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1146689

registered interest
date	26/09/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Special Educational Needs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department is taking to address the disparity in the provision of SEND support for children between different areas and local authorities in England in the upcoming Review into Support for Children with Special Educational Needs.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	291226
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/10/2019 answer text <p>The department is aware of the disparity which exists in the provision of special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) support between different areas of the country and has taken a number of steps to understand and address the issue.</p><p>For example, we have recently announced an additional £700 million for children with SEND in 2020-21, so every pupil can access the education that is right for them, and none are held back from reaching their potential. This represents an increase of over 11% on the funding available this year, bringing the total high needs funding budget to over £7 billion.</p><p>We are analysing responses to a call for evidence about the SEND and alternative provision financial arrangements in England. This will help us understand how the current available funding is distributed, and what improvements could be made in future.</p><p>We have also asked Ofsted and the Care Quality Commission to inspect all local areas, over a 5 year period, on how effectively they are fulfilling their duties for children and young people with SEND. Where any significant local weaknesses are identified, the department’s SEND advisers work with NHS England to provide tailored support and challenge to the local authority and Clinical Commissioning Groups. They will also signpost them to funded training opportunities and resources delivered by external contractors to maximise their impact. The local areas are revisited by Ofsted and the Care Quality Commission to assess their progress over an 18 month period and the department may initiate formal intervention activities in a local area where necessary.</p><p>On 6 September 2019, the government announced the launch of a cross-cutting review of SEND provision, 5 years on from the launch of Children and Families Act 2014. The review will include education, health and care, and will allow the department to revisit consistency of support across different local areas and consider what further action may be required.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Chippenham answering member printed Michelle Donelan question first answered 03/10/2019 18:00:26 answering member 4530 label Biography information for Michelle Donelan previous answer version 136488 answering member constituency Chippenham answering member printed Michelle Donelan answering member 4530 label Biography information for Michelle Donelan
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1146106

registered interest
date	25/09/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Holiday Activities and Food Programme
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 3 September 2019 to Question 281567 on Children: Day Care, to which constituencies the £9.1 million was allocated.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	290628
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/09/2019 answer text <p>This year, the Department invested £9.1 million to set up local Holiday Activity and Food coordinating organisations in 11 local authority areas. They were responsible for funding and overseeing free holiday clubs so that disadvantaged children in these areas could benefit from high quality provision during the summer holiday. This was a considerable increase from the £2 million that was awarded in 2018. The Department continues to build on its understanding of how free provision can be coordinated and on information about what works in supporting this sector.</p><p>The attached table shows the list of constituencies that benefitted from the Department’s funding through the summer 2019 Holiday Activities and Food programme.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 30/09/2019 16:18:31 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb attachment 1 file name 290628_table_Holiday_and_Food_coordinating_organisations_by_local_authority.doc title 290628_Table
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1146107

registered interest
date	25/09/2019
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, pursuant to the Answer of 24 September 2019 to Question 281570 on Children: Day Care, how many local authority areas did not meet the duty to provide sufficient childcare in the latest period for which data is available.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	290629
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/09/2019 answer text <p>The Department works closely with Childcare Works, our national delivery contractor, to ensure that all local authorities provide sufficient childcare places in order to deliver free early years entitlements. 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. At this time, no local authority has reported that they are unable to meet their duty to provide sufficient places.</p><p>The Department’s Childcare and Early Years Providers Survey collects data on registered early years childcare places, including those in maintained schools and nurseries. Data is available at a national and regional level. A link to the survey can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/childcare-and-early-years-providers-survey-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/childcare-and-early-years-providers-survey-2018</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 30/09/2019 16:26:19 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1146111

registered interest
date	25/09/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Charitable Donations
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 17 July 2019 to Question 278353 on Schools: Charitable Donations, how the income generated by schools is distributed across schools.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	290632
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/09/2019 answer text <p>The Department publishes data on donations and voluntary contributions to schools at national and local level which can be found at the following link: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-local-authority-school-finance-data" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-local-authority-school-finance-data</a>.</p><p>The data set includes school income and expenditure data for the financial years 2009-10 to 2017-18 for local authority-maintained schools, and for the academic years 2011-12 to 2015-16 for academies.</p><p> </p><p>A detailed breakdown by school is available at the following link: <a href="https://schools-financial-benchmarking.service.gov.uk/Help/DataSources" target="_blank">https://schools-financial-benchmarking.service.gov.uk/Help/DataSources</a>.</p><p>The data set includes school income and expenditure data from 2013-14 to 2017-18 for local authority maintained schools and from 2013-14 to 2017-18 for academies. The data is not available at constituency level.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb grouped question UIN 290633 290634 question first answered 30/09/2019 16:15:36 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1146113

registered interest
date	25/09/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Charitable Donations
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 17 July 2019 to Question 278353 on Schools: Charitable Donations, what the income was in cash terms from (a) donations and (b) voluntary funds in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	290633
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/09/2019 answer text <p>The Department publishes data on donations and voluntary contributions to schools at national and local level which can be found at the following link: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-local-authority-school-finance-data" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-local-authority-school-finance-data</a>.</p><p>The data set includes school income and expenditure data for the financial years 2009-10 to 2017-18 for local authority-maintained schools, and for the academic years 2011-12 to 2015-16 for academies.</p><p> </p><p>A detailed breakdown by school is available at the following link: <a href="https://schools-financial-benchmarking.service.gov.uk/Help/DataSources" target="_blank">https://schools-financial-benchmarking.service.gov.uk/Help/DataSources</a>.</p><p>The data set includes school income and expenditure data from 2013-14 to 2017-18 for local authority maintained schools and from 2013-14 to 2017-18 for academies. The data is not available at constituency level.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb grouped question UIN 290632 290634 question first answered 30/09/2019 16:15:37 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1146115

registered interest
date	25/09/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Charitable Donations
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 17 July 2019 to Question 278353 on Schools: Charitable Donations, what the income was in cash terms that was generated by schools in each Parliamentary constituency in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	290634
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/09/2019 answer text <p>The Department publishes data on donations and voluntary contributions to schools at national and local level which can be found at the following link: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-local-authority-school-finance-data" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-local-authority-school-finance-data</a>.</p><p>The data set includes school income and expenditure data for the financial years 2009-10 to 2017-18 for local authority-maintained schools, and for the academic years 2011-12 to 2015-16 for academies.</p><p> </p><p>A detailed breakdown by school is available at the following link: <a href="https://schools-financial-benchmarking.service.gov.uk/Help/DataSources" target="_blank">https://schools-financial-benchmarking.service.gov.uk/Help/DataSources</a>.</p><p>The data set includes school income and expenditure data from 2013-14 to 2017-18 for local authority maintained schools and from 2013-14 to 2017-18 for academies. The data is not available at constituency level.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb grouped question UIN 290632 290633 question first answered 30/09/2019 16:15:37 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1144789

registered interest
date	04/09/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Charitable Donations
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 17 July 2019 to Question 278353 on Schools: Charitable Donations, how the income generated by schools is distributed across schools.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	286618
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2019 answer text <p>It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 09/09/2019 16:56:23 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1144791

registered interest
date	04/09/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Charitable Donations
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 17 July 2019 to Question 278353 on Schools: Charitable Donations, what the income was in cash terms from (a) donations and (b) voluntary funds in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	286619
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2019 answer text <p>It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 09/09/2019 16:57:22 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1141842

registered interest
date	24/07/2019
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, pursuant to the Answer of 23 July 2019 to Question 278350 on Children: Day Care, what additional support his Department provides to low income households that require childcare during the summer holidays.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	281567
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/09/2019 answer text <p>In addition to the support that the former Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Children and Families (Nadhim Zahawi), my hon. Friend for Stratford-on-Avon referred to in the Answer of 23 July to Question 278350, my department’s Holiday Activities and Food programme is exploring ways to help disadvantaged children access free holiday club provision over the summer holidays, in 11 local authority areas, including Birmingham.</p><p>This summer, we have awarded £9.1 million to 11 organisations to explore how the funding and coordination of free holiday club provision at a local level can help more disadvantaged children access provision for free, and support providers to improve their offer. With this money, around 50,000 disadvantaged children and their parents will be able to access free holiday club provision, including a healthy meal and enriching activities.</p><p>The government provides a significant package of childcare support to parents and carers. All 3 and 4 year olds and the most disadvantaged 2 year olds are entitled to receive 15 hours a week of early education for 38 weeks a year. Since 2017, working parents of 3 year olds and 4 year olds have been able to access an additional 15 hours of early education a week, bringing their total to 30 hours a week. The 30 hours policy is worth up to £5,000 a year to families and, since its introduction, around 600,000 children have benefitted. Childcare providers can offer these entitlements stretched across the whole year so that they cover the school holidays.</p><p>In addition, tax-free childcare was introduced in 2017 to support families with the costs of childcare for 0 to 12 year olds. For every £8 that parents pay into an online account, the government will pay £2 - up to a maximum contribution of £2,000 per child each year - for children aged up to 12. Working parents in receipt of Universal Credit can also claim back up to 85% of eligible childcare costs through Universal Credit for children up to the age of 16, subject to a monthly limit of £646 for one child or £1108 for 2 or more children. This will make sure that work pays for families on a low income.</p><p>The government also recently announced an extra £2.5 million next year to help schools open up their facilities at weekends and over the holidays as part of the School Sport Action Plan.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Saffron Walden answering member printed Mrs Kemi Badenoch question first answered 03/09/2019 16:12:51 answering member 4597 label Biography information for Kemi Badenoch
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1141845

registered interest
date	24/07/2019
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, pursuant to the Answer of 23 July 2019 to Question 278350 on Children: Day Care, what support is available for parents of a child with (a) special educational needs and (b) a disability who live in a local authority area which is unable to provide sufficient childcare to meet their needs during the school summer holidays.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	281569
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/09/2019 answer text <p>The former Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Children and Families (Nadhim Zahawi), my hon. Friend for Stratford-on-Avon outlined in the response given to 278350, local authorities are required to secure sufficient childcare in their area, so far as is practicable, for working parents or parents who are studying or training for employment for children aged 0 to 14 (or up to 18 for disabled children).</p><p>If a parent or carer has a concern about the availability of childcare provision in their area, they should contact their local authority directly in the first instance.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Saffron Walden answering member printed Mrs Kemi Badenoch question first answered 03/09/2019 08:30:32 answering member 4597 label Biography information for Kemi Badenoch
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe