Written questions

670 written questions tabled, most recent first.

14 Oct 2024 · Treasury

Private Education: VAT

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether summer schools which are operated by (a) an independent school on its own site and (b) a third party on an independent school site will be liable for VAT; and whether the liability is changed if a significan

14 Oct 2024 · Treasury

Private Education: VAT

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 2 August 2024 to Question 1651 on Private Education: VAT, whether independent Welsh language schools will be exempt from VAT.

10 Oct 2024 · Department for Education

Schools: Admissions

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate her Department has made of which secondary planning areas will have a ratio of Year 7 pupil numbers forecast to estimated capacity of (a) greater than one, (b) one, (c) at or above 0.97 and below

10 Oct 2024 · Department for Education

Schools: Admissions

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate her Department has made of which secondary planning areas will have a ratio of pupil numbers forecast to estimated capacity of (a) greater than one, (b) one, (c) at or above 0.97 and below one and

10 Oct 2024 · Department for Education

Schools: Admissions

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate her Department has made of which primary planning areas will have a ratio of pupil numbers forecast to estimated capacity of (a) greater than one, (b) one, (c) at or above 0.97 and below one and (

7 Oct 2024 · Department for Education

Free School Meals

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she plans to change the eligibility criteria for free school meals.

7 Oct 2024 · Department for Education

Breakfast Clubs: Secondary Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she plans to change the eligibility criteria for funding for secondary school breakfast clubs.

4 Oct 2024 · Department for Education

Private Education: Staff

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the number of people employed in independent schools (a) as teachers and (b) in other roles.

4 Oct 2024 · Department for Education

Teachers: Workplace Pensions

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the projected revenue to the teachers' pension scheme from independent schools’ employers’ contributions in (a) 2024-25 and (b) 2025-26.

4 Oct 2024 · Department for Education

Teachers: Workplace Pensions

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the revenue to the teachers’ pension scheme from independent schools’ employers’ contributions as of (a) the most recent date for which data are available and (b) October 2021.

4 Oct 2024 · Department for Education

Private Education: Teachers

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the proportion of independent school teachers who are in the teachers' pension scheme as of (i) the most recent date for which data are available and (ii) October 2021.

4 Oct 2024 · Department for Education

Private Education: Teachers

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the proportion of independent schools that are (a) in the teachers' pension scheme and (b) not in phased withdrawal as of (i) the most recent date for which data are available and

4 Oct 2024 · Department for Education

Private Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many independent schools (a) opened and (b) closed in each year from the earliest year for which data are available.

4 Oct 2024 · Department for Education

Teachers: Pay

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what her policy is on the 2024-25 pay award for sixth form colleges that are not academies.

4 Oct 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Mental Health Services: Schools and Further Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the NHS England web page entitled Mental health support in schools and colleges, what his policy is on the (a) number and (b) types of regions that will be covered by the roll-out

4 Oct 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Mental Health Services: Schools and Further Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the NHS England web page entitled Mental health support in schools and colleges, what the roll-out schedule is for mental health support teams.

4 Oct 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Mental Health Services: Schools

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportions of schools at each stage of education are served by Mental Health Support Teams.

4 Oct 2024 · Department for Education

Special Educational Needs: Breakfast Clubs

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what her policy is on funding support for breakfast clubs at special schools.

4 Oct 2024 · Department for Education

Schools: Statistics

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what her planned timetable is for publishing results from the school census data collections of (a) 3 October 2024 and (b) 16 January 2025.

4 Oct 2024 · Treasury

Private Education: VAT

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether it is her policy that independent schools part-funded by overseas governments will be exempt from paying VAT.

4 Oct 2024 · Treasury

Private Education: Business Rates and VAT

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether it is her policy that bi-lingual schools will be exempt for paying (a) VAT and (b) business rates.

4 Oct 2024 · Treasury

Private Education: VAT

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what criteria her Department plans to use to classify schools as English language schools for the purposes of determining an exemption from VAT.

4 Oct 2024 · Treasury

Private Education: VAT

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether charged-for education provided in (a) church premises and (b) other dual-use locations that are charitably exempt will be liable for (i) VAT and (ii) business rates.

4 Oct 2024 · Department for Education

Schools: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she plans to amend the revenue spending budget for the Department for Education based on actual full-time-equivalent pupil numbers in the (a) 2024-25 and (b) 2025-26 financial year.

4 Oct 2024 · Department for Education

Schools: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she plans to amend the capital spending budget for the Department for Education based on actual full-time-equivalent pupil numbers in the (a) 2024-25 and (b) 2025-26 financial year.

4 Oct 2024 · Department for Education

Schools: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, on what pupil number projections the (a) resource and (b) capital spending budgets for the Department for Education for (i) this and (ii) next year are based.

4 Oct 2024 · Treasury

Further Education: VAT

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether health and social care charges for students at special schools and colleges will be exempt from VAT.

4 Oct 2024 · Treasury

Further Education: VAT

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether students at post 16 special colleges who have an Education, Health and Care plan will be exempt from VAT on college fees.

4 Oct 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Mental Health Services: Schools

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how his plans for dedicated mental health professionals’ support for secondary schools relate to plans for mental health support teams for schools set out in the Green Paper for Transforming childr

4 Oct 2024 · Department for Education

Teachers: Recruitment

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will publish a breakdown by (a) region and (b) phase of education for the 6,500 expert specialist teachers.

Source: official written-questions record.