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Good afternoon and welcome to BBC Parliament's live coverage of the | :00:00. | :00:15. | |
Commons. At around 3:30pm there will be a prime ministerial statement, | :00:16. | :00:19. | |
with Theresa May talking about last week's European Council summit. | :00:20. | :00:26. | |
After that, Liz Truss will be talking about the disturbances at | :00:27. | :00:30. | |
Her Majesty's prison in Birmingham for a third statement on Yemen. The | :00:31. | :00:36. | |
main business is a debate on Brexit. Join me for the highlights of both | :00:37. | :00:37. | |
Houses of Parliament at 11pm. We are committed to ensuring that we | :00:38. | :00:55. | |
childcare that families need. We are childcare that families need. We are | :00:56. | :01:02. | |
investing record funding of ?1 billion per year, have announced a | :01:03. | :01:10. | |
fire early funding system and are providing nearly 4000 places one | :01:11. | :01:21. | |
year early. Last week I visited a very well-respected local nursery. | :01:22. | :01:23. | |
They are concerned about the level They are concerned about the level | :01:24. | :01:29. | |
of funding they will receive. Can she give us some reassurance and | :01:30. | :01:32. | |
would she like to visit the school because they would be delighted to | :01:33. | :01:38. | |
see her? I thank my honourable friend for that. I would be more | :01:39. | :01:45. | |
than happy to visit. He is right to highlight the importance of this and | :01:46. | :01:54. | |
that is why we've committed to providing these until the end of the | :01:55. | :02:02. | |
Parliament. Isn't it the case that the promise is being funded by | :02:03. | :02:09. | |
nurses and can the Secretary of nurses and can the Secretary of | :02:10. | :02:13. | |
State tell us what analysis she has undertaken of the damage that will | :02:14. | :02:19. | |
be done by the cuts she is making? It is a rather churlish comment and | :02:20. | :02:25. | |
we are investing more money in this policy than any government ever. ?6 | :02:26. | :02:31. | |
billion. He needs to be more appreciative, I think. Working | :02:32. | :02:39. | |
parents in my constituency very much welcome the 30 hours of free | :02:40. | :02:43. | |
childcare. Can the Minister set out for them, particularly those with | :02:44. | :02:47. | |
disabled children, how they will disabled children, how they will | :02:48. | :02:52. | |
make sure there is sufficient funding available to give children | :02:53. | :02:54. | |
the best start in life through that scheme. She's absolutely right. I | :02:55. | :03:02. | |
was in a nursery in new and they were already seeing a massive | :03:03. | :03:07. | |
difference this is making to working families and it is with regard to | :03:08. | :03:13. | |
children with special educational needs, there is a fund which will go | :03:14. | :03:19. | |
towards them. I hope the Minister will agree that the pupil premium | :03:20. | :03:26. | |
provides vital support to some of our most disadvantaged children and | :03:27. | :03:34. | |
we want them to know that many will not be able to care for the most | :03:35. | :03:39. | |
vulnerable children when the 30 hours is introduced so will the | :03:40. | :03:43. | |
Minister guarantee that all of the money will go to our most vulnerable | :03:44. | :03:47. | |
children and this vital resource will not be cut this Parliament? It | :03:48. | :03:55. | |
will continue and will continue to go to the most vulnerable children. | :03:56. | :04:06. | |
We are committed to making sure as many pupils as possible have a place | :04:07. | :04:11. | |
at school. The latest report shows that standards have risen compared | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
to 2010, when 1.8 million more pupils are taught in good or | :04:17. | :04:24. | |
outstanding skills, proposals are in place in the consultation. I am very | :04:25. | :04:32. | |
encouraged by the reply from the Minister. One of the issues raised | :04:33. | :04:39. | |
by them is securing school places for siblings. Will my right | :04:40. | :04:48. | |
honourable friend look at this as part of her plans? Any changes in | :04:49. | :04:52. | |
relation to the overall way that the code operates will be scrutinised by | :04:53. | :04:57. | |
this house, she will be aware that admissions for authorities are | :04:58. | :05:01. | |
responsible for setting their own admissions arrangements. But | :05:02. | :05:03. | |
actually it allows them to prioritise siblings and some | :05:04. | :05:07. | |
authorities choose to do that already. Headteachers in my | :05:08. | :05:17. | |
constituency say they are stymied by changing expectations from | :05:18. | :05:23. | |
government. Will the Secretary of State reassure her teachers in my | :05:24. | :05:27. | |
constituency that expectations will not keep changing without good | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
reason? I had a chance to visit one of the schools last week which was a | :05:33. | :05:37. | |
fantastic opportunity, they were working with Bristol University, and | :05:38. | :05:42. | |
in relation to the continued reforms, we want to make sure we see | :05:43. | :05:45. | |
improvements in classrooms and she will no doubt welcome the fact that | :05:46. | :05:49. | |
we launched the strategic school improvement fund which is about | :05:50. | :05:52. | |
making sure we can get the investment in schools that need to | :05:53. | :06:01. | |
improve quickly and effectively. Skills include technical provision | :06:02. | :06:06. | |
as a must, so does the Secretary of State agree that university | :06:07. | :06:10. | |
technical colleges play an important role in this and these should be | :06:11. | :06:16. | |
good and outstanding? We expect them to deliver high standards. I had the | :06:17. | :06:24. | |
chance to go to Didcot UTC and it was providing a fantastic education, | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
are very different one but one that worked for them in their interest. | :06:29. | :06:31. | |
It was getting very good results because of that. Thank you, Mr | :06:32. | :06:39. | |
Speaker. It is my understanding that in the last two years there were | :06:40. | :06:42. | |
over 60 schools which have been rated inadequate weir and an Academy | :06:43. | :06:51. | |
order has been issued and a sponsor yet to be identified. How does that | :06:52. | :06:57. | |
uncertainty help improve standards in those schools? We are committed | :06:58. | :07:00. | |
to making sure that when we see schools that are not achieving the | :07:01. | :07:03. | |
results that they need to for those children that we have a strong | :07:04. | :07:07. | |
approach that is steadily improving the schools and working with them to | :07:08. | :07:10. | |
approve, but where they cannot improve we want to make sure that | :07:11. | :07:16. | |
changes take place in terms of leadership and school sponsorship, | :07:17. | :07:20. | |
that means schools have got the flexibility and freedom to get | :07:21. | :07:30. | |
better. Yes. Thank you, Mr Speaker. As a former Acton residents, I'm | :07:31. | :07:43. | |
sure they will share concerns... They have a full role of students, a | :07:44. | :07:50. | |
secure site but no physical building. Can she do everything she | :07:51. | :07:53. | |
can to pressure the funding authority to find the shortfall that | :07:54. | :08:00. | |
Balfour Beatty want, because East Acton is the most deprived wards... | :08:01. | :08:07. | |
She's made her point with great force and eloquence but it does not | :08:08. | :08:12. | |
need to be made at any further point. Acton is a place I very much | :08:13. | :08:20. | |
enjoy living in and it is important we see school standards raised in | :08:21. | :08:24. | |
Acton. I will look very carefully at the particular issues she has raised | :08:25. | :08:28. | |
and perhaps write to her to find out what she can advise we do to speed | :08:29. | :08:34. | |
things up. There is a skill in my constituency, two of my children | :08:35. | :08:37. | |
attended, so do 1000 of its children, and it has been placed in | :08:38. | :08:43. | |
special measures and will become an Academy, which I support, but the | :08:44. | :08:47. | |
choice of Academy has been made and subsequently retracted pending | :08:48. | :08:53. | |
surveys on the school. The process is flawed. Would the secretary take | :08:54. | :09:00. | |
a look at this with urgency? I'm aware of this matter because he has | :09:01. | :09:06. | |
done his rule as a fantastic local MP in already raising it with me and | :09:07. | :09:09. | |
it is something we are looking at within the Department to see whether | :09:10. | :09:13. | |
we can make sure that the barriers preventing their school from getting | :09:14. | :09:17. | |
a great sponsor that can help improve it, not just for his own | :09:18. | :09:19. | |
children but all the children there, can be quickly removed. | :09:20. | :09:29. | |
Multi-Academy trusts enable the sharing of staff and expertise that | :09:30. | :09:33. | |
can help foster a truly excellent special education provision and | :09:34. | :09:42. | |
special schools can be helpful in supporting children with special | :09:43. | :09:43. | |
education needs as well as provision education needs as well as provision | :09:44. | :09:49. | |
alongside mainstream provision. Some examples can be found in the good | :09:50. | :09:52. | |
practice guidance published on the 9th of December. I was going to ask | :09:53. | :10:01. | |
him to issue further guidance when I tabled the question in December. I | :10:02. | :10:06. | |
don't think it has been issued so I'm grateful for that. I would | :10:07. | :10:09. | |
encourage him to look at special needs schools operating as special | :10:10. | :10:16. | |
needs schools because there is a difference between thousands of | :10:17. | :10:22. | |
pupils. I think the honourable gentleman is encouraged by the power | :10:23. | :10:26. | |
of his own question tabling. I expect nothing less from the | :10:27. | :10:33. | |
honourable gentleman. He raises an important issue. We continue to | :10:34. | :10:41. | |
provide guidance in this area. I would encourage any newly forming | :10:42. | :10:46. | |
organisation to get in touch. You've moved to number four. Very | :10:47. | :11:08. | |
well. I thank the Minister for meeting to discuss the contents of | :11:09. | :11:12. | |
my ten minute rule Bill to do with special needs. He mentioned the | :11:13. | :11:18. | |
arrangements were not ideal and needed some adjustment and mentioned | :11:19. | :11:23. | |
a consultation. Could he give us any more information on that? I welcome | :11:24. | :11:28. | |
a lot of sympathy for the cause he a lot of sympathy for the cause he | :11:29. | :11:37. | |
makes within it. I can commit to a consultation early in the New Year | :11:38. | :11:39. | |
and I know that he will want to contribute along with others | :11:40. | :11:48. | |
interested in this issue. Great teachers are critical to improving | :11:49. | :11:51. | |
educational outcomes. Teaching is a profession and we are supporting the | :11:52. | :11:55. | |
development of teachers including through the new leadership | :11:56. | :12:00. | |
innovation fund and the new chartered College of teaching and | :12:01. | :12:04. | |
also through investment in improving curriculum expertise and in | :12:05. | :12:10. | |
particular in maths which I saw for myself on a recent visit to China. | :12:11. | :12:17. | |
In the paper that was produced in In the paper that was produced in | :12:18. | :12:22. | |
March in 2016, there was a good proposal in that paper for a | :12:23. | :12:26. | |
national teacher vacancy website to national teacher vacancy website to | :12:27. | :12:31. | |
ensure that the cost of recruitment was kept down. What progress is | :12:32. | :12:32. | |
being made? She set out a commitment we made in | :12:33. | :12:41. | |
the March White Paper. It is going to offer a website with a free route | :12:42. | :12:46. | |
for schools to advertise teacher vacancies, but also provide teachers | :12:47. | :12:50. | |
with easier access to information about job opportunities. We have | :12:51. | :12:54. | |
worked closely with schools and teachers on testing out different | :12:55. | :12:57. | |
approaches for how to deliver that website so we can make sure it adds | :12:58. | :13:04. | |
maximum value to all schools. Whenever I meet young people in my | :13:05. | :13:07. | |
constituency, they tell me that the thing that could most affect their | :13:08. | :13:11. | |
educational outcomes is a curriculum for life and compulsory PSAT in all | :13:12. | :13:18. | |
schools. The curriculum was last updated before Facebook was even | :13:19. | :13:24. | |
invented. Teachers go unsupported and untrained. If yesterday's | :13:25. | :13:28. | |
briefings to the papers are to be believed, the government is | :13:29. | :13:31. | |
considering bringing in compulsory PSHE. Is this true, and if so, when | :13:32. | :13:40. | |
will it happen? It is urgent. I was clear in my first education select | :13:41. | :13:43. | |
committee appearance but I felt this was an area we needed to look at, | :13:44. | :13:47. | |
which is what we are doing. It is not just a question of updating the | :13:48. | :13:51. | |
guidance, it is also about the schools that it is taught in. It is | :13:52. | :13:55. | |
also about the quality of the teaching that happens as well. As | :13:56. | :14:00. | |
someone who did pure maths and applied maths as well as physics and | :14:01. | :14:05. | |
English at A-level, I am very keen mathematics teaching. I was | :14:06. | :14:11. | |
wondering, what was the Secretary of State's assessment of the recent | :14:12. | :14:14. | |
mathematics teacher exchange between the United Kingdom and China? I | :14:15. | :14:24. | |
think it has worked fantastically well so far. We have seen 131 | :14:25. | :14:29. | |
teachers from England visiting Shanghai and 127 teachers from | :14:30. | :14:33. | |
Shanghai visiting English schools. Through that exchange, our teachers | :14:34. | :14:37. | |
have observed Shanghai teaching methods. And in the 48 schools that | :14:38. | :14:41. | |
have taken part in the study, most teachers have implemented changes | :14:42. | :14:46. | |
which have led to increased enthusiasm for mathematics, | :14:47. | :14:49. | |
hopefully as strong as his was at school, deeper engagement and | :14:50. | :14:51. | |
increased confidence, but critically, higher attainment. One | :14:52. | :14:58. | |
of the best ways to support teachers in improving educational outcomes, | :14:59. | :15:01. | |
particularly for children with special needs, is through the pupil | :15:02. | :15:05. | |
premium. Will she therefore explain to the House why the level of the | :15:06. | :15:08. | |
pupil premium has been frozen at current levels through this | :15:09. | :15:15. | |
Parliament? The pupil premium was of course something that the previous | :15:16. | :15:18. | |
coalition government introduced and is continuing to be supported | :15:19. | :15:22. | |
throughout this Parliament to make sure funding goes to those children | :15:23. | :15:26. | |
who need it most. Last week, I announced the national funding | :15:27. | :15:31. | |
formula, which also prioritises resources going towards children | :15:32. | :15:36. | |
with a distant advantage. The Secretary of State will know how | :15:37. | :15:39. | |
traumatic it is for students and teachers in getting children through | :15:40. | :15:46. | |
GCSE maths and English resits, which can often blight their post-GCSE | :15:47. | :15:51. | |
students. Can we have a curriculum which is vocationally based for | :15:52. | :15:54. | |
numeracy and literacy, which will give people the skills they need for | :15:55. | :15:57. | |
work without having to go through this traumatic and often wasteful | :15:58. | :16:01. | |
experience? It is important that all children leaving our education | :16:02. | :16:05. | |
system leave with something to show for their names, particularly on | :16:06. | :16:12. | |
maths and English. That is why we brought in the GCSE resits policy. | :16:13. | :16:17. | |
For students who achieved a D and were close to being able to get to | :16:18. | :16:20. | |
the better standard, they should have another go at doing that. | :16:21. | :16:25. | |
However, the functional skills qualifications have been | :16:26. | :16:27. | |
well-received by employers and we want to look at how they can also | :16:28. | :16:31. | |
play a role in enabling all young people to show their | :16:32. | :16:39. | |
accomplishments. Grammar schools are the Prime Minister's flagship policy | :16:40. | :16:44. | |
for improving outcomes, but today the Independent is saying that | :16:45. | :16:49. | |
officials in the Department for Education have said there is no | :16:50. | :16:54. | |
chance of a new selective school before 2020. Can the Secretary of | :16:55. | :16:57. | |
State confirm how many selective schools are to be built in this | :16:58. | :17:04. | |
Parliament? The consultation finished last week. We will now look | :17:05. | :17:09. | |
at the responses to it. We have to recognise that we need an education | :17:10. | :17:13. | |
system that has more good school places, especially for children in | :17:14. | :17:16. | |
parts of the country that don't have access to them. Rather than carping | :17:17. | :17:22. | |
with no suggestions, I hope we can have a good debate now that the | :17:23. | :17:25. | |
consultation has finished and bring forward additional grammar school | :17:26. | :17:26. | |
places. The school workforce census reports | :17:27. | :17:41. | |
a constant vacancy rate of 0.2% of teachers in post. New analysis | :17:42. | :17:45. | |
published in September looks at the proportion of schools with at least | :17:46. | :17:49. | |
one vacancy. This measure has sung the Luke shown some variance since | :17:50. | :17:56. | |
2010, with London having the highest proportion of vacancies. The | :17:57. | :17:58. | |
department is also working to identify those schools experiencing | :17:59. | :18:01. | |
the greatest teacher shortages and to support them to meet those | :18:02. | :18:06. | |
challenges. Good teaching depends on retaining good teachers in the | :18:07. | :18:09. | |
profession. Does the minister not accept that the consistent | :18:10. | :18:12. | |
underfunding of schools in disadvantaged areas such as the | :18:13. | :18:15. | |
north-east makes retaining teachers difficult, and will he look again at | :18:16. | :18:20. | |
the cost adjustment element of the national funding formula that could | :18:21. | :18:23. | |
have the adverse effect of sending money away from disadvantaged areas | :18:24. | :18:29. | |
into more affluent ones? We have protected the score schools but in | :18:30. | :18:32. | |
real terms throughout this Parliament and the last. We have | :18:33. | :18:37. | |
also grasped the nettle, something the Labour government failed to do | :18:38. | :18:41. | |
while in office, of introducing fair funding. One of the elements of that | :18:42. | :18:47. | |
is in ensuring sufficient funds to tackle disadvantaged and lower | :18:48. | :18:54. | |
attainment. Schools in Somerset have great teachers, but find it hard to | :18:55. | :18:57. | |
recruit does. Does my right honourable friend agree that | :18:58. | :19:01. | |
adjusting the funding formula will help rural areas like mine attract | :19:02. | :19:06. | |
and retain excellent teachers? My honourable friend is right. Areas | :19:07. | :19:12. | |
around the country have been underfunded for many years. We have | :19:13. | :19:20. | |
been the first government that has grasped this nettle introducing a | :19:21. | :19:25. | |
much fairer national funding formula that will deal with these historic, | :19:26. | :19:28. | |
and anachronistic and unfair national funding formulas. Regarding | :19:29. | :19:38. | |
the proposed funding formula last week, can I ask the minister how it | :19:39. | :19:41. | |
helps recruit and retain teachers when all but one of the schools in | :19:42. | :19:45. | |
my constituency will lose money under the funding formula? The | :19:46. | :19:52. | |
national funding formula has been introduced to ensure that we have a | :19:53. | :19:57. | |
fair funding system. We are consulting on that system over the | :19:58. | :20:00. | |
next 40 weeks, and I am sure the honourable gentleman will send him | :20:01. | :20:07. | |
his representations. If an outstanding academy in the New | :20:08. | :20:12. | |
Forest, minutes from the seaside, is having difficulty recruiting an | :20:13. | :20:15. | |
English teacher, what hope is there for anywhere else? My honourable | :20:16. | :20:23. | |
friend raises an important point. The national funding formula will | :20:24. | :20:26. | |
help schools have the resources to enable them to use the discretion we | :20:27. | :20:31. | |
have given schools in how they reward teachers, particularly in | :20:32. | :20:34. | |
those subjects where they find it difficult to recruit. Can I take | :20:35. | :20:46. | |
this opportunity to wish the House well. The Association of schools and | :20:47. | :20:53. | |
college leaders have found that opening up new grammars may worsen | :20:54. | :20:58. | |
new teacher recruitment is. Doesn't he think the priority should be | :20:59. | :21:00. | |
incentivising teacher recruitment and retention, rather than taking | :21:01. | :21:06. | |
the retrograde step of providing new armers that will do nothing for new | :21:07. | :21:16. | |
pupils and parents? We are prioritising teacher recruitment. We | :21:17. | :21:21. | |
met 94% of our target last year and 93% this year. We are recruiting | :21:22. | :21:25. | |
more teachers in science than before. She should look at the | :21:26. | :21:29. | |
number of teachers coming into teacher training, and acknowledge | :21:30. | :21:33. | |
the fact that there are 456,000 teachers in our schools today, an | :21:34. | :21:38. | |
all-time high, and there are 50,000 more teachers today than in 2010. | :21:39. | :21:49. | |
May I take the opportunity to thank the honourable gentleman for the | :21:50. | :21:56. | |
work he does for education. Helping all young people to get the careers | :21:57. | :22:00. | |
education and guidance they need is crucial to delivering social | :22:01. | :22:06. | |
mobility. That is why we are investing ?90 million over the | :22:07. | :22:09. | |
parliament to ensure that every young person has access to advice | :22:10. | :22:12. | |
and inspiration to fulfil their potential. This includes further | :22:13. | :22:15. | |
funding for the careers and enterprise company to continue the | :22:16. | :22:21. | |
excellent work it has started, including 1 million for the first | :22:22. | :22:28. | |
six opportunity areas. The all-party group for education is conducting an | :22:29. | :22:31. | |
inquiry into how we prepare children for their future careers. It seems | :22:32. | :22:37. | |
to be not just the academic, but also the soft skills. Does the | :22:38. | :22:41. | |
government feel that it is doing that ably enough, and would you | :22:42. | :22:47. | |
attend the launch of our document when it is produced on the 7th of | :22:48. | :22:53. | |
February? The honourable gentleman makes an important point. Not enough | :22:54. | :22:58. | |
schools are encouraging their children to do not just soft skills, | :22:59. | :23:04. | |
but all skills and technical education and apprenticeships. We | :23:05. | :23:07. | |
have worked to change that and make sure schools talk about | :23:08. | :23:11. | |
apprenticeships and skills when they give careers advice. We are | :23:12. | :23:14. | |
investing millions in the careers enterprise company, which is going | :23:15. | :23:20. | |
to look after 250,000 students in areas of the country that have least | :23:21. | :23:26. | |
careers provision. In terms of the event that the honourable gentleman | :23:27. | :23:30. | |
has asked me to, I will do my best. I have to obviously check the diary. | :23:31. | :23:37. | |
The junction of the careers and enterprise company will do a great | :23:38. | :23:41. | |
deal to improve careers advice among secondary school students. But to | :23:42. | :23:45. | |
encourage more girls into a science career, we have to start earlier in | :23:46. | :23:49. | |
primary schools. Can the minister confirmed that increasing diversity | :23:50. | :23:53. | |
in the careers that leads to greater productivity will form a central | :23:54. | :24:00. | |
part of the Stem related strategies? Again, my honourable friend is | :24:01. | :24:05. | |
right. We need to do everything was able to ensure that young people do | :24:06. | :24:09. | |
the empty macro subjects are encouraged into doing so -- the Stem | :24:10. | :24:16. | |
subjects. That is why we are encouraging apprenticeships. It is | :24:17. | :24:19. | |
why the get up and go campaign focuses on Stem subjects and | :24:20. | :24:23. | |
encouraging more women to do the skills we need. I am glad to hear of | :24:24. | :24:30. | |
the minister's support for young people studying Stem subjects. Does | :24:31. | :24:36. | |
he share my disappointment that the GCSE in environmental science has | :24:37. | :24:42. | |
now been discontinued? There are alternative qualifications. I would | :24:43. | :24:46. | |
also add that we are creating a state-of-the-art technical education | :24:47. | :24:49. | |
system with 15 different pathways, which will have important technical | :24:50. | :24:55. | |
routes and qualifications that will have the prestige and give employers | :24:56. | :25:02. | |
the qualifications that they need. The minister knows that university | :25:03. | :25:06. | |
technical colleges can be a fantastic route into | :25:07. | :25:08. | |
apprenticeships, degrees and jobs. The proposed Gloucestershire health | :25:09. | :25:13. | |
university technical College will be a magnificent example of this, but | :25:14. | :25:17. | |
with the minister to the chamber when the delayed deadline for UCT | :25:18. | :25:26. | |
applications will be announced? My honourable friend is right to | :25:27. | :25:29. | |
highlight the importance of UCT and here's a champion of apprentices and | :25:30. | :25:34. | |
skills in his constituency since he has been elected. I will speak to my | :25:35. | :25:38. | |
honourable friend the UCT minister about question he raises. Question | :25:39. | :25:55. | |
number seven, Mr Speaker. Following the EU referendum on the 23rd of | :25:56. | :25:59. | |
June, we are considering all aspects of how the vote of the people of the | :26:00. | :26:04. | |
United Kingdom to leave the EU might impact on further education | :26:05. | :26:08. | |
institutions. This includes consideration of institutions' | :26:09. | :26:11. | |
access to EU funding sources. We are committed to ensuring that the FE | :26:12. | :26:14. | |
sector remains effective in delivering learning that provides | :26:15. | :26:18. | |
individuals with the skills the economy needs for growth. The | :26:19. | :26:25. | |
Chancellor of the Exchequer committed to stability in the period | :26:26. | :26:28. | |
leading up to departure from the EU. Further institutions in Glasgow need | :26:29. | :26:39. | |
a certainty in this scenario, including those who have benefited | :26:40. | :26:43. | |
from European social fund to the tune of ?1.5 million this year | :26:44. | :26:48. | |
alone. Brexit is not a circumstance of Glasgow's choosing. Will the | :26:49. | :26:52. | |
government commit to abandon the empty "Brexit means Brexit" rhetoric | :26:53. | :26:57. | |
and publish detailed plans on Sunday? I say to the honourable lady | :26:58. | :27:05. | |
that leaving the European Union means that we all want to take our | :27:06. | :27:11. | |
own decisions about how to deliver the policy objectives previously | :27:12. | :27:15. | |
targeted by EU funding. The government is consulting closely | :27:16. | :27:17. | |
with stakeholders to review all EU funding schemes to ensure that any | :27:18. | :27:22. | |
ongoing funding commitments best serve the UK's national interest, | :27:23. | :27:25. | |
while ensuring appropriate certainty. | :27:26. | :27:33. | |
You are not be sensible for the government to commit simply | :27:34. | :27:40. | |
replacing EU funding with UK funding, keeping everyone happy? My | :27:41. | :27:50. | |
honourable friend makes an important point. The government of the UK will | :27:51. | :27:55. | |
decide how best to spend the money that was previously going to the | :27:56. | :28:05. | |
European Union. Colleges Scotland have received 250 million in EU | :28:06. | :28:11. | |
funding to fund capital projects. Given it was this government who | :28:12. | :28:15. | |
gambled away Scotland's membership, what is the likelihood of this | :28:16. | :28:18. | |
government replacing this type of vital funding in the years ahead. I | :28:19. | :28:32. | |
find it interesting that the party's position is to campaign for more | :28:33. | :28:35. | |
powers to go from Westminster to Scotland and yet they would like | :28:36. | :28:41. | |
funding decisions decided in the EU than in Scotland. Having said that | :28:42. | :28:45. | |
she will know the Chancellor has announced the Treasury will | :28:46. | :28:51. | |
guarantee investment bids which are signed before the UK leaves the EU | :28:52. | :28:56. | |
including funding for projects agreed after the Autumn Statement if | :28:57. | :29:00. | |
they represent good value for money and if they are aligned with the | :29:01. | :29:02. | |
continue beyond the departure from continue beyond the departure from | :29:03. | :29:11. | |
the EU. We know that our further education colleges benefit hugely | :29:12. | :29:14. | |
from European social funds. The government told me in February that | :29:15. | :29:22. | |
the funding agency had ?725 million and 120 million went to colleges | :29:23. | :29:31. | |
from funding, it guarantees jobs and skills. Can the Minister guarantee | :29:32. | :29:34. | |
that government will replace this after Brexit and F E colleges, which | :29:35. | :29:43. | |
provide courses and get the same guarantee as universities? Thank | :29:44. | :29:51. | |
you, Mr Speaker, I had hoped in the spirit of Christmas the honourable | :29:52. | :29:56. | |
gentleman might have welcomed the 900,000 apprenticeship | :29:57. | :30:02. | |
participation, the highest in our island's history. The access to | :30:03. | :30:08. | |
European funding is one aspect of business that is impacted by the | :30:09. | :30:11. | |
decision to leave the European Union and we are considering all aspects | :30:12. | :30:17. | |
of how colleges may be affected but it is worth noting that by 2020 the | :30:18. | :30:21. | |
adult budget will be the highest in the nation's history if you include | :30:22. | :30:26. | |
apprenticeships. All this getting up is good | :30:27. | :30:45. | |
preparation for Christmas. If he knows he has the next question he is | :30:46. | :30:50. | |
very welcome to remain standing at the box, nobody would think there is | :30:51. | :30:53. | |
anything disorderly or unreasonable about that. Thank you, it is good | :30:54. | :30:58. | |
for the calories in advance of Christmas. | :30:59. | :31:11. | |
We are making over 60 million support apprenticeship take-up from | :31:12. | :31:22. | |
disadvantaged areas. Our campaign aims to get more young people to | :31:23. | :31:26. | |
apply for an apprenticeship. We are increasing the number of | :31:27. | :31:32. | |
traineeships. What measures is he putting in place to overcome | :31:33. | :31:37. | |
barriers to accessing apprenticeships and for ensuring a | :31:38. | :31:45. | |
good promotion of them by schools? I thank my honourable friend for this | :31:46. | :31:50. | |
question. We are putting 60 million in deprived areas to encourage | :31:51. | :31:57. | |
trainers to have that. We are putting a lot of funding into | :31:58. | :32:03. | |
helping 16-18 -year-olds, supporting businesses and providers. We are | :32:04. | :32:08. | |
supporting health and social care apprenticeships if they have a plan | :32:09. | :32:20. | |
from the local authority. We're giving 12 million to the fund. This | :32:21. | :32:26. | |
government is committed to ensuring most young people can do | :32:27. | :32:33. | |
apprenticeships. From next April, many schools will pave the | :32:34. | :32:38. | |
apprenticeship levy, and other cost. That is an additional cost of | :32:39. | :32:41. | |
?15,000. Will the Minister agreed to meet with me and another member and | :32:42. | :32:47. | |
concerned headteachers to discuss the impact of the levy on schools | :32:48. | :32:56. | |
and academies. I'm very happy to meet with the honourable lady but | :32:57. | :33:01. | |
the whole purpose of the levy is to change behaviours and ensure we | :33:02. | :33:04. | |
become an apprenticeship and skilled nation. If the schools have the | :33:05. | :33:08. | |
needs of their levy then not only will they not pay any levy but they | :33:09. | :33:17. | |
will get 10% on top. Small businesses often give the best | :33:18. | :33:20. | |
experience to an apprentice but lack the resources to support them. What | :33:21. | :33:26. | |
steps is the Minister taking to encourage small businesses to take | :33:27. | :33:31. | |
on apprentices? I know that the honourable friend is a champion of | :33:32. | :33:37. | |
small businesses in his constituency. We are doing huge | :33:38. | :33:41. | |
amounts to encourage small businesses to take on young | :33:42. | :33:45. | |
apprentices, huge financial incentives for the providers and the | :33:46. | :33:49. | |
businesses, small businesses have to pay no training cost at all if they | :33:50. | :33:53. | |
have 16-18 -year-olds. We have cut national insurance for | :33:54. | :34:00. | |
apprenticeships up to the age of 25. The scheme must be better publicised | :34:01. | :34:04. | |
in our high schools and primary schools to encourage those who don't | :34:05. | :34:08. | |
feel comfortable in academia to understand there are options | :34:09. | :34:10. | |
available to them. Could the Minister specified how the | :34:11. | :34:15. | |
Department plans to implement any such system in schools? As so often, | :34:16. | :34:20. | |
the honourable gentleman makes a the honourable gentleman makes a | :34:21. | :34:23. | |
good point. When I go around the country, again and again, | :34:24. | :34:27. | |
apprentices have not been encouraged by their schools to do this and we | :34:28. | :34:31. | |
are looking at how to ensure that careers encourage them. We are | :34:32. | :34:41. | |
investing ?90 million in careers, they have many advisers, getting | :34:42. | :34:52. | |
kids to do work experience. We are committed to tackling inequalities | :34:53. | :34:59. | |
so that all pupils can fulfil their potential. We welcome the | :35:00. | :35:06. | |
contribution, including the benefits of an academic curriculum. The | :35:07. | :35:20. | |
northern powerhouse challenge as well funded as the London challenge | :35:21. | :35:28. | |
was funded with the very welcome, for schools such as one outstanding | :35:29. | :35:34. | |
school in my constituency. What support will be available to schools | :35:35. | :35:38. | |
like that already doing their very best in very disadvantaged areas? | :35:39. | :35:48. | |
There is an achievement gap which is why in March 2016 the Chancellor | :35:49. | :35:56. | |
announced ?20 million of new funding to support a northern powerhouse | :35:57. | :36:07. | |
strategy. Old Trafford is the best performing in North England but one | :36:08. | :36:10. | |
of the worst funded authorities. I'm sure he can imagine the concern that | :36:11. | :36:15. | |
the draft funding formula produced last week would lead to all | :36:16. | :36:19. | |
secondary schools being worse off and the number of primary schools | :36:20. | :36:25. | |
being worse off. Can I ask him to look as a matter of urgency at the | :36:26. | :36:27. | |
nature of the funding formula to ensure fairness to the | :36:28. | :36:31. | |
which have been underfunded? They which have been underfunded? They | :36:32. | :36:42. | |
will see gains, some ?210 million, but in Trafford there is a loss of | :36:43. | :36:50. | |
0.4%. The current formula under funds primary is computed | :36:51. | :36:51. | |
secondaries. Under the proposed national funding | :36:52. | :37:05. | |
formula, the secondaries will lose but the primaries will game. The | :37:06. | :37:14. | |
education policy found that there are no better standards in local | :37:15. | :37:20. | |
authorities so why is expanding trust is key to driving up | :37:21. | :37:25. | |
standards? Is it because he is very well paid by an academy trust and is | :37:26. | :37:29. | |
there perchance any evidence? He is experienced in running a very | :37:30. | :37:35. | |
successful one. Sponsored academies do increase more rapidly. One of the | :37:36. | :37:48. | |
causes identified is the challenge of teacher supply. Does my | :37:49. | :37:51. | |
honourable friend agree with me that one way of improving that will be to | :37:52. | :37:58. | |
recruit more members from the former members of the Armed Forces into the | :37:59. | :38:02. | |
teaching profession? I do agree and we have a scheme that does just | :38:03. | :38:06. | |
that, and as the years go by it is recruiting increasing numbers, small | :38:07. | :38:11. | |
numbers but increasing numbers of highly qualified but experienced | :38:12. | :38:21. | |
ex-military personnel. Thank you, Mr Speaker, we've not permanently | :38:22. | :38:24. | |
closed any academies within three years of their conversion, but we've | :38:25. | :38:36. | |
re-brokered them. If no school has been closed within three years of | :38:37. | :38:40. | |
such conversion and now Academy closed solely as a result of a bad | :38:41. | :38:44. | |
Ofsted report and there is no reliable estimate of the cost or the | :38:45. | :38:50. | |
availability of alternate places and future demand and the real travel | :38:51. | :38:55. | |
alternative schools, how does the alternative schools, how does the | :38:56. | :38:58. | |
government justified reneging on their promise to the pupils and | :38:59. | :39:06. | |
parents to rescue an Academy in my constituency rather than close the | :39:07. | :39:14. | |
school? No decision has been taken yet on the future of this academy | :39:15. | :39:17. | |
but ministers are going to consider all options and the view of parents | :39:18. | :39:22. | |
in the community before reaching a final decision. They will ensure | :39:23. | :39:37. | |
that they get good access. Increasing this for pupils underpins | :39:38. | :39:42. | |
our commitment to making sure our country works for everyone and in | :39:43. | :39:46. | |
the pupil premium we are narrowing the gap between disadvantaged pupils | :39:47. | :39:49. | |
and their peers and indeed, this can be seen in the primary school in | :39:50. | :39:57. | |
Enfield which I want to congratulate for its excellent work on pupil | :39:58. | :40:07. | |
premium. Thank you for the response. On the response from my right | :40:08. | :40:13. | |
honourable friend for Harlow, given the school's link with local | :40:14. | :40:17. | |
employers, they have let their most vulnerable. Can I commend the | :40:18. | :40:21. | |
Secretary of State for the good example of the TEFL steps in to work | :40:22. | :40:24. | |
programme which is bucking the national trend. It is something I do | :40:25. | :40:41. | |
commend. We're working with it to strengthen links between employers | :40:42. | :40:52. | |
and schools when you get a close relationship, especially for those | :40:53. | :40:57. | |
with learning difficulties, it can make a great difference. There is a | :40:58. | :41:04. | |
serious problem here in terms of disadvantaged young people, clever | :41:05. | :41:09. | |
and bright at the age of 11, then lose them, they fail in secondary. | :41:10. | :41:17. | |
Is she further aware, though she is reluctant to answer the question, | :41:18. | :41:20. | |
how many young people from disadvantaged backgrounds are locked | :41:21. | :41:24. | |
into the further education system unable to get their GCSEs in maths | :41:25. | :41:25. | |
and English? When is she going to do and English? When is she going to do | :41:26. | :41:39. | |
something about it? We've seen the attainment gap getting lower between | :41:40. | :41:46. | |
disadvantaged young people and those who start off from better | :41:47. | :41:51. | |
backgrounds. We put resources into the system. Further education is one | :41:52. | :41:58. | |
of our key aims across the Parliament to make sure it delivers | :41:59. | :42:01. | |
the same gold standard. The House will know that the | :42:02. | :42:18. | |
Secretary of State failed to commit to building a school in this | :42:19. | :42:25. | |
Parliament. Today, the policy Institute have released evidence | :42:26. | :42:30. | |
showing you cannot future proof and 11 plus test. Does she agree with me | :42:31. | :42:32. | |
that selection at 11 will favour that selection at 11 will favour | :42:33. | :42:36. | |
families that can afford it and do nothing to improve the educational | :42:37. | :42:39. | |
outcomes of the most disadvantaged pupils? | :42:40. | :42:44. | |
I disagree. As usual, from the opposition, we have had criticism | :42:45. | :42:52. | |
but no alternative policies whatsoever, and a continued failure | :42:53. | :42:55. | |
by the opposition to set out whether it would close existing grammars. At | :42:56. | :43:00. | |
some stage, it would be fantastic to get clarity on Labour Party policy. | :43:01. | :43:04. | |
We want to see more good school places for children, particularly | :43:05. | :43:09. | |
disadvantaged children, and we know the disadvantaged children on free | :43:10. | :43:15. | |
school meals who get into grammar schools see the attainment gap | :43:16. | :43:19. | |
closed by the time they leave. The new national curriculum that came | :43:20. | :43:23. | |
into force in September 2014 expects every pupil to know the | :43:24. | :43:27. | |
multiplication tables to 12 times 12 by the end of year four. We have | :43:28. | :43:33. | |
strengthened our primary maths assessment to prioritise fluency in | :43:34. | :43:36. | |
written calculation and we have removed the use of calculators from | :43:37. | :43:40. | |
key stage two tests. We have not made an assessment of the proportion | :43:41. | :43:43. | |
of children in Northamptonshire or England who know the multiplication | :43:44. | :43:48. | |
tables by heart, but we plan to intend a multiplication tables check | :43:49. | :43:50. | |
for primary school pupils in England to ensure that every child leaves | :43:51. | :43:54. | |
primary school fluent in that times tables up to and including 12 times | :43:55. | :44:01. | |
12. Which my friend madrasas is 144. We are all much better informed! | :44:02. | :44:08. | |
Would my honourable friend agree that learning your times tables is | :44:09. | :44:11. | |
essential for success and maths, and what is the government's official | :44:12. | :44:15. | |
view to the best way in which times tables should be taught and learnt? | :44:16. | :44:20. | |
We don't have an official way of how this is taught, but we do expect | :44:21. | :44:23. | |
every child to know their tables. The reason it is until year four is | :44:24. | :44:29. | |
so that children can recall the times tables automatically so that | :44:30. | :44:32. | |
they can then tackle long multiplication and long division. We | :44:33. | :44:39. | |
want all pupils to be healthy and active and have the opportunity to | :44:40. | :44:43. | |
engage in sport and physical activity. That is why PE remains a | :44:44. | :44:48. | |
compulsory subject at all four key stages in the national curriculum | :44:49. | :44:52. | |
and since 2013, we have given ?600 million to primary schools to | :44:53. | :44:57. | |
include the quality of PE provision, with that doubling from 2017. Given | :44:58. | :45:04. | |
the urgent need to tackle child obesity and physical inactivity, can | :45:05. | :45:07. | |
my right honourable friend tell the House what steps he is taking to | :45:08. | :45:12. | |
work with organisations such as the UK active outdoor industry | :45:13. | :45:15. | |
Association as well as local organisations like active Cheshire | :45:16. | :45:18. | |
to follow the example of the school where my daughter goes to take | :45:19. | :45:24. | |
forward more daily initiatives? As a fellow Cheshire MP, I am aware of | :45:25. | :45:27. | |
the excellent work done by local schools and local groups in | :45:28. | :45:34. | |
partnerships. We welcome initiatives such as the daily mile. They help | :45:35. | :45:38. | |
teachers have the autonomy to make good decisions on behalf of their | :45:39. | :45:42. | |
pupils to have an array of excellent initiatives, and we continue to | :45:43. | :45:48. | |
promote those. The minister is too modest in declining to take the | :45:49. | :45:52. | |
opportunity to say that he has himself over many years led by | :45:53. | :45:55. | |
example to his repeated and impressive marathon running, with | :45:56. | :45:58. | |
which the whole House by now should be familiar. Physical activities are | :45:59. | :46:05. | |
important to equip the next generation with the skills to | :46:06. | :46:07. | |
contend with both their physical health and the mental health. But | :46:08. | :46:12. | |
alone, it will not content with our nation's obesity crisis. We know | :46:13. | :46:15. | |
from the child measurement figures how challenging this is for our | :46:16. | :46:21. | |
country. Will his government be bringing forward compulsory PSHE so | :46:22. | :46:24. | |
we can equip the next generation with the knowledge and skills to | :46:25. | :46:27. | |
know what they should be eating as well as what physical activities | :46:28. | :46:32. | |
they should be doing? I have already told the House that PE is compulsory | :46:33. | :46:36. | |
at all four key stages. The Secretary of State has set out the | :46:37. | :46:40. | |
need to improve the access and quality of PSHE, and that is | :46:41. | :46:45. | |
something we are looking forward to. I will be taking part in the London | :46:46. | :46:49. | |
Marathon again next year to continue my efforts to lead by example. The | :46:50. | :46:53. | |
honourable gentleman is genuinely a hero! Topical questions, Mr Nigel | :46:54. | :47:04. | |
Huddlestone. If I can just wish everybody a happy Christmas in the | :47:05. | :47:09. | |
House as well. Mr Speaker, the latest stab figures show that there | :47:10. | :47:15. | |
are near Ely 1.8 million -- there are nearly 1.8 million children | :47:16. | :47:18. | |
being taught in outstanding schools than in 2010. Our consultation has | :47:19. | :47:22. | |
ended and we look forward to responding to that in due course. In | :47:23. | :47:27. | |
the past few weeks, we have announced ?114 million for the | :47:28. | :47:30. | |
strategic school improvement fund and have published the next age of | :47:31. | :47:34. | |
consultation on our national fairer funding formula for schools across | :47:35. | :47:39. | |
England, which will finally bring an end to the historic postcode lottery | :47:40. | :47:43. | |
of school funding. I also saw the excellent teacher exchange programme | :47:44. | :47:47. | |
in Shanghai, China, earlier this month, as well as visiting many | :47:48. | :47:52. | |
great schools in our own country. Team GB gave an incredible | :47:53. | :47:56. | |
performance that this year's Rio Olympic Games, bringing home 67 | :47:57. | :48:00. | |
medals. One third of those medal winners went to private schools | :48:01. | :48:04. | |
compared to 7% of the population as a whole. What else is the government | :48:05. | :48:09. | |
doing to encourage greater participation in sport in our state | :48:10. | :48:16. | |
schools? Since 2013, we have provided over ?600 million to | :48:17. | :48:19. | |
primary schools through the primary PE and sport premium, which is | :48:20. | :48:26. | |
making a difference. In independent research, schools reported an 84% | :48:27. | :48:32. | |
increase in participation in extracurricular activities. We know | :48:33. | :48:35. | |
there is more to do, and that is why we have doubled a premium to ?320 | :48:36. | :48:42. | |
million a year from autumn 2017. I would also like to wish the | :48:43. | :48:45. | |
Secretary of State a Merry Christmas and all the members of the House, | :48:46. | :48:49. | |
but it ain't going to be a Merry Christmas for our schools. The | :48:50. | :48:53. | |
recent government consultation says there will be a floor on schools | :48:54. | :48:56. | |
funding so that no school would lose more than 3% of their funding per | :48:57. | :49:01. | |
pupil as a result of changes to the funding formula. Some schools face | :49:02. | :49:08. | |
to severe cuts to manage. But only has the National Audit Office show | :49:09. | :49:12. | |
that schools are facing funding cuts of 8% per pupil, they have | :49:13. | :49:15. | |
criticised her department for failing to make the scale of the | :49:16. | :49:19. | |
coming cuts clear. The Secretary of State has two choices. Order. I am | :49:20. | :49:25. | |
sorry. If we are going to have a right for the opposition front bench | :49:26. | :49:29. | |
to come in on topical is, and I make this clear with immediate effect, it | :49:30. | :49:33. | |
must be done briefly, otherwise it is completely absorbing the time for | :49:34. | :49:37. | |
backbenchers. A single sentence from the honourable lady will suffice. | :49:38. | :49:42. | |
Sorry, Mr Speaker. Will she cut the funding in 2020 or will she issue | :49:43. | :49:47. | |
guidance to schools on what those cuts will be? We are consulting on | :49:48. | :49:53. | |
proposals for a new national funding for here. Everybody accepts the | :49:54. | :49:58. | |
current system is unfair, transparent and out of date and it | :49:59. | :50:02. | |
doesn't support our aspiration for all children to reach their | :50:03. | :50:07. | |
potential to succeed in adult life. There is little or no justification | :50:08. | :50:11. | |
for the differences that local schools get at the moment. The | :50:12. | :50:14. | |
consultation is now under way. I have no doubt that honourable | :50:15. | :50:17. | |
members across the House will want to respond. The former Chancellor | :50:18. | :50:25. | |
was the most recent senior Conservative to say that the Prime | :50:26. | :50:28. | |
Minister's plans to include international students in migration | :50:29. | :50:32. | |
figures were not sensible. Will the Secretary of State join us and | :50:33. | :50:34. | |
commit to doing everything she can to reverse this foolish policy and | :50:35. | :50:38. | |
ensure that students are removed from the migration statistics? We | :50:39. | :50:45. | |
value the significant contribution that international students make to | :50:46. | :50:49. | |
our universities. We have no plans to introduce a cap on and take. As | :50:50. | :50:53. | |
the Secretary of State recently announced, we will shortly be | :50:54. | :50:57. | |
seeking views on the study immigration root of all parties | :50:58. | :50:59. | |
including the opposition should ensure their point of view is heard. | :51:00. | :51:04. | |
Getting it right early on is crucially important for life | :51:05. | :51:10. | |
chances. Corby provides flagship nursery provision and early | :51:11. | :51:14. | |
intervention provision which local families appreciate and value. With | :51:15. | :51:20. | |
the minister be willing to visit to discuss how the funding reforms can | :51:21. | :51:23. | |
best support this provision going forward? We all know that maintained | :51:24. | :51:31. | |
nursery schools are a small but important part of the early years | :51:32. | :51:34. | |
sector, providing high quality child care and education, often in | :51:35. | :51:39. | |
disadvantaged areas. They have a potentially important role in | :51:40. | :51:42. | |
shaping best practice with other providers in their area, and I would | :51:43. | :51:46. | |
be happy to meet my honourable friend and other representatives to | :51:47. | :51:50. | |
discuss this further. Does that Secretary of State acknowledge that | :51:51. | :51:53. | |
many schools including the primary school in the most deprived part of | :51:54. | :51:58. | |
my constituency which contacted me on Wednesday are struggling | :51:59. | :52:00. | |
financially as a result of amongst other things, the overhead is being | :52:01. | :52:04. | |
heaped on them. It is children with special educational needs who are | :52:05. | :52:07. | |
likely to suffer most from the financial squeeze. In fact, under | :52:08. | :52:14. | |
the national funding formula that we announced last week to stop the | :52:15. | :52:18. | |
consultation on in relation to high needs, there will be no local areas | :52:19. | :52:23. | |
losing. And we will be able to do not only that, but also ensure that | :52:24. | :52:26. | |
those areas that need to gain who have been underfunded will be able | :52:27. | :52:32. | |
to gain up to 3% over 2018-19 and 2019-20. Following the publication | :52:33. | :52:41. | |
of the key stage two results on Thursday, the national average pass | :52:42. | :52:47. | |
rate was 54%. The Lancashire pass rate was 54%, but the pass rate in | :52:48. | :52:51. | |
my constituency was 47%. What steps is this Parliament taking towards | :52:52. | :52:59. | |
best practice for schools like those in my constituency and what can she | :53:00. | :53:02. | |
do to help schools that are underperforming? I share my | :53:03. | :53:07. | |
honourable friend's concern. We want all schools to use evidence -based | :53:08. | :53:13. | |
teaching and to help spread effective practice. We have | :53:14. | :53:17. | |
established a national network of teaching schools as well as school | :53:18. | :53:22. | |
partnerships led by schools that excel in the teaching of maths, | :53:23. | :53:25. | |
phonics and science. International students are vital to an economy and | :53:26. | :53:31. | |
contribute ?7 billion to universities in the UK. Can the | :53:32. | :53:34. | |
Secretary of State confirm whether or not the government plans to use | :53:35. | :53:36. | |
the new teaching and excellence framework to link student visas to | :53:37. | :53:41. | |
the quality of an institution as a means of cutting immigration? No | :53:42. | :53:48. | |
decision has been taken as to the best way to differentiate in order | :53:49. | :53:54. | |
to allow our best institutions to continue to attract international | :53:55. | :53:57. | |
students at this stage. The Home Secretary has indicated that she | :53:58. | :54:01. | |
will be starting a consultation in the new year. All parties are | :54:02. | :54:07. | |
encouraged to contribute to that. Recognising the mental health | :54:08. | :54:09. | |
challenges faced by an increasing number of young people, can my right | :54:10. | :54:12. | |
honourable friend to the House what steps she is taking to work with | :54:13. | :54:17. | |
bodies such as young minds and the NSPCC to help young people and their | :54:18. | :54:21. | |
parents tackle self harming, which is blighting the lives of too many | :54:22. | :54:27. | |
children? Every child and young person should be able to enjoy good | :54:28. | :54:32. | |
mental health and well-being. My honourable friend is right to raise | :54:33. | :54:37. | |
serious concerns about self harm. We are working with the Department of | :54:38. | :54:40. | |
Health to tackle it by funding guidance for schools on teaching | :54:41. | :54:45. | |
about self-harm and pointing parents towards the Mind portal and the | :54:46. | :54:51. | |
invaluable NSPCC ChildLine, but we know there is more to do. The 80 | :54:52. | :54:56. | |
sector in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland supported SNP | :54:57. | :55:02. | |
amendments to the higher education Bill on UK research and innovation. | :55:03. | :55:05. | |
Can the Secretary of State tell us if she plans to look at this issue | :55:06. | :55:09. | |
again, or is she happy to ignore the HE voices within the devolved | :55:10. | :55:16. | |
nations? The honourable gentleman will have seen the amendment | :55:17. | :55:19. | |
ensuring that there will be at least one member of the UK border with | :55:20. | :55:24. | |
experience of the excellent research that goes on in at least one of our | :55:25. | :55:28. | |
devolved administrations. Universities like Sunderland do a | :55:29. | :55:33. | |
fantastic job supporting part-time and mature students into higher | :55:34. | :55:36. | |
education. Ministers claim to support this, so why in the Autumn | :55:37. | :55:40. | |
Statement was funding for widening participation cut by 50%? The | :55:41. | :55:46. | |
honourable lady will be encouraged to see that spending on access | :55:47. | :55:53. | |
agreements will increase to over ?800 million in the next financial | :55:54. | :55:59. | |
year, up from ?400 million when this last coalition government came into | :56:00. | :56:02. | |
office, almost doubling the amount being spent on this important area. | :56:03. | :56:08. | |
The Secretary of State will remember the historic and ongoing problems | :56:09. | :56:11. | |
with flooding in Tipton St John primary school. Will she ever | :56:12. | :56:16. | |
announce an early Christmas present for the people of Tipton St John by | :56:17. | :56:20. | |
announcing that her department is going to contribute to the funding | :56:21. | :56:26. | |
solution to relocate the school to Ottery St Mary? Following his | :56:27. | :56:29. | |
meeting on the top of October with my right honourable friend the | :56:30. | :56:32. | |
Secretary of State and representatives from the county to | :56:33. | :56:37. | |
consider plans to relocate the school, a feasibility study was | :56:38. | :56:41. | |
submitted to the educational funding agency. Officials have reviewed the | :56:42. | :56:45. | |
report and have been in dialogue with Devon County Council to address | :56:46. | :56:49. | |
outstanding issues. Once those are resolved, a decision can be taken | :56:50. | :56:52. | |
about whether a central funding contribution can be made and whether | :56:53. | :56:53. | |
he will have a Christmas present. What contingency plans does the | :56:54. | :57:10. | |
Minister has showed a source of recruitment for EU teachers | :57:11. | :57:15. | |
diminish. As I said earlier the government welcomes the contribution | :57:16. | :57:20. | |
EU students and international students make to higher education | :57:21. | :57:23. | |
institutions and there is no plan to introduce a cap on that number. We | :57:24. | :57:31. | |
continue to welcome EU students. Superb schools across my | :57:32. | :57:35. | |
constituency based a double financial whammy of being both rural | :57:36. | :57:38. | |
and small. Under new funding formula is only eight schools will get | :57:39. | :57:44. | |
another blip. Could the minister look again at school is not hitting | :57:45. | :57:49. | |
the traditional markers of deprivation? -- get an uplift. We | :57:50. | :57:55. | |
have a consultation on introducing a national funding formula. We have | :57:56. | :57:58. | |
tried to make sure there are factors affecting schools in more remote | :57:59. | :58:04. | |
locations but also where they have higher cost bases under the | :58:05. | :58:07. | |
additional costs allowance to reflect that as well. This is a | :58:08. | :58:13. | |
consultation and I'm sure she will want to have input into this. Last | :58:14. | :58:19. | |
Tuesday was in 2000 people filled the Royal concert Hall in Nottingham | :58:20. | :58:22. | |
to hear hundreds of schoolchildren singing and playing together in the | :58:23. | :58:28. | |
Nottingham music service Christmas in the city concert. The opportunity | :58:29. | :58:33. | |
to learn to play music is very important in building confidence and | :58:34. | :58:37. | |
enjoyment of school and will she visit Nottingham music service to | :58:38. | :58:40. | |
hear more of the wonderful work but they are doing in our city schools | :58:41. | :58:45. | |
were more than 8000 students are learning to play a musical | :58:46. | :58:49. | |
instrument? ?300 million has been announced for music and the arts. I | :58:50. | :58:56. | |
recognise how important music is and I hope those children will get the | :58:57. | :59:00. | |
benefit of the ongoing investment this government is now putting in. | :59:01. | :59:11. | |
Willmore pupils be able to take up places in grammar schools? Once we | :59:12. | :59:14. | |
have got through the response to consultation and had the chance to | :59:15. | :59:17. | |
change the law hopefully preventing grammar schools from being opened, I | :59:18. | :59:21. | |
hope we will be able to make progress on this. And finally, Fiona | :59:22. | :59:30. | |
McTaggart. Headteachers will be grateful to the Minister for meeting | :59:31. | :59:36. | |
with them to discuss teacher shortages but unfortunately, I have | :59:37. | :59:39. | |
reminded him twice since then about the fact that they have not received | :59:40. | :59:43. | |
the letter he promised at that meeting. Can I expect that before | :59:44. | :59:49. | |
Christmas? I will do my utmost to ensure they receive a letter and I | :59:50. | :59:53. | |
enjoyed reading them, they raised important points, but we are | :59:54. | :59:58. | |
ensuring that we are filling teacher training places and there are more | :59:59. | :00:04. | |
teachers now in the system than last year. Statement. The Prime | :00:05. | :00:05. |