Lord Watson of Invergowrie

Her Majesty's Government, further to the announcement of additional resources for services for vulnerable children and families through the Children's Social Care Innovation Programme, what additional amounts will be allocated to (1) each of the Partners ...

Her Majesty's Government whether primary legislation is required to introduce the National Funding Formula for Schools in England.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the statement by the Minister for Apprenticeships and Skills on 19 April (HC Deb, col 713), how they calculated the figure of £200 million per annum, by 2020–21, as the extra cost of enabling parents of apprenti...

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what procedures are in place to enable the reporting of unlawful exclusions from state-funded schools.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many unlawful exclusions from state-funded schools were reported to the Department for Education in each of the last five academic years.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many training providers with no previous history of delivering apprenticeships were included on the Register of Apprenticeship Training Providers announced on 14 March.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many further education colleges rated (1) good, or (2) outstanding, by Ofsted were not included on the Register of Apprenticeship Training Providers announced on 14 March.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to assist those further education colleges which were not included on the Register of Apprenticeship Training Providers announced on 14 March.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the White Paper Educational Excellence Everywhere (Cm 9230) published in March 2016, which stated that they would review the responsibilities of local authorities in relation to children, including the implicati...

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the impact of abolition of the Child Poverty Unit on literacy rates of children living in poverty.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they intend to implement Chapter 1 of Part 4 of the Education and Skills Act 2008 in order to ensure that institutions which provide part-time education for one or more persons of compulsory school age are subject t...

To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they intend to review the pay scales for teachers over the course of this Parliament.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the reduction in the number of applications by students in England for nursing and midwifery courses at British universities beginning in 2017 compared to courses beginning in 2016 reported...

To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Nash on 1 February (HL5039), how far their three-year programme to prevent and address homophobic, biphobic and transphobic bullying in schools has progressed; whether an action plan f...

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what consultation exercises they undertook regarding the provision of education or children's services for which the closing date was between 1 January 2015 and 30 September 2016 and for which no response has been published...

To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many (1) maintained schools, (2) academies, and (3) free schools, invited outside organisations to provide careers guidance and advice to their pupils in the academic years (a) 2013–14, (b) 2014–15, and (c) 2015–16.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what discussions they have had, or plan to have, with the British Olympic Committee concerning the presence of UK athletes at the 2019 European Games, in the light of the human rights record of the host country, Belarus.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they have assessed the relative strengths of grammar schools and Sure Start Centres in relation to ensuring social mobility; and if so, what data were used and which stakeholders were consulted.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government upon what basis the figure of £60 million each year for the expansion of grammar schools over the remainder of this Parliament was decided; who was consulted; and what calculations were made.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government, in the light of the announcement in the Autumn Statement that funding would be made available for the expansion of grammar schools, whether new legislation will be introduced to Parliament to achieve this.