Sarah Olney MP: written questions
4 Jul 2024–3 Jul 2025
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Skills EnglandDepartment for EducationTabled 25 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 62737More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make it his policy to reconstitute Skills England as an independent body.
Answer: Skills England has been established as an executive agency of the Department for Education, a model of arm’s length body with a clearly defined status, established and governed in line with Cabinet Office guidance. As an executive agency, Skills England w...
Answered 4 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordLifelong Learning EntitlementDepartment for EducationTabled 25 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 62735More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent discussions she has had with Cabinet colleagues on the introduction of lifelong learning grants.
Answer: The government recognises that lifelong learning is a core part of a sustainable higher education system which provides opportunities for all and offers learners greater flexibility in an ever-evolving economy. We are committed to supporting lifelong lear...
Answered 16 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordChildren: ProtectionDepartment for EducationTabled 3 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 56864More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to her Department's statutory guidance entitled Working Together to Safeguard Children, updated 8 May 2025, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of including adoptive parent
Answer: The ‘Working together to safeguard children’ statutory guidance is multi-agency guidance that sets out the help, support and protection available to all children and their families. Where the guidance refers to parents, this includes adoptive parents. The...
Answered 11 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordChildcare: FinanceDepartment for EducationTabled 25 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 33527More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the threshold level for eligibility for (a) 30 hours of free childcare and (b) tax-free childcare on working parents who earn between £100,000 and £125,00
Answer: The government is committed to delivering the expansion of the 30 hours free childcare offer so that from September 2025 eligible working parents in England will be able to access 30 hours of free childcare per week, over 38 weeks of the year, from the te...
Answered 11 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordEducation: DemocracyDepartment for EducationTabled 13 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23399More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has had discussions with Cabinet colleagues on steps to increase democratic education.
Answer: For secondary schools, democracy is currently taught through the national curriculum for citizenship at key stages 3 and 4, which covers parliamentary democracy, the key elements of the constitution of the United Kingdom, the power of government and how c...
Answered 21 Jan 2025
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