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451170

registered interest
date	08/02/2016
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 assessment she has made of the effect of super centres on smaller, privately-funded child care businesses located close to them.
tabling member constituency	Tewkesbury
tabling member printed	Mr Laurence Robertson
uin	26253
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2016 answer text <p>There is a duty on local authorities to judge what provision is appropriate to meet local needs in their areas. An overarching statutory framework places a legal duty on local authorities to have arrangements in place to secure sufficient children’s centres to meet local need and to consult where changes are planned to local children’s centre provision.</p><p>In deciding what arrangements to make, local authorities must have particular regard to the quality and quantity of early childhood services in the area. Local authorities are best placed to understand local needs and the different ways children and families can be supported locally.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 11/02/2016 10:10:21 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	253 label Biography information for Mr Laurence Robertson

451240

registered interest
date	08/02/2016
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 additional funding her Department plans to make available to small childcare facilities to help them meet the costs of the proposed free 30 hours of childcare per week.
tabling member constituency	Tewkesbury
tabling member printed	Mr Laurence Robertson
uin	26280
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2016 answer text <p>As part of the Spending Review in November 2015, we announced that we will be investing over £1billion more per year by 2019-20 to fund the government’s commitments on the early education entitlements. The funding includes £300 million per year for a significant increase to the rate paid for the two, three and four year old entitlements. From April 2017, the national average funding rates will increase to £4.88 for three and four year olds and £5.39 for two year olds. Local authorities are responsible for deciding how to distribute this funding across their area and for setting the rate paid to early years providers.</p><p>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. We will be consulting on detailed proposals later this year.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 11/02/2016 10:10:39 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	253 label Biography information for Mr Laurence Robertson

450721

registered interest
date	04/02/2016
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, how many state registered foster carers her Department estimates will be eligible for the Government's proposed free 30 hours of childcare.
tabling member constituency	Great Grimsby
tabling member printed	Melanie Onn
uin	25895
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2016 answer text <p>Foster carers will be able to access the existing 15 hour early education entitlement for three-and four-year olds for both their foster children and their own children. In addition, two year olds who are looked after by a local council or have left care under a special guardianship order, child arrangements order or adoption order are also entitled to 15 hours of early education.</p><p>Foster carers will be able to access the extended entitlement for three-and four-year olds for their own children provided that they meet the minimum income requirement. This means that foster parents should be earning the equivalent to 16 hours a week at National Minimum or Living Wage and their income should not exceed £100,000. This includes employed and self-employed parents.</p><p>Since foster carers are separately funded for the care of foster children, they will not be able to access the extended entitlement for their foster children. This is in line with the treatment of foster carers under Tax-Free Childcare, tax credits and Universal Credit.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Edward Timpson question first answered 09/02/2016 15:11:45 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	4464 label Biography information for Melanie Onn

450725

registered interest
date	04/02/2016
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, how many paid carers her Department estimates will be eligible for the Government's proposed free 30 hours of childcare.
tabling member constituency	Great Grimsby
tabling member printed	Melanie Onn
uin	25893
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2016 answer text <p>The extended entitlement is intended to support working parents with the cost of childcare, enabling them to return to work or work additional hours if they wish to do so. Families where both parents work or one parent works in a single parent household will be eligible for these additional hours. In recognition of the particular challenges that paid carers can face in relation to childcare, the Childcare Bill allows for parents in certain circumstances to be regarded as being in work, for example, those parents who have caring responsibilities.</p><p>Households where one parent is working and one parent is being paid Carer’s Allowance or Universal Credit’s Carer Element will be able to access the extended entitlement provided the working parent meets the income eligibility requirements. This includes households where a parent is caring for their own three or four year old child where the child is in receipt of Disability Living Allowance or is certified blind.</p><p>In relation to single parents with a disabled child, where that parent meets the income eligibility requirements, they will also be able to access the extended entitlement. Parents who do not work will continue to receive Carer’s Allowance or Universal Credit.</p><p>It is also important to remember that all paid carers will be able to access the existing 15 hour early education entitlement for three and four year olds and the 15 hour early education entitlement for two year olds if they meet the eligibility criteria. More detail can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/help-with-childcare-costs/free-childcare-and-education-for-2-to-4-year-olds" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/help-with-childcare-costs/free-childcare-and-education-for-2-to-4-year-olds</a></p><p>The Department does not hold information on the number of households with three or four year old children where one partner (or the sole parent in a lone parent family) meets the income eligibility criteria and is in receipt of benefits relating to caring responsibilities.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 09/02/2016 15:15:50 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	4464 label Biography information for Melanie Onn

450726

registered interest
date	04/02/2016
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, how many kinship carers her Department estimates will be eligible for the Government's proposed free 30 hours of childcare.
tabling member constituency	Great Grimsby
tabling member printed	Melanie Onn
uin	25894
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/02/2016 answer text <p>Kinship carers will be able to access the existing 15 hour early education entitlement for any three and four year old children in their care. In addition, two year olds who are looked after by a local council or have left care under a special guardianship order, child arrangements order or adoption order are entitled to 15 hours per week of early education.</p><p>In respect of the extended entitlement for three and four year olds, kinship carers who have parental responsibility for the child will be able to access the extended entitlement provided that they are earning the equivalent to 16 hours a week at National Minimum or Living Wage and their income does not exceed £100,000. This includes employed and self-employed kinship carers.</p><p>The Department does not hold information on the number of kinship carers who would meet the income eligibility criteria and who have three or four year old children.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 10/02/2016 16:27:22 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	4464 label Biography information for Melanie Onn

449807

registered interest
date	02/02/2016
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 make it her policy to include single parents who are in full-time employment in the extension of free childcare to 30 hours per week.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	25348
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2016 answer text <p>Single parents will be able to access the extended entitlement in the same way as two parent households. A single parent will need to earn a weekly minimum equivalent to 16 hours at national minimum wage or living wage. In addition, their income should not exceed £100,000. This will include employed and self-employed parents.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 05/02/2016 14:31:30 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

447214

registered interest
date	25/01/2016
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, how many childcare places there were in each London borough on 1 January of each year from 2010 to 2016.
tabling member constituency	Tooting
tabling member printed	Sadiq Khan
uin	23844
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2016 answer text <p>Local authorities are required to report annually to elected council members on how they are meeting their duty to secure sufficient childcare, and make this report available and accessible to parents. The Department does not hold borough level estimates centrally.</p><p>The Department for Education’s Childcare and Early Years Providers Survey[1] collects data on all registered childcare places, including those in maintained schools and nurseries. However, data is only available at a national and regional level.</p><br /><p>[1] <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> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah grouped question UIN 23845 question first answered 28/01/2016 13:13:36 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	1577 label Biography information for Sadiq Khan

447215

registered interest
date	25/01/2016
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 (a) surplus and (b) shortfall in childcare places in each London borough on 1 January of each year from 2010 to 2016.
tabling member constituency	Tooting
tabling member printed	Sadiq Khan
uin	23845
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2016 answer text <p>Local authorities are required to report annually to elected council members on how they are meeting their duty to secure sufficient childcare, and make this report available and accessible to parents. The Department does not hold borough level estimates centrally.</p><p>The Department for Education’s Childcare and Early Years Providers Survey[1] collects data on all registered childcare places, including those in maintained schools and nurseries. However, data is only available at a national and regional level.</p><br /><p>[1] <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> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah grouped question UIN 23844 question first answered 28/01/2016 13:13:36 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	1577 label Biography information for Sadiq Khan

447351

registered interest
date	25/01/2016
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 the average (a) monthly and (b) annual cost of childcare per household was in (i) England and Wales, (ii) London and (iii) each London borough in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Tooting
tabling member printed	Sadiq Khan
uin	23916
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2016 answer text <p>The Government uses a range of information from a number of difference sources to consider the affordability of childcare including:</p><ul><li>Our ‘childcare and early years survey of parents’ (<a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/childcare-and-early-years-survey-of-parents-2012-to-2013" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/statistics/childcare-and-early-years-survey-of-parents-2012-to-2013</a>);</li><li>Independent surveys, such as the Family and Childcare Trust Annual Childcare Cost Surveys (<a href="http://www.familyandchildcaretrust.org/childcare-cost-survey-2015" target="_blank">www.familyandchildcaretrust.org/childcare-cost-survey-2015</a>); and</li><li>The recent House of Lords Select Committee’s report on affordable childcare – to which we responded on 17 December, 2015 (<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/affordable-childcare-response-to-the-select-committee-report" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/affordable-childcare-response-to-the-select-committee-report</a>).</li></ul><p>We are committed to supporting hard-working parents with the costs of childcare and to make it more affordable. That is why we will be investing an extra £1billion per annum by 2019-20 to help hardworking families with the cost of childcare.</p><p>We are already funding 15 hours a week of free early education for all three- and four-year-olds and for disadvantaged two-year-olds – this saves families around £2,500 per child per year. Through our Childcare Bill we are making plans to fund and deliver an additional 15 hours of free childcare for the working parents of three- and four-year olds from September 2017 (with early implementation in some areas from September 2016) – worth around another £2,500 per child per year. We also continue to invest in the Early Years Pupil Premium.</p><p>We are also introducing Tax-Free Childcare from early 2017, under which around 2 million families could benefit by up to £2,000 per child per year or £4,000 per child per year if a child is disabled.</p><p>For working parents on low and middle incomes, working tax credit pays up to 70% of their childcare costs and this will increase to 85% under Universal Credit from April 2016. This support will be available, for the first time, to those working fewer than 16 hours per week.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 28/01/2016 13:16:39 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	1577 label Biography information for Sadiq Khan

447360

registered interest
date	25/01/2016
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, how many complaints of each type her Department (a) received and (b) upheld against childcare providers in (i) England and Wales, (ii) London and (iii) each London borough in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Tooting
tabling member printed	Sadiq Khan
uin	24055
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2016 answer text <p>Ofsted, as the regulator for childcare providers in England, is responsible for considering and responding to complaints about them and Her Majesty's Chief Inspector will be writing to the hon. Member about this. A copy of that letter will be placed in the Library of the House.</p><p>Responsibility for childcare in Wales is a devolved matter and it would be for the Welsh Government and Care and Social Services Inspectorate Wales to respond. Their contact address is Care and Social Services Inspectorate National Office, Welsh Government office, Rhydycar Business Park, Merthyr Tydfil, CF48 1UZ or cssiw@wales.gsi.gov.uk.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 28/01/2016 13:12:10 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	1577 label Biography information for Sadiq Khan