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431380

registered interest
date	20/11/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Primary Education: Free School Meals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department is undertaking of the effect on children's (a) attainment, (b) health and (c) attendance of the universal infant free school meals policy.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	17131
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/11/2015 answer text <p>The decision to introduce universal infant free school meals (UIFSM) was based on pilots of universal free school meals carried out between 2009 and 2011 in Newham and Durham. The pilots demonstrated benefits in terms of children’s health, attainment and behaviour, as well as helping families with the cost of living.</p><br /><p>The UIFSM policy has been in place for just over a year. We will look carefully at a range of indicators in relation to UIFSM once we are satisfied that we have sufficient time series data to undertake a robust analysis.</p><br /> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 30/11/2015 16:42:05 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

425674

registered interest
date	03/11/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pupils: Disadvantaged
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much public funding has been spent by Magic Breakfast in each parliamentary constituency to date.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	14580
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/11/2015 answer text <p>Magic Breakfast currently receive central government funding from a contract with the Department for Education. The objective of the project is to set up and run 184 breakfast clubs in schools where 35% or more children are eligible for free school meals, to ensure that children are fed and are at school on time and ready to learn. Magic Breakfast are required to develop plans to enable the breakfast clubs to be self-sustaining beyond the contract period. The project is being externally evaluated.</p><br /><p>The value of the contract is £1.087m, of which £518,523 has so far been paid. This is the only central government funding currently provided to Magic Breakfast in England. Any funding in Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland would be a matter for the relevant governments. The Department does not hold a breakdown of contract expenditure by parliamentary constituency.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah grouped question UIN 14581 question first answered 06/11/2015 11:57:25 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

425675

registered interest
date	03/11/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pupils: Disadvantaged
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much from the public purse has been distributed in the UK by Magic Breakfast; and what objectives have been set for that expenditure.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	14581
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/11/2015 answer text <p>Magic Breakfast currently receive central government funding from a contract with the Department for Education. The objective of the project is to set up and run 184 breakfast clubs in schools where 35% or more children are eligible for free school meals, to ensure that children are fed and are at school on time and ready to learn. Magic Breakfast are required to develop plans to enable the breakfast clubs to be self-sustaining beyond the contract period. The project is being externally evaluated.</p><br /><p>The value of the contract is £1.087m, of which £518,523 has so far been paid. This is the only central government funding currently provided to Magic Breakfast in England. Any funding in Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland would be a matter for the relevant governments. The Department does not hold a breakdown of contract expenditure by parliamentary constituency.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah grouped question UIN 14580 question first answered 06/11/2015 11:57:25 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

425091

registered interest
date	30/10/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Teachers: Training
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of teacher training degrees incorporate modules on working with children aged 0 to 5 years.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	14154
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/11/2015 answer text <p>Early Years Initial Teacher Training was introduced in 2013. Early Years Teachers are specialists in early childhood development, trained to work with babies and young children from birth to five. Early Years Initial Teacher Training trainees who successfully meet the Teachers’ Standards (Early Years) are awarded Early Years Teacher Status. All modules of Early Years Initial Teacher Training courses include working with children aged 0 to 5 years. All initial teacher training courses that lead to the award of Qualified Teacher Status also cover the 3 to 18 age range.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 09/11/2015 16:31:59 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

421915

registered interest
date	16/10/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Free School Meals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children are entitled to receive free school meals but do not receive them.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	12185
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2015 answer text <p>The January 2015 census recorded that there were 2,755,021 children registered for free school meals (FSM). We do not hold information on the number of FSM entitled pupils who did not receive a school meal.</p><br /><p>Further information is available in the link below:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/schools-pupils-and-their-characteristics-january-2015" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/schools-pupils-and-their-characteristics-january-2015</a></p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 21/10/2015 16:02:34 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

421352

registered interest
date	14/10/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Free School Meals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of how many children are entitled to but not registered to receive free school meals.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	11930
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2015 answer text <p>The latest research carried out by the Department for Education indicates that under-registration for free school meals fell from 14% (197,700) in 2012 to 11% (161,400) in 2013. The research is available at: <a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/266339/DFE-RR319.pdf" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/266339/DFE-RR319.pdf</a></p><br /><p>The January 2015 census data was published in the department’s 2015 Schools, Pupils and their Characteristics statistical first release (June 2015), available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/schools-pupils-and-their-characteristics-january-2015" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/schools-pupils-and-their-characteristics-january-2015</a>. The relevant statistics are at Table 3d of the underlying national data tables.</p><br /><p>Pupil premium funding is based on whether pupils have been registered for benefits-related free school meals at any point in the last six years and not only those who are currently registered.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah grouped question UIN 11931 question first answered 19/10/2015 16:16:47 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

421353

registered interest
date	14/10/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Primary Education: Free School Meals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children receiving universal infant free school meals are not registered as free school meal the purposes of pupils for the purposes of pupil premium funding.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	11931
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2015 answer text <p>The latest research carried out by the Department for Education indicates that under-registration for free school meals fell from 14% (197,700) in 2012 to 11% (161,400) in 2013. The research is available at: <a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/266339/DFE-RR319.pdf" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/266339/DFE-RR319.pdf</a></p><br /><p>The January 2015 census data was published in the department’s 2015 Schools, Pupils and their Characteristics statistical first release (June 2015), available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/schools-pupils-and-their-characteristics-january-2015" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/schools-pupils-and-their-characteristics-january-2015</a>. The relevant statistics are at Table 3d of the underlying national data tables.</p><br /><p>Pupil premium funding is based on whether pupils have been registered for benefits-related free school meals at any point in the last six years and not only those who are currently registered.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah grouped question UIN 11930 question first answered 19/10/2015 16:16:48 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

419947

registered interest
date	09/10/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Free School Meals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the annual cost is of providing free school meals on schools; and what proportion of this sum is spent on universal infant free school meals.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	10931
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/10/2015 answer text <p>The Department for Education does not hold information on the annual cost of providing benefits-based free school meals (FSM). It allocates the Dedicated Schools Grant (DSG) to local authorities on a per pupil basis. Local authorities distribute DSG to schools on the basis of a local formula, in which FSM can be used as a proxy for deprivation. It is then for schools to decide how to use their budget, including how much to allocate to pay for benefits-based free school meals.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 15/10/2015 15:41:19 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

418884

registered interest
date	15/09/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pupils: Disadvantaged
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department has taken to monitor the use by Magic Breakfast of monies received from the Fund for European Aid to the Most Deprived; and what assessment her Department has made of how, where and when the assistance for school pupils resulting from this funding has been distributed.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	10388
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/10/2015 answer text <p>The Department for Education’s current contract with Magic Breakfast does not include monies from the Fund for European Aid to the Most Deprived (FEAD).</p><p>Magic Breakfast are contracted to set up and run sustainable breakfast clubs in 184 schools where the free school meal take up is 35% or higher. This contract runs until March 2016. The prospective FEAD funding is separate, and we are currently exploring options for the use of the funding to support the establishment of additional breakfast clubs in deprived areas.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 12/10/2015 10:55:20 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead