Rebecca Paul MP: written questions
4 Jul 2024–3 Jul 2025
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Written questions
Offences against Children: InternetDepartment for EducationTabled 2 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 64652More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what (a) guidance and (b) training is provided to (i) teachers and (ii) school staff to help ensure they are (A) confident and (B) equipped to (1) educate pupils about online grooming and (2) respond appropriat
Answer: As part of statutory relationships and health education in primary schools and relationships, sex and health education (RSHE) in secondary schools, pupils are taught about online safety and harms. The statutory guidance emphasises that schools should be a...
Answered 10 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordOffences against Children: InternetDepartment for EducationTabled 2 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 64651More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to improve online safety education in schools to help children (a) recognise and (b) respond to online grooming.
Answer: As part of statutory relationships and health education in primary schools and relationships, sex and health education (RSHE) in secondary schools, pupils are taught about online safety and harms. The statutory guidance emphasises that schools should be a...
Answered 10 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordStudents: LoansDepartment for EducationTabled 1 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 64187More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of calculating student loan repayments on an annual basis to prevent overpayments.
Answer: Student loan repayments for borrowers resident in the UK are collected by HMRC through the UK tax system, which is an efficient approach that minimises the burden on borrowers. Employers deduct repayments each pay period for employees with a student loan ...
Answered 9 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordBreakfast Clubs: Pilot SchemesDepartment for EducationTabled 28 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 48789More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, for what reason Hatchlands Primary School in Redhill has withdrawn from the breakfast club trial.
Answer: Schools were able to apply to join the breakfast clubs early adopter scheme in November and December last year. The department published an updated list of successful schools on 22 April.The department has been working closely with schools on the scheme t...
Answered 9 May 2025
Original Parliament recordTeachers: QualificationsDepartment for EducationTabled 20 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 40091More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of amending the assessment only route to Qualified Teacher Status to allow applications from unqualified teachers who have worked in one school th
Answer: The assessment only (AO) route to qualified teacher status (QTS) has been designed to allow experienced unqualified teachers to be assessed against the Teachers’ Standards and awarded QTS if they meet them all at the appropriate level.The AO criteria sets...
Answered 28 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordSpecial Educational Needs: ReigateDepartment for EducationTabled 15 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 9367More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to improve the provision of SEND support for children in Reigate constituency.
Answer: The department is continuing to support and challenge Surrey to improve the delivery of its special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) services, following the most recent local area SEND inspection by Ofsted and the Care Quality Commission in Septe...
Answered 23 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordChildren: ProtectionDepartment for EducationTabled 9 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 8379More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what data her Department holds on the proportion of families with children about whom (a) care and (b) protection issues have been raised who are offered a family group conference.
Answer: The department does not hold this data Statutory guidance for local authorities, such as ‘Working together to safeguard children’ and the ‘Children’s social care national framework’, encourages local authorities to consider family group decision making, s...
Answered 18 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordSchools: ReigateDepartment for EducationTabled 12 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 5805More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has made an estimate of the number of children who may move from independent to state sector schools as a result of the planned introduction of VAT on independent schools in Reigate constituency; an
Answer: In line with research from the independent Institute for Fiscal Studies, the government does not anticipate the ending of the VAT exemption that private schools enjoy to prompt notable movement into the state sector, and any movement is expected to take p...
Answered 7 Oct 2024
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