Grahame Morris MP: written questions
4 Jul 2024–3 Jul 2025
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Written questions
Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund: StandardsDepartment for EducationTabled 22 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 46704More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to reduce the time taken to process applications for the Adoption and Special Guardianship Support fund in the 2025-26 financial year.
Answer: The changes made to the adoption and special guardianship support fund will enable the funding to be accessed by the maximum number of children and families. This level of funding will still allow eligible adoptive and kinship children to access a signifi...
Answered 1 May 2025
Original Parliament recordAdoption and Special Guardianship Support FundDepartment for EducationTabled 22 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 46703More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department consulted with its (a) kinship carer and (b) adopter reference groups before the decision to change the funding arrangements for the Adoption and Special Guardianship Support fund in the
Answer: The changes made to the adoption and special guardianship support fund will enable the funding to be accessed by the maximum number of children and families. This level of funding will still allow eligible adoptive and kinship children to access a signifi...
Answered 1 May 2025
Original Parliament recordAdoption and Special Guardianship Support FundDepartment for EducationTabled 22 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 46702More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of the changes to the Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund in the 2025-26 financial year on (a) kinship and (b) adoptive families.
Answer: The changes made to the adoption and special guardianship support fund will enable the funding to be accessed by the maximum number of children and families. This level of funding will still allow eligible adoptive and kinship children to access a signifi...
Answered 1 May 2025
Original Parliament recordAdult Education: FinanceDepartment for EducationTabled 4 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 44214More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment she has made of the potential impact of reductions in the level of funding for the Adult Skills Fund to mayoral combined authorities on (a) Courses for Jobs and (b) tailored learning; and
Answer: This government is currently facing a challenging fiscal context. Fixing the foundations of the economy will take time, and tough decisions are needed across the public sector to get our finances back under control and ensure that we deliver on our priori...
Answered 9 May 2025
Original Parliament recordAdult Education: FinanceDepartment for EducationTabled 4 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 44213More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment she has made of the potential impact of the proposed reduction in the Education and Skills Funding Agency Adult Skills Fund on (a) Courses for Jobs and (b) tailored learning.
Answer: This government is currently facing a challenging fiscal context. Fixing the foundations of the economy will take time, and tough decisions are needed across the public sector to get our finances back under control and ensure that we deliver on our priori...
Answered 9 May 2025
Original Parliament recordGraduates: VisasDepartment for EducationTabled 24 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 40443More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, which (a) Departments, (b) agencies and (c) public bodies employ staff on graduate visas.
Answer: The department employs people on graduate visas. Of our executive non-departmental public bodies, the following employ people on graduate visas:Construction Industry Training Board.Student Loans Company.Engineering Construction Industry Training Board.Soc...
Answered 9 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordTeachers: Workplace PensionsDepartment for EducationTabled 27 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 34244More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what discussions her Department has had with public sector pension scheme boards on ensuring that public sector workers who transfer to a private sector prison education provider retain access to their teachers
Answer: The department has been consulting on proposed changes to the Teachers’ Pension Scheme (TPS) regulations in view of the recent reclassification of further education colleges as public sector by the Office for National Statistics. The extension of the Fair...
Answered 22 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordKinship Care: FinanceDepartment for EducationTabled 10 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 18926More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when she plans to announce the ten pilot areas for the Kinship Care Allowance.
Answer: The department recognises the important role that kinship carers play in caring for some of the most vulnerable children, and the role local authorities have in supporting them.The government has recently announced a £40 million package to trial a new Kin...
Answered 16 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordShipping: ApprenticesDepartment for EducationTabled 28 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 11234More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many seafarer apprentices were in training in 2023-24.
Answer: Latest figures for the 2023/24 academic year show that there have been 50 starts on the Level 2 Seafarer (deck rating) apprenticeship standard.
Answered 5 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordPrimary Education: Free School MealsDepartment for EducationTabled 24 Jul 2024AnsweredUIN 1481More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an estimate of the cost for introducing free school meals for all primary school children.
Answer: This government has not made a formal assessment of the cost of providing free school meals to all primary school children. The department is separately committed to introducing free breakfast clubs in every primary school to ensure children are set-up fo...
Answered 29 Jul 2024
Original Parliament recordKinship Care: FinanceDepartment for EducationTabled 17 Jul 2024AnsweredUIN 49More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what her Department's policy is on the potential merits of trialling a kinship care allowance.
Answer: The department is committed to working in partnership with local government to support children in care, whether they are being looked after by their community of wider kinship care, foster carers and adoptive parents, or being cared for in children’s hom...
Answered 22 Jul 2024
Original Parliament recordKinship Care: FinanceDepartment for EducationTabled 17 Jul 2024AnsweredUIN 48More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of providing a financial allowance to kinship carers equal to that received by foster carers.
Answer: The department is committed to working in partnership with local government to support children in care, whether they are being looked after by their community of wider kinship care, foster carers and adoptive parents, or being cared for in children’s hom...
Answered 22 Jul 2024
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