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931830

	registered interest
	date	27/06/2018
	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 households are eligible for 15 hours of free childcare for two-year-old children in each English region; how many households have applied to that scheme since that scheme was introduced; how many of those households have been accepted; and how many households have received 15 hour free childcare two-year-old in the most recent period for which figures are available.
	tabling member constituency	Tonbridge and Malling
	tabling member printed	Tom Tugendhat
	uin	158281
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/07/2018 answer text <p>15 hours of free early years education for disadvantaged 2 year olds was introduced in September 2013.</p><p>The number of 2 year olds eligible was extended in September 2014 to children in low-income families, children with a statement of Special Educational Needs or an Education, Health and Care Plan, children in receipt of Disability Living Allowance and children who are no longer looked after by a local authority as a result of an adoption order, a special guardianship order or a child arrangements order which specifies who the child will live with. In April 2018, the eligibility criteria for which 2 year olds can benefit from a funded early education place were changed to reflect the introduction and roll-out of Universal Credit.</p><p>The number of eligible 2 year olds and the number of 2 year olds benefitting from up to 15 hours’ funded early education are shown in the table. The number of households who applied and the number of households who were successful are not available. This is because data is not collected per household, and therefore the number of households who applied and the number of households who were successful cannot be provided. Figures dating back to 2014 can be found in the ‘Provision for children under 5 years of age in England, January 2018’ statistics publication which was published on 28 June 2018. This is available here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/education-provision-children-under-5-years-of-age-january-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/education-provision-children-under-5-years-of-age-january-2018</a>.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="3"><p><strong>Number of 2-year-old children<sup>1</sup> eligible <br></strong><strong>and number benefitting from up to 15 hours<br></strong><strong>funded early education<strong> at </strong><strong>January 2018</strong>, by region </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Number eligible<sup>2</sup></p></td><td><p>Number benefitting</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>England</p></td><td><p>215,900</p></td><td><p>154,960</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North East</p></td><td><p>12,200</p></td><td><p>10,270</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North West</p></td><td><p>30,700</p></td><td><p>25,480</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Yorkshire and The Humber</p></td><td><p>25,800</p></td><td><p>18,870</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East Midlands</p></td><td><p>18,300</p></td><td><p>12,210</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West Midlands</p></td><td><p>28,100</p></td><td><p>19,020</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East of England</p></td><td><p>19,900</p></td><td><p>13,980</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>London</p></td><td><p>39,300</p></td><td><p>24,150</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South East</p></td><td><p>25,800</p></td><td><p>18,020</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South West</p></td><td><p>15,600</p></td><td><p>12,960</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: Early Years Census, School Census and School Level Annual School Census</p><p>(1) Count of children aged 2 at 31 December in the previous calendar year.</p><p>(2) Universal Credit is being rolled out throughout the country on a staged basis. Eligibility criteria for funded education for 2 year-olds includes those children whose parents are in receipt of Universal Credit in 2018, however the numbers are estimated to be small and these children are not included in the eligibility estimates. Children of Universal Credit claimants will be included in future years.</p><p>Numbers of children eligible have been rounded to the nearest 100 and numbers benefitting have been rounded to the nearest 10.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 158282 question first answered 04/07/2018 15:19:21 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
	tabling member	4462 label Biography information for Tom Tugendhat

931832

	registered interest
	date	27/06/2018
	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 households are eligible for free education and childcare for two-year-old children in each English region; how many households have applied to that scheme since that scheme was introduced; how many of those households have been accepted; and how many households have received free education and childcare for two-year-old children in the most recent period for which figures are available.
	tabling member constituency	Tonbridge and Malling
	tabling member printed	Tom Tugendhat
	uin	158282
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/07/2018 answer text <p>15 hours of free early years education for disadvantaged 2 year olds was introduced in September 2013.</p><p>The number of 2 year olds eligible was extended in September 2014 to children in low-income families, children with a statement of Special Educational Needs or an Education, Health and Care Plan, children in receipt of Disability Living Allowance and children who are no longer looked after by a local authority as a result of an adoption order, a special guardianship order or a child arrangements order which specifies who the child will live with. In April 2018, the eligibility criteria for which 2 year olds can benefit from a funded early education place were changed to reflect the introduction and roll-out of Universal Credit.</p><p>The number of eligible 2 year olds and the number of 2 year olds benefitting from up to 15 hours’ funded early education are shown in the table. The number of households who applied and the number of households who were successful are not available. This is because data is not collected per household, and therefore the number of households who applied and the number of households who were successful cannot be provided. Figures dating back to 2014 can be found in the ‘Provision for children under 5 years of age in England, January 2018’ statistics publication which was published on 28 June 2018. This is available here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/education-provision-children-under-5-years-of-age-january-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/education-provision-children-under-5-years-of-age-january-2018</a>.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="3"><p><strong>Number of 2-year-old children<sup>1</sup> eligible <br></strong><strong>and number benefitting from up to 15 hours<br></strong><strong>funded early education<strong> at </strong><strong>January 2018</strong>, by region </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Number eligible<sup>2</sup></p></td><td><p>Number benefitting</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>England</p></td><td><p>215,900</p></td><td><p>154,960</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North East</p></td><td><p>12,200</p></td><td><p>10,270</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North West</p></td><td><p>30,700</p></td><td><p>25,480</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Yorkshire and The Humber</p></td><td><p>25,800</p></td><td><p>18,870</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East Midlands</p></td><td><p>18,300</p></td><td><p>12,210</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West Midlands</p></td><td><p>28,100</p></td><td><p>19,020</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East of England</p></td><td><p>19,900</p></td><td><p>13,980</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>London</p></td><td><p>39,300</p></td><td><p>24,150</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South East</p></td><td><p>25,800</p></td><td><p>18,020</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South West</p></td><td><p>15,600</p></td><td><p>12,960</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: Early Years Census, School Census and School Level Annual School Census</p><p>(1) Count of children aged 2 at 31 December in the previous calendar year.</p><p>(2) Universal Credit is being rolled out throughout the country on a staged basis. Eligibility criteria for funded education for 2 year-olds includes those children whose parents are in receipt of Universal Credit in 2018, however the numbers are estimated to be small and these children are not included in the eligibility estimates. Children of Universal Credit claimants will be included in future years.</p><p>Numbers of children eligible have been rounded to the nearest 100 and numbers benefitting have been rounded to the nearest 10.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 158281 question first answered 04/07/2018 15:19:21 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
	tabling member	4462 label Biography information for Tom Tugendhat

868399

	registered interest
	date	21/03/2018
	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 16 March 2018 to Question 132418 on Children: Day Care, what estimate he has made of the proportion of children that are not eligible for the 30 hours of tax free childcare as a result of a household income being (a) too high and (b) too low.
	tabling member constituency	Batley and Spen
	tabling member printed	Tracy Brabin
	uin	133619
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2018 answer text <p>30 hours free childcare is available to working parents of three and four year olds and eligibility is based on parental income.</p><p> </p><p>A three or four year old is eligible for 30 hours free childcare if both their parents, or the sole parent in a lone parent family, expects to earn a weekly minimum equivalent to working 16 hours at national minimum or living wage and under £100,000 a year.</p><p> </p><p>We estimate that 58% of three and four year olds are not eligible for 30 hours because either only one of their parents is employed or because their parent(s) do not meet the required minimum income threshold.</p><p> </p><p>We estimate that less than 1% of three and four year olds are not eligible, even though both parents are employed and meet the required minimum threshold, because at least one of their parents expects to earn £100,000 or more per year.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 26/03/2018 16:21:20 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
	tabling member	4588 label Biography information for Tracy Brabin

971705

	registered interest
	date	11/09/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Carillion: Apprentices
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the oral contribution of the Minister for Apprenticeships and Skills of 10 September 2018, Official Report, column 456, how many construction apprentices employed by Carillion were made redundant in July 2018; and what steps the Government is taking to support those people.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley East
	tabling member printed	Stephanie Peacock
	uin	173627
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2018 answer text <p>341 Carillion apprentices who were unable to find new jobs at the end of July 2018 have been made redundant.</p><p> </p><p>Every effort was made to support the apprentices to find new jobs. When Carillion went into liquidation on 15 January 2018, an extensive support programme was established to help 1,148 apprentices employed to find alternative employment. Construction Industry Training Board (CITB) supported 775 apprentices to successfully apply for new jobs with alternative employers in the sector where they have resumed their apprenticeships. Some former Carillion apprentices found work in different sectors or returned to full time education.</p><p> </p><p>The 341 apprentices who have been made redundant will continue to receive support from CITB to apply for apprenticeships. They have been offered information, advice and guidance and where appropriate are being encouraged to return to full time education, if they have an appetite to continue their construction qualifications.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 18/09/2018 16:10:55 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
	tabling member	4607 label Biography information for Stephanie Peacock

855525

	registered interest
	date	05/03/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Pre-school Education: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, which local authority areas had their early years hourly funding rates reduced in 2017-18 compared with 2016-17; and what percentage that reduction in funding rate was for each local authority area so affected.
	tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
	tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
	uin	130832
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/03/2018 answer text <p>37 local authorities were protected by the transitional protection, which prevents any authority seeing an annual reduction in their three and four year old hourly funding rates of more than five per cent. Each area’s percentage change is shown in the attached table. For two year olds, all local authorities saw a seven per cent increase in 2017/18 from their 2016/17 hourly rate.</p><p> </p><p>Full details on early years national funding formula (EYNFF) funding rates to local authorities can be found in the document ‘EYNFF: local authority allocations for 2017 to 18’ at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/574003/EYNFF_local_authority_allocations_table.xlsx" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/574003/EYNFF_local_authority_allocations_table.xlsx</a>.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 08/03/2018 16:45:13 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi attachment 1 file name 130832 Attachment.docx title 130832 Table 1
	tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell

993764

	registered interest
	date	23/10/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Primary Education: Nurseries
	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 19 October 2018 to Question 179290 on Primary Education: Nurseries, how many (a) mainstream and (b) special primary schools that opened since September 2017 (a) have, (b) have plans for and (c) do not have nursery provision.
	tabling member constituency	Batley and Spen
	tabling member printed	Tracy Brabin
	uin	182881
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/10/2018 answer text <p>37 mainstream primary free schools and one special primary free school have opened since September 2017. 17 of the mainstream primary free schools have nursery provision and six have plans for nursery provision. 14 of the mainstream primary free schools and the one special primary school that opened since September 2017 do not currently have, or have plans for, nursery provision.</p><p> </p><p>In addition to this, four voluntary-aided primary schools have opened during this period, one of which includes nursery provision. The department does not hold information on the number of these schools planning nursery provision.</p><p> </p><p>These figures relate to schools that have exclusively primary-aged pupils.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 29/10/2018 17:55:02 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi previous answer version 81200 answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
	tabling member	4588 label Biography information for Tracy Brabin

1110307

	registered interest
	date	08/04/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Primary Education: Nurseries
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many new primary schools have included a nursery since June 2017; and what estimate he has made of the cost of the public purse of that policy.
	tabling member constituency	Ashton-under-Lyne
	tabling member printed	Angela Rayner
	uin	242149
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/04/2019 answer text <p>38 primary free schools have opened since June 2017. 21 of these have nursery provisions and a further 3 have plans for nursery provisions. In addition to this, 4 voluntary-aided primary schools have opened during this time, one of which includes nursery provisions.</p><p>The cost of a nursery in a free school is integrated into the total cost of the project. It is not possible to separate out the costs of the nursery alone, as they will generally share facilities and services with the school itself.</p><p>For the purposes of forecasting, the department now estimates the average additional build cost per pupil of including a nursery within a primary free school as around £12,500 excluding VAT. The difference to the figure provided in response to question 182803 attributable to inflation. For actual projects, costs will depend on a variety of local circumstances including site specifications and pupil numbers.</p><p>Local authorities are also responsible for approving proposals for new voluntary-aided schools, including where proposals include nursery provisions. Local authorities and proposers have been responsible for meeting the associated capital costs of these schools, with proposers expected to cover up to 10% of this amount.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 11/04/2019 16:56:18 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
	tabling member	4356 label Biography information for Angela Rayner

855524

	registered interest
	date	05/03/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Pre-school Education: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and which local authorities allocated a quality supplement through the early years funding formula in 2017-18; and which local authorities plan to allocate such a supplement in 2018-19.
	tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
	tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
	uin	130831
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/03/2018 answer text <p>42 local authorities plan to allocate funding for a quality supplement through their local formula in 2017/18 for three and four year olds. For two year olds, two local authorities plan to fund a quality supplement in 2017/18. Full details on local authority planned budget information can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/section-251-2017-to-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/section-251-2017-to-2018</a>.</p><p> </p><p>The department will not have local authority planned budget available information for 2018/19 until September 2018.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 13/03/2018 15:00:53 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
	tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell

816777

	registered interest
	date	05/01/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Education: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, which local authorities have applied to her Department for authorisation to make further deductions or variations to the limits set out in the School and Early Years Finance (England) Regulations 2017.
	tabling member constituency	Waveney
	tabling member printed	Peter Aldous
	uin	121204
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2018 answer text <p>89 local authorities requested to disapply the School and Early Years Finance (England) regulations 2017, this relates to the funding year 2017/18.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 15/01/2018 17:53:31 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
	tabling member	4069 label Biography information for Peter Aldous

1278602

	registered interest
	date	20/01/2021
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Coronavirus: Vaccination
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent progress he has made on monitoring the effectiveness of the (a) Pfizer/BioNTech and (b) Oxford University/AstraZeneca vaccines on people who are immunocompromised.
	tabling member constituency	Ceredigion
	tabling member printed	Ben Lake
	uin	140913
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2021 answer text <p><br>Public Health England is monitoring the impact of COVID-19 vaccines on a broad range of outcomes including symptomatic disease, infection and hospitalisations as set out in the COVID-19 vaccine surveillance strategy</p><p>Vaccine effectiveness assessments are reported regularly to the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) to inform vaccine policy recommendations. This will include assessment of vaccine effectiveness in immunocompromised individuals using general practice’s electronic health record data. Once sufficient evidence becomes available the JCVI will consider options for a protection strategy for immunosuppressed individuals, including whether any specific vaccine is preferred in this population.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 25/01/2021 17:59:19 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
	tabling member	4630 label Biography information for Ben Lake