Every parliamentary written question tabled by Damian Hinds this session, with the full answer and department. See how every department answers, or back to the MP page.
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What her planned timetable is for publishing results from the school census data collections of (a) 3 October 2024 and (b) 16 January 2025.
In accordance with the Code of Practice for Statistics, statistics publications are pre-announced on the GOV.UK website and are available at: https://www.gov.uk/search/research-and-statistics?content_store_document_type=upcoming_statistics&organisatio...
Pursuant to the Answer of 30 July 2024 to Question 887 on Teachers: Recruitment, which phases of education count towards the 6,500 target of new expert teachers.
The within-school and -college factor that makes the biggest difference to a child’s outcomes is high quality teaching. Although overall teacher numbers in state-funded schools in England have increased from 453,820 full-time equivalent (FTE) in November ...
How many full-time equivalent teachers (a) there were in 2019, (b) there are in 2024 and (c) she plans to have in post by 2029.
The within-school and -college factor that makes the biggest difference to a child’s outcomes is high quality teaching. Although overall teacher numbers in state-funded schools in England have increased from 453,820 full-time equivalent (FTE) in November ...
What her policy is on the 2024-25 pay award for sixth form colleges that are not academies.
The government does not set or recommend pay in further education (FE), including in sixth form colleges. The pay and conditions of FE staff remains the responsibility of individual colleges and providers who are free to implement pay arrangements in line...
What estimate she has made of the number of people employed in independent schools (a) as teachers and (b) in other roles.
Information on the full-time equivalent (FTE) number of teachers in independent schools is published in the ‘Education and training statistics for the UK’ statistical publication, which is available here: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.u...
What estimate she has made of the total amount of public funding for school breakfast clubs in (a) 2009-10 and (b) 2023-24
There are 2,700 schools participating in the National Schools Breakfast Programme. In 2023/24, £12 million was made available to fund the National Breakfast Club Programme. This government will now go further to ensure that every primary school age child ...
How many independent schools (a) opened and (b) closed in each year from the earliest year for which data are available.
The government has maintained a register of independent schools since the Education Act 1944 came into force in 1945. The register shows that 3679 independent schools have opened since 1945. Data on independent school closures is available from 1987 and s...
What her policy is on funding support for breakfast clubs at special schools.
The government is committed to making quick progress to deliver on its commitment to offer breakfast clubs in every school with primary aged pupils. Departmental officials are working closely with schools and sector experts to develop a programme that mee...
What her Department's projected spending is on breakfast club programmes for secondary schools in (a) 2024-25 and (b) 2025-26.
The department will be spending up to £11 million on the National School Breakfast Programme in 2024/25.The government has already taken decisive action by announcing in the King’s Speech that, under the Children’s Wellbeing Bill, every state funded schoo...
What estimate she has made of the number of primary and secondary schools which (a) were offering a free breakfast club at the end of the 2023-2024 academic year and (b) are projected to be offering a free brea
To date, the department has not regularly collected data on the total number of schools that operate breakfast clubs, and, as a result, the department is unable to project the anticipated numbers for this academic year.The National School Breakfast Club P...
What estimate she has made of her Department's spending on (a) activities and (b) provision of food during school holidays in (i) 2009-10 and (ii) 2023-24.
All 153 local authorities are participating in the Holiday Activities and Food (HAF) programme supported by over £200 million a year. The HAF programme provides free childcare places, enriching activities and heathy meals to children from low-income famil...
How many and what proportion of (a) primary, (b) secondary, (c) special schools and (d) alternative provision with 40% or more pupils in bands A-F of the income deprivation affecting children index took up the
The National School Breakfast Programme (NSBP) currently supports up to 2,700 participating schools in disadvantaged areas, meaning that thousands of children from low-income families are being offered free nutritious breakfasts to better support their at...
Whether she plans to continue to report on the (a) outputs of the Teacher Workforce Model and (b) extent to which targets are met.
The department uses the Teacher Workforce Model to calculate postgraduate initial teacher trainee targets each year. These targets are published online each year as part of an official statistics publication, the department intends to publish the 2025/26 ...
What assessment she has made of the potential impact of charging VAT on independent schools on levels of usage of unregistered schools.
Unregistered schools, by their nature, are unregistered and at risk of being unknown, therefore this is not possible to precisely ascertain. It is an offence under Section 96 of the Education and Skills Act 2008 for any person to conduct an unregistered ...
Whether she is making additional resources available to accommodate changes in the number of Education Health and Care Plan applications (a) this and (b) next financial year.
The department is aware not only of the financial pressures that local authorities are facing due to the increasing cost of supporting children and young people with education, health and care (EHC) plans, but also the pressures that the government as a w...
How many children of secondary school age are (a) resident and (b) on the roll in (i) the North West, (ii) Salford Local Authority, (iii) secondary planning area 3550101, (iv) secondary planning area 3550102 an
The department does not hold information on all children and young people by residence.Information on unfilled state secondary school places, as at May 2023, is published in the School Capacity statistics publication, which can be found here: https://expl...
What data on unfilled school capacity by 2024 parliamentary constituency she plans to publish before the Finance Bill is introduced.
The department publishes annual statistics on the capacity and pupils on roll in schools, including unfilled places, each spring. This is available at: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-capacity. Statistics publica...
How many children of secondary school age are (a) resident and (b) on roll at state secondary schools in (i) Yorkshire & the Humber; (ii) York Local Authority and (iii) secondary planning area 8169997; and how
The department does not hold information on all children and young people by residence.Information on unfilled state secondary school places, as at May 2023, is published in the School Capacity statistics publication, which can be found here: https://expl...
How many (a) children of secondary school age are resident, (b) children are on roll at state secondary schools and (c) places are unfilled in state secondary schools in (i) the South West, (ii) the local autho
The department does not hold information on all children and young people by residence.Information on unfilled state secondary school places, as at May 2023, is published in the School Capacity statistics publication, which can be found here: https://expl...
When her Department plans to publish its response to the consultation entitled Guidance for Schools and Colleges: Gender Questioning Children which closed on 12 March 2024
The public consultation entitled ‘Guidance for Schools and Colleges: Gender Questioning Children’ received over 15,000 responses.The government is clear that it is vitally important that teachers have clear guidance, which is why the department will look carefully at the consultation responses over the autumn before responding formally and setting out the next steps to take the Gender Questioning guidance forward.