Lucy Powell: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 11 June 2018 to Question 140739 on Education: North of England, how much and what proportion of the funding came from the Northern Powerhouse Education Fund.
Lucy Powell: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, on what dates the original application process opened and closed for the Chair of the Social Mobility Commission; how many people applied for that position before the closure of the original application process; whether the application process was then extended; how many people applied for that position after any such extension; and if he will make...
Lucy Powell: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when the process for bids to the Northern Powerhouse Education Fund (a) opened and (b) closed; what the remit of the Northern Powerhouse Education Fund is; what the bidding process was for that Fund; how many applications to that Fund were received; and which of those applications were successful.
Lucy Powell: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 27 June 2018 to Question 155300 Education and Skills Funding Agency, of the 566 staff to employ the schools system how many are in each civil service salary pay band.
Lucy Powell: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 10 July to Question 161170, on Regional Schools Commissioners and School Commissioner: Staff, how many people employed in the Office of the National Schools Commissioner and in regional schools commissioner offices are in each civil service pay band.
Lucy Powell: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when the process for bids to the Northern Powerhouse Education Fund (a) opened and (b) closed; what the remit of the Northern Powerhouse Education Fund is; what the bidding process was for that Fund; how many applications to that Fund were received; and which of those applications were successful.
Lucy Powell: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when he telephoned Dame Martina Milburn to encourage her to apply to be Chair the Social Mobility Commission; how many other people he so encouraged; and what the names are of those people.
Lucy Powell: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many applicants were (a) long-listed, (b) shortlisted and (c) interviewed for the position of Chair of the Social Mobility Commission; how many people and who were on the panels to decide on the (i) long-list, (ii) shortlist and (iii) list of interviewees for that position; how many stages of interview took place for that position; and who...
Lucy Powell: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when the original application process (a) opened and (b) closed for the position of Chair of the Social Mobility Commission; how many people applied for that position before the closure of the original application process; and whether that application process was extended.
Lucy Powell: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 22 March 2018 to Question 132609, what proportion of that funding to support trainees on the Graduate Employment Based route for Early Years ITT has been provided to (a) maintained nursery schools, (b) nursery classes in schools, (c) private and voluntary sector early years provision and (d) childminders.
Lucy Powell: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 4 June 2018 to Question 147898 on Regional Schools Commissioners and Schools Commissioner, what the civil service salary band is of the people employed in the (a) Office of the National Schools Commissioner (a) each office of the Regional Schools Commissioners.
Lucy Powell: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of schools re-brokered by a Regional Schools Commissioner have been re-brokered to a member of a Regional Schools Commissioner head teacher board.
Lucy Powell: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 19 June 2018 to Question 153837 on Ofsted, what the civil service pay grade is each of the staff employed by Ofsted to regulate the schools system.
Lucy Powell: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 15 June 2018 to Question 152777 on Academies: Finance, which contentious connected party transactions were referred to the Education and Skills Funding Agency relating to (a) Collective Spirit Multi Academy Trust, (b) Wakefield City Academies Trust and (c) Bright Tribe multi-academy trust; and what action was taken as a...
Lucy Powell: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of the cost of the High Speed Two station at Birmingham airport; and how that station will be funded.
Lucy Powell: I thank the Minister for giving way; he did intervene on a number of colleagues during the debate. He champions numeracy, but does he accept that spending power is reduced when costs go up and income remains the same? The number of teachers who can be employed, the amount of training that can be put on and the support that schools can provide has reduced, and budgets have therefore fallen.
Lucy Powell: It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Erewash (Maggie Throup). I thank the right hon. Member for Harlow (Robert Halfon) for securing this debate and for encouraging the rest of us on the Education Committee to seek to secure it too. Despite earlier provocation, I am not going to talk about how we cut the cake; I want to talk about the size of the cake. I am sure that we will hear...
Lucy Powell: I thank my hon. Friend. I think the actual figure for the system as a whole is a lot higher than that. Further education, as the right hon. Member for Harlow said, has also been starved of cash since 2010. However, the spending power of higher education has increased by around 25%—austerity certainly has not hit that sector—but FE has seen cuts of around the same amount at a time...
Lucy Powell: You obviously need to work on that.
Lucy Powell: Coming off the back of all the turmoil that we have seen on Northern and elsewhere recently, is not this equivocation on the electrification of the Manchester-to-Leeds line just another really serious blow for people in the north, who now feel overwhelmingly, time and again, that they are getting a second-class service from this Government? Will the Minister please offer some political...