Josh Newbury MP: written questions
4 Jul 2024–3 Jul 2025
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Written questions
Foster Care: AdoptionDepartment for EducationTabled 22 May 2025AnsweredUIN 54422More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of the foster to adopt pathway for (a) adopted children and (b) the stability of adoptive placements.
Answer: Fostering to adopt, also known as early permanence, is a crucial way to offer children stability at a very early stage, preventing multiple moves in the care system. The department has provided funding of £250,000 in 2025/26 for Adoption England to promot...
Answered 11 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordChildren in CareDepartment for EducationTabled 22 May 2025AnsweredUIN 54421More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to ensure local authorities use the foster to adopt pathway for children in care.
Answer: Fostering to adopt, also known as early permanence, is a crucial way to offer children stability at a very early stage, preventing multiple moves in the care system. The department has provided funding of £250,000 in 2025/26 for Adoption England to promot...
Answered 11 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordDepartment for Education: Electric VehiclesDepartment for EducationTabled 30 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 49484More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of vehicles rented by her Department are electric vehicles.
Answer: 0.11% of cars rented by the department were electric vehicles over the past two years, which equated to a total of five.The department will have a new vehicle hire contract in place from 2026 and, working with suppliers and other government departments, i...
Answered 3 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordPupil Referral Units: Per Capita CostsDepartment for EducationTabled 24 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 26349More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of variations in per pupil funding for places in pupil referral units on pupils' educational outcomes.
Answer: Most funding for pupil referral units, and other alternative provision (AP), comes from local authorities’ high needs budgets, Following the Autumn Budget 2024, the department is providing an increase of £1 billion for high needs budgets in England in the...
Answered 29 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordPupil Referral UnitsDepartment for EducationTabled 23 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 26101More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that pupil referral unit premises are fit for purpose.
Answer: Local authorities are responsible for providing enough school places for their area. The department provides capital funding through the basic need grant to secure mainstream school places and through the high needs provision capital allocations to invest...
Answered 30 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordPupil Referral Units: StaffordshireDepartment for EducationTabled 23 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 26100More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that there is adequate capacity in pupil referral units in (a) Cannock Chase constituency and (b) Staffordshire.
Answer: Local authorities are responsible for providing enough school places for their area. The department provides capital funding through the basic need grant to secure mainstream school places and through the high needs provision capital allocations to invest...
Answered 30 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordUniversities: Care LeaversDepartment for EducationTabled 19 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 15062More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what support her Department provides to care leaver university students outside of term time.
Answer: This government is committed to providing support for care leavers to ensure they have the practical and emotional support they need as they move towards independence.Local authorities must provide assistance to care leavers near to the place they are rec...
Answered 25 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordDegrees and Higher National DiplomasDepartment for EducationTabled 24 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 11080More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to increase the provision of level (a) five and (b) six qualifications in areas that do not have a university.
Answer: The department continues to support access to higher level qualifications to break down barriers to opportunity and support economic growth.The department continues to support learners who wish to progress from Level 3 to a higher level, whether that is t...
Answered 1 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordSchool Libraries: LGBT+ PeopleDepartment for EducationTabled 23 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 10848More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the implications for her policies of trends in the number of requests to schools to remove LGBT+ literature from school libraries.
Answer: The current national curriculum requires teachers to encourage pupils to develop the habit of reading widely and often, for both pleasure and information. It also emphasises the importance of children listening to, discussing and reading for themselves a ...
Answered 31 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordAcademies: Operating CostsDepartment for EducationTabled 23 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 10846More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the value for money of the central costs of operating academy trusts.
Answer: The primary responsibility for the financial oversight of academy trusts rests with the trustees themselves, who are supported by the financial management and governance requirements set by the department in academy trusts’ funding agreements, the academy...
Answered 31 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordAcademies: FinanceDepartment for EducationTabled 23 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 10845More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of the central costs of academy trusts on the budgets of academy schools.
Answer: The primary responsibility for the financial oversight of academy trusts rests with the trustees themselves, who are supported by the financial management and governance requirements set by the department in academy trusts’ funding agreements, the academy...
Answered 31 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordSchools: AdmissionsDepartment for EducationTabled 23 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 10842More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 13 September 2024 to Question 4283 on Schools: Admissions, what steps her Department is taking to issue guidance to Local Planning Authorities on appropriate levels of section 106 cont
Answer: In August 2023, the department published two non-statutory guidance documents for local authorities planning for education, local planning authorities (LPAs) and other stakeholders involved in the delivery of schools.The guidance on 'Estimating pupil yiel...
Answered 31 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordSchools: AdmissionsDepartment for EducationTabled 4 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 4283More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to ensure the adequacy of school place provision in areas with high levels of housebuilding.
Answer: Local authorities are responsible for providing enough school places for children in their area. The department provides capital funding through the Basic Need grant to support local authorities to provide school places, based on their own pupil forecasts...
Answered 13 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordSpecial Educational Needs: StaffordshireDepartment for EducationTabled 3 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 4065More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to support (a) children with SEND and (b) their parents in (i) Cannock Chase constituency and (ii) Staffordshire.
Answer: Following the last Ofsted inspection, departmental officials have been working with Staffordshire County Council (SCC) to closely monitor progress against the areas for improvement identified by inspectors. The department appointed a special educational n...
Answered 11 Sept 2024
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