Abtisam Mohamed MP: written questions
4 Jul 2024–3 Jul 2025
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Written questions
Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act 2023Department for EducationTabled 22 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 47006More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 8 April 2025 to Question 42191 on University of Sussex: Disciplinary Proceedings and with reference to her oral statement of 15 January 2025 on Higher Education Regulatory Approach, Of
Answer: On Monday 28 April, my right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Education signed commencement regulations for the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act 2023. These regulations commence the following provisions in the Act from 1 August 2025:Duties ...
Answered 2 May 2025
Original Parliament recordPupils: AttendanceDepartment for EducationTabled 4 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 35629More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of changes to the School Attendance Order process in the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill on local authority staff time.
Answer: The department is legislating through the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill to make School Attendance Orders a more efficient remedy to ensure that children are in receipt of suitable education. This includes making it an offence for parents to withdr...
Answered 12 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordPupils: AttendanceDepartment for EducationTabled 27 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 34435More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many School Attendance Orders were issued by each local authority in England for each of the last five years.
Answer: The Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill introduces a duty on local authorities to maintain registers of children who are not in school, and a duty on parents to provide certain information for those registers. Parents must only provide details of their ...
Answered 7 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordPupils: AttendanceDepartment for EducationTabled 27 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 34434More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to her Department's Children Not in School Registers: regulatory impact assessment for the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill, if she will publish the statistics on School Attendance Order fin
Answer: The Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill introduces a duty on local authorities to maintain registers of children who are not in school, and a duty on parents to provide certain information for those registers. Parents must only provide details of their ...
Answered 7 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordPupils: AttendanceDepartment for EducationTabled 27 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 34433More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to her Department's Children Not in School Registers: regulatory impact assessment for the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill, published on 30 January 2025, for what reason (a) higher and (b)
Answer: The Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill introduces a duty on local authorities to maintain registers of children who are not in school, and a duty on parents to provide certain information for those registers. Parents must only provide details of their ...
Answered 7 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordChildren's Wellbeing and Schools BillDepartment for EducationTabled 27 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 34432More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when the further impact assessments for the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill will be added to the main bill page.
Answer: The full suite of impact assessments of the measures in the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/childrens-wellbeing-and-schools-bill-impact-assessments.
Answered 7 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordChildren's Wellbeing and Schools BillDepartment for EducationTabled 27 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 34431More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether the New Burdens Assessment will be completed before the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill receives Royal Assent.
Answer: The department has conducted initial new burdens impact assessments, in line with normal practice, for measures in the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill. Once the new burdens assessments have been finalised, where it is assessed there is a new burden ...
Answered 7 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordPupils: AttendanceDepartment for EducationTabled 27 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 34430More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when draft guidance on the Children Not In School measures in the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill will be published for consultation.
Answer: The Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill introduces a duty on local authorities to maintain registers of children who are not in school, and a duty on parents to provide certain information for those registers. Parents must only provide details of their ...
Answered 7 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordHome EducationDepartment for EducationTabled 27 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 34429More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether home educating parents will have to update the local authority within 15 days each time there is a change to the arrangements on record.
Answer: The Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill introduces a duty on local authorities to maintain registers of children who are not in school, and a duty on parents to provide certain information for those registers. Parents must only provide details of their ...
Answered 7 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordHome Education: Local GovernmentDepartment for EducationTabled 26 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 34081More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what information her Department holds on the number of local authority employees working with home educating families that are only employed during school term time; and whether she has made an assessment of th
Answer: The department does not hold information on the number of local authority employees working with home-educating families that are only employed during term time. Local authorities determine their own approaches to staffing.Additional local authority resou...
Answered 22 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordQualificationsDepartment for EducationTabled 3 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 21749More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference page 36 of the publication entitled Plan for Change: Milestones for mission-led government, published on 5 December 2024, what level of qualification will be considered higher-level.
Answer: The Plan for Change sets out the government’s long-term plan to improve the lives of working people and deliver a decade renewal across our country through ambitious, but achievable, milestones by the end of this Parliament. As part of the Plan for Change...
Answered 13 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordAdult Education: FinanceDepartment for EducationTabled 25 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 15962More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to paragraph 3.46 of the Autumn Budget 2024, HC 295, how much of the additional funding for further education will be spent on adult learning.
Answer: This government is committed to driving economic growth and supporting opportunity for all, and further education (FE) is central to this. The government is providing an additional £300 million for FE to support development of the skills our economy needs...
Answered 3 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordPostgraduate EducationDepartment for EducationTabled 21 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 15578More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she plans to increase funding for postgraduate researchers.
Answer: The government introduced postgraduate loans which, alongside other sources of funding, are a contribution to the cost of postgraduate level study to stimulate take-up.Decisions on student finance have had to be taken to ensure the system remains financia...
Answered 29 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordPostgraduate EducationDepartment for EducationTabled 21 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 15577More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to support postgraduate students.
Answer: The government introduced postgraduate loans which, alongside other sources of funding, are a contribution to the cost of postgraduate level study to stimulate take-up.Decisions on student finance have had to be taken to ensure the system remains financia...
Answered 29 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordStudents: LoansDepartment for EducationTabled 1 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 12314More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment she has made of the adequacy of maintenance loans for students.
Answer: The government recognises that UK higher education (HE) creates opportunity, is an engine for growth in our economy and supports local communities. We are determined that the HE funding system should deliver for our economy, for universities and for stude...
Answered 8 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordUniversities: FinanceDepartment for EducationTabled 31 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 12229More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what funding is available to universities via the Strategic Priorities Grant.
Answer: The government provides funding through the Strategic Priorities Grant (SPG) on an annual basis to support teaching and students in higher education (HE), including expensive to deliver subjects such as science and engineering, students at risk of discont...
Answered 8 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordUniversities: FinanceDepartment for EducationTabled 31 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 12228More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to help ensure the financial sustainability of universities.
Answer: The department understands that universities are under financial pressure, which is why we have taken the difficult decision to announce a tuition fee rise of 3.1% which will take effect at the start of the 2025/2026 academic year.The tuition fee limit in...
Answered 8 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordStudents: FinanceDepartment for EducationTabled 31 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 12227More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the level of maintenance support available to students in England.
Answer: The government recognises that UK higher education (HE) creates opportunity, is an engine for growth in our economy and supports local communities. We are determined that the HE funding system should deliver for our economy, for universities and for stude...
Answered 8 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordUniversities: Employers' ContributionsDepartment for EducationTabled 31 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 12223More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the increase in National Insurance employer contributions on university finances.
Answer: The department is aware that higher education (HE) providers will have to pay increased national insurance contributions. As my right hon. Friend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer set out in the Budget, raising the revenue required to fund public services ...
Answered 8 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordEducation: Exports and Overseas StudentsDepartment for EducationTabled 24 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 11091More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans her Department has to update the International Education Strategy.
Answer: The government will be conducting a review of the International Education Strategy, which will ensure that it continues to reflect the priorities of education stakeholders, businesses and this government. As part of the review, the department will underta...
Answered 1 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordVocational Education: FinanceDepartment for EducationTabled 4 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 6932More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of providing funding for vocational qualifications at level three for the 2025-26 academic year.
Answer: The department funds vocational and technical qualifications for post-16 learners and will continue to fund them in 2025 in line with its broader policy on qualifications.The government is clear that learners should study high quality qualifications that ...
Answered 14 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordLifelong Learning EntitlementDepartment for EducationTabled 22 Jul 2024AnsweredUIN 1137More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if her Department will make an assessment of the effectiveness of the Lifelong Learning Entitlement.
Answer: The government recognises that lifelong learning is a core part of a sustainable higher education system which provides opportunities for all and offers learners greater flexibility in an ever-evolving economy. At present, the department is working to ens...
Answered 30 Jul 2024
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