Richard Tice MP: written questions

Written questions

• Teachers: Labour TurnoverDepartment for EducationTabled 4 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 28780More

  Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to improve teacher retention in (a) Boston and Skegness constituency and (b) the UK.

  Answer: The within school factor that makes the biggest difference to a young person’s educational outcome is high-quality teaching. Recruiting and retaining more qualified, expert teachers is therefore critical to the government’s mission to break down barriers ...

  Answered 12 Feb 2025

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• Department for Education: Freedom of InformationDepartment for EducationTabled 29 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 27386More

  Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many staff in her Department are responsible for (a) processing and (b) responding to Freedom of Information Act requests; and if she will make an estimate of the annual cost to the public purse of this wor

  Answer: Answering requests under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 is part of the day-to-day work of all the department’s officials. The costs of officials’ time are not held in such a way that time spent on processing and responding to Freedom of Information r...

  Answered 11 Feb 2025

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• Private EducationDepartment for EducationTabled 15 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 24330More

  Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will take steps to (a) support the private education sector and (b) encourage its expansion (i) domestically and (ii) internationally.

  Answer: The department encourages private schools to be high quality and is seeking to further improve regulation of the sector through measures outlined in the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill. Amongst other things, the Bill seeks to ensure that all pupils ...

  Answered 23 Jan 2025

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• Department for Education: Carbon EmissionsDepartment for EducationTabled 9 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23056More

  Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much her Department has spent on measures to achieve net zero targets in the last five years.

  Answer: High and rising school standards are at the heart of this government’s mission to break down barriers to opportunity and give every child the best start in life. Ensuring schools have the high quality and sustainable buildings they need is a key part of t...

  Answered 6 Feb 2025

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• Private Education: Special Educational NeedsDepartment for EducationTabled 12 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 19899More

  Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of (a) the number of SEN pupils expected to transition to the state sector as a result of the introduction of VAT on independent school fees and (b) the cost to the state education sy

  Answer: His Majesty’s Treasury (HMT) is responsible for VAT policy. HMT has published its assessment of the impacts of removing the VAT exemption that applied to private school fees, which can be found on GOV.UK: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/vat-on-...

  Answered 19 Dec 2024

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• Home Education: RegistrationDepartment for EducationTabled 29 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 11778More

  Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the proposed Children Not In School register on families who home-educate their children.

  Answer: The proposals to require every local authority in England to maintain registers of children not in school, which are to be included in the future Children’s Wellbeing Bill, are intended to help local authorities identify all home educating families in the...

  Answered 6 Nov 2024

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