Jo White MP: written questions
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Written questions
Financial Services: EducationDepartment for EducationTabled 28 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 11429More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to ensure all schools teach financial literacy.
Answer: I refer my hon. Friend, the Member for Basstettlaw to the answer of 14 October 2024 to question 7255.
Answered 5 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordAdult Education: FinanceDepartment for EducationTabled 28 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 11394More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the total underspends for the non-devolved adult education budget were in England in each year since 2018-19.
Answer: The budget and the actual spending of the Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA) element of the Adult Education Budget from 2018/19 to 2023/24 financial year is set out in the table below. Funding to providers is allocated on an academic year and unde...
Answered 5 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordCompulsorily Detained Psychiatric Patients: Social Security BenefitsDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 4 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 6885More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department plans to review payments of benefits to people serving full life terms in secure psychiatric units.
Answer: Where a court has decided that someone has committed a criminal offence but that they should say be sent to hospital rather than receiving a custodial sentence in prison, the length of their stay is determined by their recovery and the extent to which the...
Answered 14 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordPrisoners' Release: Foreign NationalsMinistry of JusticeTabled 10 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 5220More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many of the prisoners released under the early release scheme (a) are foreign nationals and (b) will be deported.
Answer: We are unable to provide the requested prisoner release figures at this time, as they form a subset of prisoner releases data scheduled for future publication. Numbers of custodial releases for the period covering July 2024 to September 2024 will be publi...
Answered 18 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordPrisoners' Release: Foreign NationalsHome OfficeTabled 10 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 5200More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of foreign nationals who receive a custodial prison sentence are deported on completion of their sentence.
Answer: The Home Office regularly publishes statistics on the returns of foreign national offenders by nationality and year. These returns are published in the Returns Detailed Datasets, Year Ending June 2024, which are available at: Immigration system statistics...
Answered 17 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordApprenticeship LevyTreasuryTabled 4 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 4292More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will raise apprenticeship levy funding.
Answer: The Apprenticeship Levy (AL) is currently paid by large employers, charged at a rate of 0.5% on an employer’s annual pay bill of over £3 million. The annual apprenticeship budget is then set by HMT, which funds training and assessment costs for apprentice...
Answered 10 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordHome EducationDepartment for EducationTabled 3 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 900341More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to identify children who are educated outside school.
Answer: The department is committed to giving every child the best start in life, regardless of where and how they are educated. We cannot ignore the rising numbers of home-educated children and official data which shows that growing numbers of children have been...
Answered 9 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordTeachers: TrainingDepartment for EducationTabled 25 Jul 2024AnsweredUIN 1850More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what her planned timetable is for issuing contracts to the providers who have been selected to deliver the pilot teacher degree apprenticeships.
Answer: In early 2024, the department invited applications from initial teacher training (ITT) providers and degree-awarding institutions to participate in the Teacher Degree Apprenticeship (TDA) funding pilot in secondary mathematics. The department assessed all...
Answered 1 Aug 2024
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