Damian Hinds

4 Oct 2024 · Department for Education

Teachers: Recruitment

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will publish the pupil number projections by phase of education for her plan to recruit 6,500 expert specialist teachers.

4 Oct 2024 · Department for Education

Teachers: Recruitment

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of the new 6,500 teachers her Department expects to have recruited in each of the next five years.

4 Oct 2024 · Department for Education

Free School Meals

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the number of children who will be eligible for free school meals in (a) 2024-25 and (b) 2025-26.

4 Oct 2024 · Department for Education

Holiday Activities and Food Programme: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of maintaining real-terms levels of funding for the Holiday Activities and Food programme in the (a) 2024-25 and (b) 2025-26 financial years.

4 Oct 2024 · Department for Education

Breakfast Clubs: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what her Department's projected spending is on breakfast club programmes for secondary schools in (a) 2024-25 and (b) 2025-26.

4 Oct 2024 · Department for Education

Breakfast Clubs: Expenditure

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what her Department’s spending on breakfast club programmes was for (a) primary schools, (b) secondary schools and (c) in total in 2023-24.

4 Oct 2024 · Department for Education

Breakfast Clubs: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her planned spending on the expansion of school breakfast clubs is contingent on the amount of revenue raised from fiscal measures targeted on people with non-domiciled status.

4 Oct 2024 · Ministry of Defence

Armed Forces: Private Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what representations he has received on the potential impact of applying VAT to independent school fees on the families of military service personnel.

4 Oct 2024 · Ministry of Defence

Armed Forces: Private Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many children of military service personnel are educated in independent schools under the Continuity of Education Allowance programme, by region.

4 Oct 2024 · Treasury

Private Education: VAT

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate her Department has made of the annual cost to HM Revenue and Customs of reimbursing VAT to local councils for pupils with education, health and care (EHC) plans.

4 Oct 2024 · Treasury

Private Education: VAT

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to paragraph 4.7 of her Department's Technical Note entitled Applying VAT to Private School Fees and Removing the Business Rates Charitable Rates Relief for Private Schools, published in July 2024, on

4 Oct 2024 · Treasury

Private Education: VAT

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she has received legal advice on the compatibility of plans to charge VAT on independent school fees with Articles (a) 2 and (b) 14 of the European Convention on Human Rights.

4 Oct 2024 · Department for Education

Teachers: Recruitment

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 30 July 2024 to Question 887 on Teachers: Recruitment, whether the 6,500 target for new expert teachers relates only to new entrants to the profession.

4 Oct 2024 · Department for Education

Teachers: Recruitment

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 30 July 2024 to Question 887 on Teachers: Recruitment, what her deadline is for achieving the 6,500 target for new expert teachers.

4 Oct 2024 · Department for Education

Teachers: Recruitment

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 30 July 2024 to Question 887 on Teachers: Recruitment, which subjects are included in the 6,500 target for new expert teachers.

4 Oct 2024 · Department for Education

Teachers: Recruitment

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, 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.

4 Oct 2024 · Department for Education

Teachers

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, 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.

4 Oct 2024 · Department for Education

Breakfast Clubs: Disadvantaged

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an estimate of the proportion of pupils in bands A-F of the Income Deprivation Affecting Children Index that attend schools (a) eligible for and (b) participating in the national school breakfa

4 Oct 2024 · Department for Education

Breakfast Clubs: Disadvantaged

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, 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

4 Oct 2024 · Department for Education

Children: Food

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, 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.

4 Oct 2024 · Department for Education

Free School Meals: Expenditure

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the total amount of public funding for free school meals in (a) 2009-10 and (b) 2023-24.

4 Oct 2024 · Department for Education

Breakfast Clubs: Expenditure

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the total amount of public funding for school breakfast clubs in (a) 2009-10 and (b) 2023-24

4 Oct 2024 · Department for Education

Breakfast Clubs

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, 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

4 Oct 2024 · Department for Education

Schools: Admissions

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, to which English parliamentary constituencies each Secondary Planning Area relates.

4 Oct 2024 · Treasury

Private Education: Taxation

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 9 September 2024 to Question 2809 on Private Education: Taxation, whether the tax information and impact note will include an assessment of the potential impact of this policy on different

4 Oct 2024 · Treasury

Private Education: Taxation

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much revenue to the Exchequer was raised from (a) VAT, (b) business rates, (c) employer contributions to the teachers' pension scheme and (d) any other source paid by the independent school sector in the 2023-24

11 Sep 2024 · Treasury

Private Education: Fees and Charges

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the answer of 9 September 2024 to Question 4047 on Private Education: Fees and Charges, whether the Tax Information and Impact Note will include a (a) reasonable worst case scenario and (b) central plann

11 Sep 2024 · Treasury

Private Education: Fees and Charges

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the answer of 9 September 2024 to Question 4047 on Private Education: Fees and Charges, whether the Tax Information and Impact Note will include estimated effects (a) at January 2025, (b) at September 20

11 Sep 2024 · Treasury

Private Education: Fees and Charges

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the answer of 9 September 2024 to Question 4047 on Private Education: Fees and Charges, whether the Tax Information and Impact Note will differentiate between (a) mainstream and special provision and (b)

11 Sep 2024 · Treasury

Private Education: Fees and Charges

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the answer of 9 September 2024 to Question 4047 on Private Education: Fees and Charges, whether she plans to conduct primary research for the Tax Information and Impact Note; and which secondary sources