Damian Hinds

30 Aug 2024 · Department for Education

Music and Dance Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she plans to amend the budget of the Music and Dance Scheme after January 2025.

30 Aug 2024 · Treasury

Private Education: VAT

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether families in receipt of funding for attending a specialist school through the Music and Dance Scheme will be exempt from paying VAT on the remainder of those fees.

30 Aug 2024 · Treasury

Performing Arts: VAT

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether (a) music schools, (b) dance schools and (c) Centres for Advanced Training will be exempt from VAT after January 2025.

30 Aug 2024 · Department for Education

Children: Gender Dysphoria

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when her Department plans to publish its response to the consultation entitled Guidance for Schools and Colleges: Gender Questioning Children which closed on 12 March 2024

30 Aug 2024 · Department for Education

Children: Gender Dysphoria

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many submissions her Department received to the consultation entitled Gender questioning children: draft schools and colleges guidance, open from 19 December 2023 to 12 March 2024.

30 Aug 2024 · Department for Education

Schools: Pay

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an estimate of the proportion of schools able to fully cover the incremental costs of the recommended pay increase using the funding announced.

30 Aug 2024 · Department for Education

Teachers: Workplace Pensions

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of trends in the levels of independent-sector schools (a) consulting with staff on the teachers’ pension scheme, (b) leaving the teachers’ pension scheme and (c) pursuing phased wit

30 Aug 2024 · Department for Education

Teachers: Workplace Pensions

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of trends in the levels of in-service teachers opting out of the teachers’ pension scheme.

30 Aug 2024 · Treasury

Private Education: Taxation

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she has carried out an equality impact assessment of proposed tax changes on independent schools.

29 Jul 2024 · Department for Education

Pre-school Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what her policy is on the future of the Early Years Stronger Practice Hubs programme.

26 Jul 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Hospitals: Hampshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what his planned timetable is for completion of the new Basingstoke and North Hampshire hospital.

25 Jul 2024 · Department for Education

Primary Education: Nurseries

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of the proposed additional nursery places in primary schools will be (a) year-round and (b) term-time only.

25 Jul 2024 · Department for Education

Childcare

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent discussions she has had with Cabinet colleagues on potential workforce participation effects of the availability of (a) year-round and (b) term-time only childcare provision.

25 Jul 2024 · Department for Education

Schools: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has set aside capital funding for the provision of potential additional places in state schools in the event they are required as a result of pupils moving from the independent sector to the state s

25 Jul 2024 · Department for Education

Department for Education: Public Expenditure

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what underspends are projected in (a) her Department and (b) each of its arms length bodies in (i) this financial year and (ii) the Spending Review period.

25 Jul 2024 · Department for Education

Further Education: Students

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the (a) capacity and (b) number of students on roll was for 16 to 19 education in (i) state-funded (A) sixth-forms and (B) colleges and (ii) independent schools in each parliamentary constituency in the mo

25 Jul 2024 · Department for Education

Pupil Numbers

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the (a) capacity and (b) number of pupils on roll was in (i) state-funded and (ii) independent schools at each phase of (A) primary education and (B) secondary education to the end of key stage four in eac

25 Jul 2024 · Treasury

Private Education: VAT

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether independent English Language schools will be exempt from VAT.

25 Jul 2024 · Treasury

Private Education: VAT

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of imposing 20% VAT on school fees on exports.

25 Jul 2024 · Treasury

Private Education: Fees and Charges

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate she has made of the price elasticity of demand for independent-sector education following a one-off increase in price of 20% (a) in the immediate term and (b) over time for (i) individual phases of edu

22 Jul 2024 · Treasury

Special Educational Needs

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether children who have an Education, Health and Care plan will be exempt from VAT on school fees.

22 Jul 2024 · Department for Education

Special Educational Needs

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of pupils at (a) primary, (b) secondary pre-16 and (c) post-16 independent schools (i) have an Education Health and Care plan and have their school fees paid for in full by their lo

22 Jul 2024 · Department for Education

Curriculum

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department has received representations on the impact on the workloads of (a) teachers and (b) school leaders of significant changes to the curriculum.

22 Jul 2024 · Department for Education

Private Education: Religion

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what her most recent estimate is of the number of pupils on roll in independent schools of a religious character of the (a) Anglican, (b) Roman Catholic, (c) other Christian, (d) Jewish, (e) Muslim, (f) Hindu,

22 Jul 2024 · Department for Education

Skills England

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, which responsibilities of (a) the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education and (b) other bodies she plans to transfer to the proposed new body, Skills England.

22 Jul 2024 · Department for Education

Skills England: Operating Costs

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the annual running costs of the proposed new body, Skills England.

22 Jul 2024 · Department for Education

Skills England: Costs

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the cost of (a) creating Skills England and (b) transferring responsibilities to that body from the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education.

22 Jul 2024 · Department for Education

Students: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what her planned timetable is for reviewing the way bursaries are allocated and the structure of retention payments.

22 Jul 2024 · Department for Education

Teachers: Recruitment

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether the targeted increase of 6,500 more teachers recruited to teach key subjects means a net increase in the full-time equivalent number of teachers teaching those subjects, in post in secondary schools; wh

22 Jul 2024 · Department for Education

Assessments and Curriculum: Reviews

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how the Curriculum and Assessment Review panel chaired by Professor Becky Francis will be constituted.