Every parliamentary written question tabled by Neil O'Brien this session, with the full answer and department. See how every department answers, or back to the MP page.
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With reference to paragraph 2.40 of the Autumn Budget 2024, HC 295, published on 30 October 2024, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of increasing funding rates for (a) public and (b) privat
As announced at Budget, the department expects to provide £8.1 billion for early years entitlements in the 2025/26 financial year, which is around a 30% increase compared to 2024/25, as the department continues to rollout the expansion of the entitlements...
Pursuant to the Answer of 5 November 2024 to Question 11294 on Armed Forces: Cadets, what discussions she had with the Minister for Veterans and People on the School staff instructor grant.
The department works closely with the Ministry of Defence on delivery of the Cadet Expansion Programme (CEP). The CEP is run jointly by the departments and funding decisions are discussed and shared with ministers from both departments in that context.The...
What recent assessment the Government has made of the potential impact of the ending of support payments on the provision of combined cadet forces in state schools.
The government, through the Ministry of Defence, provides in the region of £180 million to support cadets schemes. The Department for Education has contributed up to £1.1 million annually since the academic year 2021/22. This has provided some additional ...
What the cost to the public purse will be per local authority to fund (a) the teachers' pay additional grant, (b) the teachers' pension employer contribution grant and (c) the core schools budget grant for fina
In 2024/25, the department is providing schools and high needs settings with £900 million through the teachers’ pay additional grant (TPAG), £1.1 billion through the teachers’ pension employer contribution grant (TPECG) to support them with the increased ...
How many and what proportion of looked after children were unaccompanied asylum-seeking children in each local authority in each month since January 2017.
Information on the number of looked after children, including unaccompanied asylum-seeking children, is submitted to the department on an annual basis and is published at local authority level in the department’s statistical release, which can be found he...
How many and what proportion of people in leaving care services were former unaccompanied asylum-seeking children in each local authority in each month since January 2017.
Information on the number of looked after children, including unaccompanied asylum-seeking children, is submitted to the department on an annual basis and is published at local authority level in the department’s statistical release, which can be found he...
Pursuant to the Answer of of 13 September 2024 to Question 4411 on Pupils: Per Capita Costs, what the funding per pupil was in state schools for (a) Dedicated Schools Grant block funding, (b) pay and pensions,
Schools core funding is allocated through the dedicated schools grant (DSG), which includes growth and premises funding. These can be found as separate funding lines in the published DSG tables. DSG allocations are available at a regional and local author...
How many graduates of each higher education institution (a) have outstanding student loans and (b) are paying off such loans.
The attached table shows the number of borrowers who are liable to repay (i.e. are past their Statutory Repayment Due Date (SRDD) and have an outstanding loan) and of those, how many have ever made a repayment, split by Higher Education Provider (HEP).The...
What the average spend per pupil was in state schools in each year since 1994, broken down by region.
The table below provides per pupil funding units from 2018/19 to 2024/25, which represents the funding provided for schools in all regions, nationally. The department cannot provide comparable funding data back to 1994, due to the changes in the funding s...
How much her Department spent on communications in the last year for which data is available.
The department uses marketing to support the delivery of strategic aims and government priorities, including to recruit teachers and early years professionals, reform the skills landscape, and drive take up of products and services like apprenticeships, T Levels and childcare entitlements.The department’s total spend on advertising and communications was £48 million in 2023/24. More information on the department’s accounts for 2023/24, the last year for which data is available, can be found in the link below: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/66a78085ce1fd0da7b592e80/DfE_consolidated_annual_report_and_accounts_2023_to_2024_-_web-optimised_version.pdf.