year since the first cohort of that programme graduated.
Answered by Michelle Donelan - Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology
The number and proportion of Frontline participants graduating with a postgraduate diploma or master’s degree, and the number of Frontline graduates placed into social work positions in each year of the programme are in the table attached.
These figures are based on currently completed exam boards. The 2017 cohort has yet to complete this process.
Asked by: Tim Loughton (Conservative - East Worthing and Shoreham)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many students have graduated with archaeology-based degrees in each of the last ten years.
Answered by Chris Skidmore
The Higher Education Statistics Agency collects and publishes statistics on enrolments and qualifications obtained at UK Higher Education Institutions. Latest statistics refer to the academic year 2017/18. Statistics on qualifications obtained by subject areas are available in Table 19 of their Open Data pages:
https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/students/table-19.
The number of first-degree qualifiers from archaeology-based subjects has been provided in the table.
Academic year | Forensic & Archaeological Sciences | Archaeology | Combined Total |
2008/09 | 1,710 | 905 | 2,615 |
2009/10 | 1,710 | 880 | 2,590 |
2010/11 | 1,755 | 900 | 2,655 |
2011/12 | 1,940 | 920 | 2,860 |
2012/13 | 1,890 | 900 | 2,790 |
2013/14 | 1,920 | 905 | 2,825 |
2014/15 | 1,570 | 750 | 2,320 |
2015/16 | 1,640 | 870 | 2,510 |
2016/17 | 1,645 | 815 | 2,460 |
2017/18 | 1,650 | 830 | 2,480 |
Asked by: Tim Loughton (Conservative - East Worthing and Shoreham)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Transport on the number of qualified archaeologists required for the construction of High Speed Two.
Answered by Chris Skidmore
My right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Education meets his counterparts and officials from other government departments regularly to discuss the Department for Education agenda.