Helen Morgan MP: written questions
4 Jul 2024–3 Jul 2025
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Written questions
Schools: Rural AreasDepartment for EducationTabled 19 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 61298More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to support schools in rural areas.
Answer: The government recognises the essential role that small schools play in their communities, many of which are in rural areas. The schools national funding formula (NFF) distributes core funding for mainstream schools. It accounts for the particular challen...
Answered 26 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordSchools: AsbestosDepartment for EducationTabled 19 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 61297More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to support schools that have discovered asbestos insulation in their building structures.
Answer: The government has increased investment to improve the condition of school buildings across England to £2.1 billion for the 2025/26 financial year. We have also given a long term commitment to increase annual capital maintenance investment per year throug...
Answered 26 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordSchools: Repairs and MaintenanceDepartment for EducationTabled 19 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 61296More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to support schools experiencing structural damage caused by badgers.
Answer: The government has increased investment to improve the condition of school buildings across England to £2.1 billion for the 2025/26 financial year. We have also given a long term commitment to increase annual capital maintenance investment per year throug...
Answered 26 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordTeachers: PayDepartment for EducationTabled 19 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 61295More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of awarding teachers a 4 per cent pay increase on schools’ ability to (a) afford education supplies and (b) carry out building repairs.
Answer: School funding is increasing by £3.7 billion in the 2025/26 financial year, meaning that core school budgets will total £65.3 billion compared to £61.6 billion in 2024/25.This includes the £2.3 billion announced at the October Budget and £1.4 billion in a...
Answered 27 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordCorbet School: Repairs and MaintenanceDepartment for EducationTabled 19 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 61293More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of the structural issues in The Corbet School in Shropshire.
Answer: The government has increased capital funding to £2.1 billion for school maintenance in the 2025/26 financial year, almost £300 million more than in 2024/25. As part of this, the department announced on 30 May that the £470 million Condition Improvement Fu...
Answered 26 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordCorbet School: Condition Improvement FundDepartment for EducationTabled 19 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 61290More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if her Department will approve The Corbet School’s appeal against the rejection of its 2025-26 Condition Improvement Fund bids.
Answer: The government has increased capital funding to £2.1 billion for school maintenance in the 2025/26 financial year, almost £300 million more than in 2024/25. As part of this, the department announced on 30 May that the £470 million Condition Improvement Fu...
Answered 26 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordAdoption and Special Guardianship Support FundDepartment for EducationTabled 12 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 59692More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she received representations from medical professionals before reducing the Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund's fair access limit.
Answer: The changes made to the criteria for the adoption and special guardianship support fund ensure that each child can still access a significant package of support. The department always considers the impact of decisions on vulnerable children.
Answered 20 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordAdoption and Special Guardianship Support FundDepartment for EducationTabled 12 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 59691More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department undertook a risk assessment before reducing the Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund's fair access limit.
Answer: The changes made to the criteria for the adoption and special guardianship support fund ensure that each child can still access a significant package of support. The department always considers the impact of decisions on vulnerable children.
Answered 20 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordAdoption and Special Guardianship Support FundDepartment for EducationTabled 11 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 59152More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of reductions to the Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund's fair access limit on the financial stability of adoptive families.
Answer: The adoption and special guardianship support fund (ASGSF) is continuing to play an important role in the overall stability of adoptive families, alongside other forms of support. This government is committed to breaking down barriers to opportunity. The ...
Answered 19 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordFurther Education: Employers' ContributionsDepartment for EducationTabled 14 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23930More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of changes to employers' National Insurance contributions on specialist colleges.
Answer: The department is receiving compensation in recognition of the increase in National Insurance contributions (NICs) paid by institutions it funds, including colleges, schools and other state-funded special educational needs and disabilities provision. Work...
Answered 20 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordChildren: DisabilityDepartment for EducationTabled 8 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 7885More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an estimate of the change to real terms spending on services for disabled children by Shropshire Council since 2016.
Answer: From the 2015/16 financial year to 2022/23, the most recent year for which information is available, the increase in net spending by Shropshire Council on provision and services for children and young people with complex special educational needs and disa...
Answered 14 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordHoliday Activities and Food ProgrammeDepartment for EducationTabled 4 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 6665More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential impact of the end of the holiday activities and food programme on lower-income families.
Answer: The future of the Holiday Activities and Food programme beyond 31 March 2025 is subject to the next government Spending Review taking place this autumn and the department will communicate the outcome of that process in due course.
Answered 14 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordChildren: Mental HealthDepartment for EducationTabled 4 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 6664More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to tackle mental health challenges in children from low-income families during school holidays.
Answer: The department has invested over £200 million every year since 2022 in free holiday club places for children from low-income families through the holiday activities and food (HAF) programme with all 153 local authorities in England delivering in the Easte...
Answered 14 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordHoliday Activities and Food ProgrammeDepartment for EducationTabled 4 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 6663More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department has made a recent assessment of the potential safeguarding dangers to children from low-income families resulting from the end of the holiday activities and food programme.
Answer: The future of the Holiday Activities and Food programme beyond 31 March 2025 is subject to the next government Spending Review taking place this autumn and the department will communicate the outcome of that process in due course.
Answered 14 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordPrivate Education: Fees and ChargesDepartment for EducationTabled 3 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 4059More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of applying VAT to private school fees on state-funded special educational needs provision.
Answer: My right hon. Friend, the Prime Minister has been clear that if a child has an education, health and care plan that requires them to attend a private school because their needs cannot be met in the state sector, they will not feel an impact from this poli...
Answered 11 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordTeachers: RecruitmentDepartment for EducationTabled 2 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 3838More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an estimate of spending by schools on using recruitment agencies to fill teaching vacancies in the 2023-24 financial year.
Answer: The department does not hold or collect the data to provide the requested estimate.For state-funded schools wishing to recruit teachers on a permanent or fixed term basis, Teaching Vacancies is a free national listing service which removes the cost for sc...
Answered 10 Sept 2024
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