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522906

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date	06/06/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Diesel Vehicles: Exhaust Emissions
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what action they intend to take about the reported proposal by Dean Trust to educate children with special educational needs and disability who have been admitted to one of its schools at another of its schools six miles away.
tabling member printed	Lord Lucas
uin	HL457
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/06/2016 answer text <p>Local authorities are responsible for drawing up Education, Health and Care Plans (EHCPs) and are responsible for making sure the special educational provision set out in them is delivered, including admission to the named school. Once named in a final EHCP, a school is obliged to admit the child or young person. Should a school fail to meet this duty the Department can direct them to do so.</p><p>We are aware of concerns raised by parents and others about The Dean Trust’s proposal that pupils due for admission in September 2016 who have an EHCP which names Ashton on Mersey School should be educated at Broadoak School. We are determined to support the parties to satisfactorily resolve the situation regarding the currently affected pupils as well as in the longer term, and ensuring that the legal rights of families are enforced. For that reason officials will be meeting with the authority and trust on 20 June. Our priority is ensuring that the transition from primary to secondary school for pupils is as smooth as possible.</p><p>We are also determined to ensure that all schools are mindful of their responsibilities towards their pupils and act in accordance with the Children and Families Act 2014 and the statutory Special Educational Needs and Disabilities Code of Practice in ensuring the best possible outcomes for children and young people with special educational needs. All schools should also act in line with their responsibilities under the Equality Act 2010, which in part 6 states that the responsible body of a school must not discriminate against a child or young person: in the arrangements it makes for deciding who is offered admission; the terms on which admission is offered; nor, by not admitting.</p> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 15/06/2016 12:19:47 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
tabling member	1879 label Biography information for Lord Lucas

523015

registered interest
date	06/06/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Free School Meals: Copeland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children living in the Copeland constituency have been eligible to receive free school meals in each of the last six years.
tabling member constituency	Copeland
tabling member printed	Mr Jamie Reed
uin	39296
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/06/2016 answer text <p>Data for the number of pupils eligible for free school meals in each school in England are available in the underlying data in each of the annual ‘Schools, pupils and their characteristics’ statistical releases.[1]</p><p> </p><p>The number and proportion of pupils attending schools in Copeland who were known to be eligible for and claiming free school meals in each of the last six years is given in the table below.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Number of pupils known to be eligible for and claiming free school meals</p></td><td><p>Percentage of pupils known to be eligible for and claiming free school meals</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>1,423</p></td><td><p>12.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>1,420</p></td><td><p>12.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>1,362</p></td><td><p>11.8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>1,395</p></td><td><p>12.3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>1,354</p></td><td><p>12.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>1,253</p></td><td><p>11.1</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: School Census</p><p> </p><p>[1] <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-school-and-pupil-numbers" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-school-and-pupil-numbers</a> - click on the relevant year and then ‘underlying data.’ The data is contained in files with ‘Schools_Pupils’ in the title.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 13/06/2016 14:47:33 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	1503 label Biography information for Mr Jamie Reed

523016

registered interest
date	06/06/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Special Educational Needs: Lancashire
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children with special needs or disabilities are in mainstream schools in (a) Lancashire and (b) Burnley.
tabling member constituency	Burnley
tabling member printed	Julie Cooper
uin	39362
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/06/2016 answer text <p>The number of children with either Special Education Needs (SEN) support, a statement of SEN or an Education, Health and Care (EHC) plan attending mainstream schools in (a) Lancashire and (b) Burnley are shown in the table below. These figures are from the January 2015 school census data. The figures for Lancashire can be found in tables 12 and 13 of the local authority tables which accompany the Special educational needs in England: 2015 publication, available on GOV.UK at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/special-educational-needs-in-england-january-2015" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/special-educational-needs-in-england-january-2015</a>.</p><p>The figures for Burnley can be found in the accompanying underlying data file.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Number of children with either SEN support, a statement of SEN or EHC plan by establishment type</strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p>Lancashire Local Authority</p></td><td><p>Burnley Parliamentary Constituency</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>State funded primary schools</p></td><td><p>12,223</p></td><td><p>1,118</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>State funded secondary schools</p></td><td><p>7,145</p></td><td><p>763</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total</p></td><td><p>19,368</p></td><td><p>1,881</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p><em>Source: schools census 2015.</em> <em>Rounding and suppression are used in the published underlying data file.</em></p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Edward Timpson question first answered 13/06/2016 16:22:24 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	4405 label Biography information for Julie Cooper

523017

registered interest
date	06/06/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Breakfast Clubs: Lancashire
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many school breakfast clubs there are in (a) Burnley and (b) Lancashire.
tabling member constituency	Burnley
tabling member printed	Julie Cooper
uin	39363
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/06/2016 answer text <p>The most recent results of the <em>Childcare and Early Years Providers Survey</em> suggest that in England in 2013, there were 12,800 before school settings. Of these 1,900 were in the North West. However, it is not possible to identify within this total the number of settings in Burnley and Lancashire.</p><p> </p><p>The findings of the Survey can be found online at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/childcare-and-early-years-providers-survey-2013" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/childcare-and-early-years-providers-survey-2013</a></p><p> </p><p>Later this year we will update the school performance tables and plan to publish alongside them information about all schools’ childcare provision including breakfast clubs.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 15/06/2016 16:01:19 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	4405 label Biography information for Julie Cooper

523018

registered interest
date	06/06/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Teachers: Pre-school Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to increase the number of qualified early years teachers in nurseries.
tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
uin	39347
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/06/2016 answer text <p>The department delivers early years initial teacher training places through the National College for Teaching and Leadership. There are four training routes available: undergraduate, assessment only, graduate entry and graduate employment based. To encourage take up, the Department funds course fees, pays bursaries to eligible trainees on the graduate entry route and provides financial support to employers for those trainees on the graduate employment based route.</p><p> </p><p>As part of our thinking on the early years workforce strategy we will be considering how best to continue to grow the graduate workforce, including supporting improved career progression.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 09/06/2016 15:27:10 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

522474

registered interest
date	03/06/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Homelessness: Children in Care
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children have been taken into local authority care in each of the last three years as a result of a decision by a local authority that their parents have made themselves intentionally homeless by accruing rent arrears.
tabling member constituency	Stretford and Urmston
tabling member printed	Kate Green
uin	38961
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/06/2016 answer text <p>The information requested is not available.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Edward Timpson question first answered 13/06/2016 16:24:30 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	4120 label Biography information for Kate Green

522503

registered interest
date	03/06/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Day Care
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what guidance her Department provides on the level of fees a local authority may charge to administer the per nursery pupil payment for the provision of 30 hours free childcare.
tabling member constituency	Solihull
tabling member printed	Julian Knight
uin	39273
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/06/2016 answer text <p>Local authorities are permitted to make deductions for administration costs from their Dedicated Schools Grant early years allocations. We expect local authorities to keep these costs to a minimum and are clear, in our Early Education and Childcare statutory guidance, that they should maximise the funding that is passed to providers. The rates of funding that local authorities pay to providers, as well as the amounts they retain centrally, are published in our early years funding benchmarking tool which can be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/early-years-benchmarking-tool" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/early-years-benchmarking-tool</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 08/06/2016 15:11:54 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	4410 label Biography information for Julian Knight

522504

registered interest
date	03/06/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Day Care
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether the per pupil fee for the planned introduction of 30 hours free childcare will be the same for each local authority.
tabling member constituency	Solihull
tabling member printed	Julian Knight
uin	39275
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/06/2016 answer text <p>At the Spending Review we announced the average funding rates will be increased as we promised during the General Election campaign. The new rates will be £4.88 for 3- and 4-year-olds and £5.39 for 2-year-olds. The Childcare Review has provided strong evidence that provider costs vary substantially across different parts of the country. There is therefore a strong rationale for varying funding rates between areas. We know, however, that there are historical inconsistencies and inefficiencies with the current funding system for 3- and 4-year-olds. We will introduce a national funding formula for early years so that funding is transparently and fairly matched to need and fairly distributed between different types of providers and different parts of the country.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 13/06/2016 14:35:00 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	4410 label Biography information for Julian Knight

522505

registered interest
date	03/06/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Day Care
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will estimate the number of children in Solihull constituency that would be currently eligible for 30 hours free childcare.
tabling member constituency	Solihull
tabling member printed	Julian Knight
uin	39269
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/06/2016 answer text <p>We will publish figures for individual local authorities in due course.</p><p> </p><p>We can confirm that the additional 15 hours will be available to families where both parents are working (or the sole parent is working in a lone parent family), with each parent earning a weekly minimum equivalent to 16 hours at national minimum wage or living wage. Working will include employed and self-employed parents.</p><p> </p><p>In general families where one parent does not work (or neither parent works) will not be eligible for these additional hours. However, we intend to make provision so that parents in certain circumstances will be regarded as being in work. This includes in the case of couple families where one parent is in receipt of benefits relating to caring responsibilities or a disability, and those on parental leave. More information is set out in the December 2015 Policy Statement, which is available online at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/childcare-bill-policy-statement" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/childcare-bill-policy-statement</a></p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 13/06/2016 14:36:13 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	4410 label Biography information for Julian Knight

522506

registered interest
date	03/06/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Day Care
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate her Department has made of the proportion of (a) private, (b) voluntary and (c) independent nurseries which will provide the additional 15 hours of childcare under the provisions of the Childcare Act 2016.
tabling member constituency	Rochdale
tabling member printed	Simon Danczuk
uin	39245
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/06/2016 answer text <p>The Department for Education publishes data on the number of children benefitting from funded early education places by type of provider and local authority. The latest information can be found in the Statistical First Release <em>Provision for children under five years of age in England</em>: January 2015 (SFR20/2015).</p><p> </p><p>As part of our ongoing development of our 30 hours implementation plans we are consulting extensively with key stakeholders, including representative organisations and other individual providers.</p><p> </p><p>The government will continue to support the growth and creation of new places to deliver the 30 hours funded entitlement through investing at least £50 million of capital investment to support the creation of additional early years places. This is in addition to our commitment to capital funding to create nursery provision as part of new Free Schools which we estimate will create at least 4,000 places.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 13/06/2016 14:40:23 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	4059 label Biography information for Simon Danczuk