Damian Hinds MP: written questions
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Free School Meals: ExpenditureDepartment for EducationTabled 4 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 5980More
Question: 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.
Answer: Local authorities receive their core funding for schools through the Dedicated Schools Grant (DSG). Since 2018/19, the DSG allocations have been calculated based on the national funding formula (NFF). The schools NFF includes a ’free school meal (FSM) fac...
Answered 14 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordBreakfast Clubs: ExpenditureDepartment for EducationTabled 4 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 5979More
Question: 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
Answer: There are 2,700 schools participating in the National Schools Breakfast Programme. In 2023/24, £12 million was made available to fund the National Breakfast Club Programme. This government will now go further to ensure that every primary school age child ...
Answered 14 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordBreakfast ClubsDepartment for EducationTabled 4 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 5978More
Question: 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
Answer: To date, the department has not regularly collected data on the total number of schools that operate breakfast clubs, and, as a result, the department is unable to project the anticipated numbers for this academic year.The National School Breakfast Club P...
Answered 17 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordSchools: AdmissionsDepartment for EducationTabled 4 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 5977More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, to which English parliamentary constituencies each Secondary Planning Area relates.
Answer: Information on Secondary Planning Areas as of May 2023 is published at school level in the annual School Capacity statistics publication. This can be accessed here: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-capacity. Secon...
Answered 14 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordPrivate Education: TaxationTreasuryTabled 4 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 5976More
Question: 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
Answer: On 29 July, the Government announced that, as of 1 January 2025, all education services and vocational training provided by a private school in the UK for a charge will be subject to VAT at the standard rate of 20 per cent. This will also apply to boardin...
Answered 14 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordPrivate Education: TaxationTreasuryTabled 4 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 5975More
Question: 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
Answer: On 29 July, the Government announced that, as of 1 January 2025, all education services and vocational training provided by a private school in the UK for a charge will be subject to VAT at the standard rate of 20 per cent. This will also apply to boardin...
Answered 14 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordPrivate Education: Fees and ChargesTreasuryTabled 11 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 5276More
Question: 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
Answer: On 29 July, the Government announced that, as of 1 January 2025, all education services and vocational training provided by a private school in the UK for a charge will be subject to VAT at the standard rate of 20 per cent. This will also apply to boardin...
Answered 7 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordPrivate Education: Fees and ChargesTreasuryTabled 11 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 5275More
Question: 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
Answer: On 29 July, the Government announced that, as of 1 January 2025, all education services and vocational training provided by a private school in the UK for a charge will be subject to VAT at the standard rate of 20 per cent. This will also apply to boardin...
Answered 7 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordPrivate Education: Fees and ChargesTreasuryTabled 11 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 5274More
Question: 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)
Answer: On 29 July, the Government announced that, as of 1 January 2025, all education services and vocational training provided by a private school in the UK for a charge will be subject to VAT at the standard rate of 20 per cent. This will also apply to boardin...
Answered 7 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordPrivate Education: Fees and ChargesTreasuryTabled 11 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 5273More
Question: 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
Answer: On 29 July, the Government announced that, as of 1 January 2025, all education services and vocational training provided by a private school in the UK for a charge will be subject to VAT at the standard rate of 20 per cent. This will also apply to boardin...
Answered 7 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordTeachers: TrainingDepartment for EducationTabled 9 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 4625More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she plans to continue to report on the (a) outputs of the Teacher Workforce Model and (b) extent to which targets are met.
Answer: The department uses the Teacher Workforce Model to calculate postgraduate initial teacher trainee targets each year. These targets are published online each year as part of an official statistics publication, the department intends to publish the 2025/26 ...
Answered 17 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordPrivate Education: VATDepartment for EducationTabled 9 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 4624More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of charging VAT on independent schools on levels of usage of unregistered schools.
Answer: Unregistered schools, by their nature, are unregistered and at risk of being unknown, therefore this is not possible to precisely ascertain. It is an offence under Section 96 of the Education and Skills Act 2008 for any person to conduct an unregistered ...
Answered 17 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordSpecial Educational NeedsDepartment for EducationTabled 9 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 4623More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she is making additional resources available to accommodate changes in the number of Education Health and Care Plan applications (a) this and (b) next financial year.
Answer: The department is aware not only of the financial pressures that local authorities are facing due to the increasing cost of supporting children and young people with education, health and care (EHC) plans, but also the pressures that the government as a w...
Answered 17 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordPrivate Education: Business Rates and VATTreasuryTabled 9 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 4622More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she has received representations over the timing of her Department's consultation on Applying VAT to Private School Fees and Removing the Business Rates Charitable Rates Relief for Private Schools.
Answer: On 29 July, the Government announced that, as of 1 January 2025, all education services and vocational training provided by a private school in the UK for a charge will be subject to VAT at the standard rate of 20 per cent. This will also apply to boardin...
Answered 17 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordPrivate Education: VATTreasuryTabled 9 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 4621More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether her Department is providing the Office for Budget Responsibility with input assumptions on (a) the price elasticity of demand for independent sector education and (b) the number of children likely to move to
Answer: On 29 July, the Government announced that, as of 1 January 2025, all education services and vocational training provided by a private school in the UK for a charge will be subject to VAT at the standard rate of 20 per cent. This will also apply to boardin...
Answered 12 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordPrivate Education: VATTreasuryTabled 9 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 4620More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will take steps to exempt pupils awaiting an Education Health and Care Plan from the introduction of VAT on independent school fees.
Answer: On 29 July, the Government announced that, as of 1 January 2025, all education services and vocational training provided by a private school in the UK for a charge will be subject to VAT at the standard rate of 20 per cent. This will also apply to boardin...
Answered 17 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordPrivate Education: VATTreasuryTabled 5 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 4349More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the imposition of VAT on independent school fees on the number of children who are home schooled.
Answer: On 29 July, the Government announced that, as of 1 January 2025, all education services and vocational training provided by a private school in the UK for a charge will be subject to VAT at the standard rate of 20 per cent. This will also apply to boardin...
Answered 12 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordPupil Numbers: Yorkshire and the HumberDepartment for EducationTabled 4 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 4201More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children of secondary school age are (a) resident and (b) on roll at state secondary schools in (i) Yorkshire & the Humber; (ii) York Local Authority and (iii) secondary planning area 8169997; and how
Answer: The department does not hold information on all children and young people by residence.Information on unfilled state secondary school places, as at May 2023, is published in the School Capacity statistics publication, which can be found here: https://expl...
Answered 13 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordPupil Numbers: North WestDepartment for EducationTabled 4 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 4200More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children of secondary school age are (a) resident and (b) on the roll in (i) the North West, (ii) Salford Local Authority, (iii) secondary planning area 3550101, (iv) secondary planning area 3550102 an
Answer: The department does not hold information on all children and young people by residence.Information on unfilled state secondary school places, as at May 2023, is published in the School Capacity statistics publication, which can be found here: https://expl...
Answered 13 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordPupil Numbers: South WestDepartment for EducationTabled 4 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 4199More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many (a) children of secondary school age are resident, (b) children are on roll at state secondary schools and (c) places are unfilled in state secondary schools in (i) the South West, (ii) the local autho
Answer: The department does not hold information on all children and young people by residence.Information on unfilled state secondary school places, as at May 2023, is published in the School Capacity statistics publication, which can be found here: https://expl...
Answered 13 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordSchools: AdmissionsDepartment for EducationTabled 4 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 4198More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what data on unfilled school capacity by 2024 parliamentary constituency she plans to publish before the Finance Bill is introduced.
Answer: The department publishes annual statistics on the capacity and pupils on roll in schools, including unfilled places, each spring. This is available at: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-capacity. Statistics publica...
Answered 13 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordFurther Education: VATTreasuryTabled 4 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 4197More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether specialist post-16 institutions will be exempt from VAT.
Answer: On 29 July, the Government announced that, as of 1 January 2025, all education services and vocational training provided by a private school in the UK for a charge will be subject to VAT at the standard rate of 20 per cent. This will also apply to boardin...
Answered 12 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordPrivate Education: VATTreasuryTabled 4 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 4196More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she has made an estimate of the maximum number of pupils that could move from independent to state schools for there to be a net increase in revenues to the Exchequer arising from her policy on levying VAT o
Answer: On 29 July, the Government announced that, as of 1 January 2025, all education services and vocational training provided by a private school in the UK for a charge will be subject to VAT at the standard rate of 20 per cent. This will also apply to boardin...
Answered 12 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordPrivate Education: VATTreasuryTabled 30 Aug 2024AnsweredUIN 2834More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what communications she plans to issue to smaller independent schools on the proposed application of VAT to private school fees.
Answer: The government recognises that, for many private schools, this will be the first time they have needed to register for VAT. The government is committed to supporting these schools to ensure that the registration process is as smooth as possible for them, ...
Answered 9 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordPrivate Education: VATTreasuryTabled 30 Aug 2024AnsweredUIN 2833More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what resources her Department plans to provide HMRC to support independent schools become VAT registered by 1 January 2025.
Answer: The government recognises that, for many private schools, this will be the first time they have needed to register for VAT. The government is committed to supporting these schools to ensure that the registration process is as smooth as possible for them, ...
Answered 9 Sept 2024
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