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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

523019

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	Children: Day Care
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment she has made of the level of affordability of childcare.
tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
uin	39348
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/06/2016 answer text <p>The Government uses a range of information from a number of different sources to consider the affordability of childcare, including: 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>), 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 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>).</p><p> </p><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 £1 billion per annum by 2019-20 to help hardworking families with the cost of childcare. Since 2008 nursery costs have been increasing well above inflation, but the latest survey from the Family and Childcare Trust suggests that the nursery costs of childcare in England for both under and over two-year-olds have remained largely flat across all settings in the last year.</p><p> </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. From September 2017, we will go further, delivering an additional 15 hours of free childcare for the working parents of three- and four-year olds (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> </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> </p><p>For working parents on low and middle incomes, working tax credit pays up to 70% of their childcare costs and, as of April 2016, this has increased to 85% under Universal Credit. 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 09/06/2016 15:29:42 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

523028

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	Pupils: Languages
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what were the 10 foreign languages most spoken by pupils for whom English is listed as an additional language in the annual school census in (a) 2000 and (b) 2015; and how many pupils were recorded as speaking each of those languages in each of those years.
tabling member constituency	Hazel Grove
tabling member printed	William Wragg
uin	39310
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2016 answer text <p>The Department does not hold pupil level data on languages for the year 2000. In the January 2015 school census, the most common languages to which pupils of compulsory school age and above are exposed outside school and the number and proportion of pupils exposed to them are given in the table below.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Language</p></td><td><p>Number of Pupils (1)</p></td><td><p>Percentage of all pupils</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>English</p></td><td><p>5,634,349</p></td><td><p>82.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Urdu</p></td><td><p>123,530</p></td><td><p>1.8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Panjabi</p></td><td><p>91,406</p></td><td><p>1.3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Polish</p></td><td><p>90,506</p></td><td><p>1.3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Other than English (not specified)</p></td><td><p>84,139</p></td><td><p>1.2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bengali</p></td><td><p>74,635</p></td><td><p>1.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Somali</p></td><td><p>46,361</p></td><td><p>0.7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Arabic</p></td><td><p>41,951</p></td><td><p>0.6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Gujarati</p></td><td><p>40,735</p></td><td><p>0.6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Portuguese</p></td><td><p>29,759</p></td><td><p>0.4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Tamil</p></td><td><p>29,634</p></td><td><p>0.4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Believed to be other than English (not specified)</p></td><td><p>29,221</p></td><td><p>0.4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>French</p></td><td><p>26,290</p></td><td><p>0.4</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: School Census January 2015<br>(1) Includes sole and dual main registered pupils of compulsory school age and above. Includes pupils in all state-funded schools excluding general hospital schools and local authority alternative provision.</p><p> </p><p>The languages recorded in the school census only indicate a pupil’s exposure to a non-English language outside of school. They are not a measure of English speaking proficiency, an indication of the language spoken in school, or a direct measure of immigration.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 07/07/2016 15:07:07 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb previous answer version 2869 answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4429 label Biography information for Mr William Wragg

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