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988716

registered interest
date	16/10/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Special Educational Needs: Hearing Impairment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of funding available to local authorities for specialist education services for deaf children.
tabling member constituency	Colne Valley
tabling member printed	Thelma Walker
uin	180286
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2018 answer text <p>We want children with special educational needs and disabilities to be able to reach their full potential.</p><p>Nationally, high needs funding has risen by £1 billion since 2013-14, to just under £6 billion in 2018-19. Allocations for individual local authorities can be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dedicated-schools-grant-dsg-2018-to-2019" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dedicated-schools-grant-dsg-2018-to-2019</a>.</p><p>However, we recognise that costs have increased which is why we are providing extensive support to schools to deliver the best value possible with available resources. This includes a high needs benchmarking tool to allow local authorities to compare their spending in this area.</p><p>We are monitoring the impact of our national funding formula on high needs and are keeping the overall level of funding under review.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 22/10/2018 12:18:20 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4649 label Biography information for Thelma Walker

964173

registered interest
date	03/09/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Foster Care: Care Leavers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the report, Keep on Caring published by the Government in July 2016, when his Department plans to undertake a review the implementation of the policy of staying put.
tabling member constituency	Colne Valley
tabling member printed	Thelma Walker
uin	169796
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2018 answer text <p>The department keeps the Staying Put policy under constant review by monitoring data from local authorities showing take-up amongst young people, engagement with the sector and looking at information from Ofsted inspections of local authorities. Staying Put was also considered as part of the independent fostering review undertaken by Sir Martin Narey and Mark Owers, published in February 2018.</p><p>Staying Put has been welcomed by care leavers and the sector. It is recognised by them as a positive initiative and has helped thousands of care leavers to transition more smoothly from care to independence, providing continuity of relationships and care arrangements. The department will continue to gather information from the national rollout of Staying Put and in light of this, refine policy as required.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 11/09/2018 07:59:56 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4649 label Biography information for Thelma Walker

938644

registered interest
date	11/07/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Foster Care: Care Leavers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether his Department plans to fund Staying Put beyond 2019-20.
tabling member constituency	Colne Valley
tabling member printed	Thelma Walker
uin	163193
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2018 answer text <p>The cross-government care leaver strategy ‘Keep on Caring’ was published in July 2016. This confirmed that funding for Staying Put would continue to be paid to local authorities until the end of the Spending Review period. It also confirmed that the funding would be up-rated by 2% each year to take inflation into account. The amount of funding is therefore £23.3 million for the period 2018 to 2019 and £23.77 million for the period 2019 to 2020. Funding beyond March 2020 will be subject to the outcome of the next Spending Review.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 19/07/2018 17:09:14 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4649 label Biography information for Thelma Walker

905475

registered interest
date	16/05/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Disadvantaged
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of (a) all children and (b) children eligible for free school meals reached a good level of development at the age of five in Colne Valley constituency in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Colne Valley
tabling member printed	Thelma Walker
uin	144980
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/05/2018 answer text <p>The requested data is in the attached table<strong>.</strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 25/05/2018 09:25:16 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi attachment 1 file name 144980_children_achieving_good_level_of_development_in_EY.pdf title children_achieving_good_level_of_development_in_EY
tabling member	4649 label Biography information for Thelma Walker

892306

registered interest
date	26/04/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Department for Education: Plastics
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department has taken to reduce its use of single-use plastics.
tabling member constituency	Colne Valley
tabling member printed	Thelma Walker
uin	138543
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/05/2018 answer text <p>In our 25 Year Environment plan the government outlined a range of measures on how we will reduce the amount of plastic in circulation through reducing demand for single-use plastic. This included a commitment to removing all consumer single use plastics from the central government estate offices.</p><p> </p><p>At the Department for Education, in our London headquarters, we have already replaced all single-use plastic coffee cups and food containers from our catering services, with compostable alternatives. We have also replaced plastic water cups with compostable versions.</p><p> </p><p>We will continue to work with the Department for Environment, Food &amp; Rural Affairs and our suppliers to remove single-use plastics from our office estate.</p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton question first answered 03/05/2018 15:55:06 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
tabling member	4649 label Biography information for Thelma Walker

872752

registered interest
date	27/03/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pupils: Period Poverty
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of providing sanitary products to girls in receipt of free school meals.
tabling member constituency	Colne Valley
tabling member printed	Thelma Walker
uin	134565
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/04/2018 answer text <p>Our current Sex and Relationships Education guidance encourages schools to make adequate and sensitive arrangements to help girls cope with menstruation. Schools have discretion over how they use their funding and can make sanitary products available to pupils if they identify this as a barrier to attainment or attendance. We support schools in addressing the needs of disadvantaged pupils through the provision of the Pupil Premium, equivalent to almost £2.5 billion of additional funding this year alone.</p><p> </p><p>We are committed to ensuring that any action to support disadvantaged pupils is based on robust evidence. We have sought to establish whether there has been any rigorous national assessment of the prevalence of period poverty or its impact on attendance, however none appears available. We reached out to school stakeholders in July 2017 through the Association of School and College Leaders forum asking for contributions on the issue and received a very limited response. As promised in the House, we have reviewed our absence statistics and our recently published analysis shows no evidence that period poverty has a significant nation-wide impact on school attendance. We do want to find out more; this is why we intend to place questions on these issues in the department’s 2018 surveys for pupils and senior school leaders.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 05/04/2018 16:24:50 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4649 label Biography information for Thelma Walker

838583

registered interest
date	07/02/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Educational Institutions: Counselling
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary for Education, what plans his Department has to introduce a counselling service in all (a) schools and (b) colleges.
tabling member constituency	Colne Valley
tabling member printed	Thelma Walker
uin	127403
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2018 answer text <p>The Government recognises the value of school-based counselling but schools are best placed to make decisions on the most appropriate support to provide for their pupils, including school-based counselling. 61 per cent of schools and colleges already provide access to counselling services, including 84 per cent of secondary schools. To support more schools to do so the Government has published a blueprint for school counselling services. This provides practical, evidence-based advice on how to deliver high quality school-based counselling to all pupils. <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/counselling-in-schools" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/counselling-in-schools</a>.</p><p>The Government is consulting on the green paper Transforming Children and Young People’s Mental Health Services. It includes proposals to introduce new Mental Health Support Teams to complement existing mental health provision, including school-based counselling.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 22/02/2018 17:38:02 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4649 label Biography information for Thelma Walker

834387

registered interest
date	31/01/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Office for Students
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 25 January 2018 to Question 123365 on Office for Students, whether the selection criteria for the Office for Student’s student panel included a specific requirement in to appoint a disabled student.
tabling member constituency	Colne Valley
tabling member printed	Thelma Walker
uin	126006
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2018 answer text <p>Decisions regarding the appointments to the Student Panel are the responsibility of the Office for Students.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 08/02/2018 17:57:09 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	4649 label Biography information for Thelma Walker

824564

registered interest
date	17/01/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Office for Students
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what representation of disabled students there will be on the Office for Students' Student Panel.
tabling member constituency	Colne Valley
tabling member printed	Thelma Walker
uin	123365
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2018 answer text <p>The student panel has been appointed by the Office for Students (OfS) and will play an important role in advising the OfS. Membership of the panel includes representatives of students from a wide variety of backgrounds and experiences. The announcement of the panel was made on 7 January and can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://medium.com/@n.dandridge/new-student-panel-appointed-to-advise-office-for-students-press-release-4b77ebb2769c" target="_blank">https://medium.com/@n.dandridge/new-student-panel-appointed-to-advise-office-for-students-press-release-4b77ebb2769c</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 25/01/2018 16:26:46 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	4649 label Biography information for Thelma Walker

823653

registered interest
date	16/01/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pre-school Education: Special Educational Needs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans his Department has to review funding streams for children who are not of reception age to access additional support services whilst at nursery.
tabling member constituency	Colne Valley
tabling member printed	Thelma Walker
uin	123109
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/01/2018 answer text <p>Funding for children’s services is part of the wider local government finance settlement. The Spending Review in 2015 made available more than £200 billion to councils for local services, including children’s services, up to 2019-20.</p><p> </p><p>By 2019-20 we will be spending around £6 billion on childcare support. This includes, for example, the Disability Access Fund.</p><p> </p><p>Budgets after 2019-20 will be set at the next Spending Review.</p><p><strong><br> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 24/01/2018 15:41:01 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4649 label Biography information for Thelma Walker