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1166851

	registered interest
	date	28/10/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Nurseries: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the 25 October 2019 decision of the Information Commissioner, if he will publish his Department's calculations of funding for free and subsidised nursery places.
	tabling member constituency	Dulwich and West Norwood
	tabling member printed	Helen Hayes
	uin	6465
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/10/2019 answer text <p>The Department wants every child to have the best start in life, which is why we are spending around £3.5 billion on early education entitlements this year and plan to spend over £3.6 billion on these entitlements next year.</p><p>The Department are aware of the decision made by the Information Commissioner's Office and are considering its response.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 31/10/2019 16:31:22 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	4510 label Biography information for Helen Hayes

1185741

	registered interest
	date	17/03/2020
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Nurseries: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the budget headings are for the supplementary funding for maintained nursery schools in 2020-2021 announced by his Department in October 2019.
	tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
	tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
	uin	30812
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/04/2020 answer text <p>The additional £66 million to support early education entitlements in 2020-21 which was announced by my right hon. Friend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer in August 2019, provided an 8 pence an hour increase in rates for the 2-year-old entitlement and also for the vast majority of areas for 3- and 4-year-old entitlement for 2020-21 - which we subsequently announced in October 2019. It has also maintained funding rates for 2020-21 for the small number of authorities which have been protected from large drops to their funding as a result of the “loss cap”.</p><p>Details of this increased funding, broken down by individual funding stream and across local authorities, was published in December 2019 and can be found at the link below:</p><p><a href="https://skillsfunding.service.gov.uk/single-funding-statement/latest/dedicated-schools-grant/download-funding/2020-to-2021" target="_blank">https://skillsfunding.service.gov.uk/single-funding-statement/latest/dedicated-schools-grant/download-funding/2020-to-2021</a>.</p><p>This publication does not have ‘budget headings’ other than columns naming the entitlements by age group, along with columns for the Disability Access Fund (DAF) and the Early Years Pupil Premium (EYPP).</p><p>The funding allocations for local authorities are based on actual take up of the entitlement hours. Therefore, allocations for 2020-21 will be updated, first in summer 2020 using updated data from the January 2020 schools and early years censuses, and then in summer 2021 using January 2021 census data for the final allocation.</p><p>In total, the government plans to spend more than £3.6 billion to support early education entitlements in 2020-21.</p> answering member constituency Chelmsford answering member printed Vicky Ford grouped question UIN 30811 question first answered 03/04/2020 13:31:52 answering member 4674 label Biography information for Vicky Ford
	tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

1191030

	registered interest
	date	28/04/2020
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Nurseries: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he is taking to ensure the financial sustainability of nurseries (a) during and (b) after the covid-19 lockdown.
	tabling member constituency	York Central
	tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
	uin	41107
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/05/2020 answer text <p>The government is committed to ensuring critical workers and vulnerable children have access to childcare during the COVID-19 outbreak, and that the childcare market is able to recover afterwards to enable parents with young children to return to work. In order to support them to deliver this, the government has announced unprecedented support for businesses, including for the early years sector.</p><p>The Department for Education has published guidance for the early years sector on the support available to them: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-early-years-and-childcare-closures/coronavirus-covid-19-early-years-and-childcare-closures#funding" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-early-years-and-childcare-closures/coronavirus-covid-19-early-years-and-childcare-closures#funding</a>.</p><p>The Department for Education is having regular conversations with the sector and local authorities about the availability of childcare, and will continue this as we move through the COVID-19 outbreak to recovery.</p><p>Our latest collection of guidance for schools and educational settings relating to COVID-19 is set out below:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/coronavirus-covid-19-guidance-for-schools-and-other-educational-settings" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/coronavirus-covid-19-guidance-for-schools-and-other-educational-settings</a>.</p><p>These are rapidly developing circumstances. We continue to keep the situation under review and will keep Parliament updated accordingly.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Chelmsford answering member printed Vicky Ford question first answered 11/05/2020 16:51:11 answering member 4674 label Biography information for Vicky Ford
	tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1225107

	registered interest
	date	15/07/2020
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Nurseries: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of funding allocated to nurseries to support the 30 hours free childcare entitlement for eligible children.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough
	tabling member printed	Gill Furniss
	uin	74694
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/07/2020 answer text <p>The government continues to support families with their childcare costs. Last October, we announced increases in our hourly rates for the 2 year old entitlement and in the vast majority of areas for the 3 and 4 year old entitlement, effective from April of this year.</p><p>We also announced that supplementary funding for maintained nursery schools will continue until the end of the financial year 2020-21. We are committed to supporting maintained nursery schools in the long term. Guidance on the use of free early education entitlements funding during the COVID-19 outbreak is available here:<br> <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/use-of-free-early-education-entitlements-funding-during-the-coronavirus-outbreak/use-of-free-early-education-entitlements-funding-during-coronavirus-covid-19" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/use-of-free-early-education-entitlements-funding-during-the-coronavirus-outbreak/use-of-free-early-education-entitlements-funding-during-coronavirus-covid-19</a>.</p><p>We are planning to spend over £3.6 billion on our early education entitlements in 2020-21. Future funding is a matter for the next spending review.</p><p>We will continue to monitor the market closely through a range of research projects which provide insight into various aspects of the childcare and provider market.</p><p>During the COVID-19 outbreak, we have continued to pay the entitlements to local authorities as usual.</p><p>The government has also provided childcare providers with a range of measures to offer financial assistance during the COVID-19 outbreak, including business rates relief, the Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan, the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme and the Self-Employment Income Support Scheme.</p><p>On 20 July, we announced that we will fund childcare at the level we would have done before the COVID-19 outbreak until the end of the year. This will give nurseries and childminders another term of secure income, regardless of whether fewer children are attending.</p><p>We continue to work closely with the early years sector to understand how it can best be supported to ensure that sufficient childcare is available for those returning to work now, and for all families who need it in the longer term.</p> answering member constituency Chelmsford answering member printed Vicky Ford question first answered 24/07/2020 15:06:47 answering member 4674 label Biography information for Vicky Ford
	tabling member	4571 label Biography information for Gill Furniss

1225115

	registered interest
	date	15/07/2020
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Nurseries: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will enable maintained nursery schools to access the School funding: exceptional costs associated with coronavirus (COVID-19) programme.
	tabling member constituency	Warwick and Leamington
	tabling member printed	Matt Western
	uin	74711
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/07/2020 answer text <p>The government recognises that maintained nursery schools are an important part of the early years sector and provide valuable services, especially in disadvantaged areas.</p><p>All nurseries, including maintained nursery schools, are benefiting from the continuation of early years entitlement funding during the COVID-19 outbreak. On 20 July, we set out our plans for funding local authorities and providers in the autumn term which is available at:<br> <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/use-of-free-early-education-entitlements-funding-during-the-coronavirus-outbreak/use-of-free-early-education-entitlements-funding-during-coronavirus-covid-19" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/use-of-free-early-education-entitlements-funding-during-the-coronavirus-outbreak/use-of-free-early-education-entitlements-funding-during-coronavirus-covid-19</a>.</p><p>Unlike most state-funded schools, maintained nursery schools typically rely on private income for a significant proportion of their total income. Therefore, they cannot claim for specific costs incurred due to COVID-19, but they can access to the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme, as set out in the published guidance available here:<br> <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-financial-support-for-education-early-years-and-childrens-social-care/coronavirus-covid-19-financial-support-for-education-early-years-and-childrens-social-care" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-financial-support-for-education-early-years-and-childrens-social-care/coronavirus-covid-19-financial-support-for-education-early-years-and-childrens-social-care</a>.</p><p>Maintained nursery schools can also access free school meals vouchers via Edenred.</p><p>We are continuing to work with the early years sector to assess the support required to cope with the impact of COVID-19.</p><p>We remain committed to funding for maintained nursery schools in the longer term, with appropriate protections in place to accompany any reforms of that funding. Future funding will be considered as part of the next spending review.</p> answering member constituency Chelmsford answering member printed Vicky Ford question first answered 23/07/2020 16:55:01 answering member 4674 label Biography information for Vicky Ford
	tabling member	4617 label Biography information for Matt Western

1229022

	registered interest
	date	28/08/2020
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Nurseries: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when he plans to announce a new funding settlement for maintained nursery schools.
	tabling member constituency	Chipping Barnet
	tabling member printed	Theresa Villiers
	uin	81634
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2020 answer text <p>Maintained nursery schools are an important part of the early years sector and provide valuable services, especially in disadvantaged areas. The government announced on 24 August that up to £23 million of supplementary funding will be provided to local authorities to enable them to continue protecting the funding of maintained nursery schools during the summer term in 2021. This provides maintained nursery schools with certainty about funding for the 2020-21 academic year.</p><p>What happens after the 2020-21 academic year will be determined by the Comprehensive Spending Review in the context of our priorities across early years as a whole. Future arrangements will be for all maintained nursery schools, including those in Barnet.</p><p>This government remains committed to the long-term funding of maintained nursery schools, and any reform to the way they are funded will be accompanied by appropriate funding protections.</p> answering member constituency Chelmsford answering member printed Vicky Ford grouped question UIN 81635 question first answered 07/09/2020 15:22:55 answering member 4674 label Biography information for Vicky Ford
	tabling member	1500 label Biography information for Theresa Villiers

1230146

	registered interest
	date	01/09/2020
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Nurseries: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will include Barnet within the scope of his transitional funding for maintained nursery schools.
	tabling member constituency	Chipping Barnet
	tabling member printed	Theresa Villiers
	uin	83688
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2020 answer text <p>Maintained nursery schools are an important part of the early years sector and provide valuable services, especially in disadvantaged areas. The government announced on 24 August that up to £23 million of supplementary funding will be provided to local authorities to enable them to continue protecting the funding of maintained nursery schools during the summer term in 2021. This provides maintained nursery schools with certainty about funding for the 2020-21 academic year. It is a one-term continuation of current maintained nursery school supplementary funding; it is not a new transitional fund.</p><p>What happens after the 2020-21 academic year will be determined by the Comprehensive Spending Review in the context of our priorities across early years as a whole. Future arrangements will be for all maintained nursery schools, including those in Barnet.</p><p>This government remains committed to the long-term funding of maintained nursery schools, and any reform to the way they are funded will be accompanied by appropriate funding protections.</p> answering member constituency Chelmsford answering member printed Vicky Ford question first answered 07/09/2020 15:00:12 answering member 4674 label Biography information for Vicky Ford
	tabling member	1500 label Biography information for Theresa Villiers

1233495

	registered interest
	date	10/09/2020
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Nurseries: Finance
	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 effect on the financial stability of the nursery sector of the end of the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme.
	tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
	tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
	uin	88365
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/09/2020 answer text <p>The early years sector has benefitted from continued entitlement funding during the COVID-19 outbreak, on which we are planning to spend over £3.6 billion in 2020-21. On 20 July, we announced our commitment to continue funding local authorities for childcare this autumn term, at the same levels as seen prior to the COVID-19 outbreak, regardless of whether fewer children are attending. If providers are open but caring for fewer children as a result of low demand, either from parents or due to public health reasons, they can continue to be funded for the autumn term at broadly the levels that they would have expected to see had there been no COVID-19 outbreak.</p><p>Early years providers have also been able to access a comprehensive package of business support, including a business rates holiday, a small business grant of £10,000, business loans and access to the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme and Self-Employment Income Support Scheme. More details are available at:<br> <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-early-years-and-childcare-closures/coronavirus-covid-19-early-years-and-childcare-closures#funding" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-early-years-and-childcare-closures/coronavirus-covid-19-early-years-and-childcare-closures#funding</a>.</p><p>To provide additional support to businesses to retain employees as demand grows, we are introducing the Job Retention Bonus after the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme ends on 31 October 2020.</p><p>The Job Retention Bonus is a one-off payment of £1,000 to employers for each employee who was ever furloughed, has been continuously employed until 31 January 2021 and is still employed by the same employer as of 31 January 2021.</p><p>Employees must have been continuously employed, earn an average of more than £520 per month in November, December and January and have been furloughed and successfully claimed for under the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme at any point to be eligible.</p><p>Further details about the Job Retention Bonus are available at:<br><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/job-retention-bonus" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/job-retention-bonus</a>.</p> answering member constituency Chelmsford answering member printed Vicky Ford question first answered 16/09/2020 11:08:50 answering member 4674 label Biography information for Vicky Ford
	tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

1254366

	registered interest
	date	23/11/2020
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Nurseries: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans he has to extend supplementary funding for maintained nursery schools to cover the 2021-22 financial year.
	tabling member constituency	Chipping Barnet
	tabling member printed	Theresa Villiers
	uin	119183
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/11/2020 answer text <p>Maintained nursery schools (MNS) are an important part of the early years sector and provide valuable services, especially in disadvantaged areas. The government announced on 24 August that up to £23 million of supplementary funding will be provided to local authorities, to enable them to continue protecting the funding of MNS during the summer term in 2021.</p><p>This government remains committed to the long-term funding of MNS, and any reform to the way they are funded will be accompanied by appropriate funding protections.</p><p>The department has secured a continuation of around £60 million of supplementary funding for MNS in the 2021-22 financial year, as part of this Spending Review. The department continues to consider what is required to ensure a clear, long-term picture of funding for all MNS, including those in Barnet. We will say more about this soon.</p> answering member constituency Chelmsford answering member printed Vicky Ford grouped question UIN 119184 119185 question first answered 26/11/2020 17:26:23 answering member 4674 label Biography information for Vicky Ford
	tabling member	1500 label Biography information for Theresa Villiers

1254367

	registered interest
	date	23/11/2020
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Nurseries: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will make it his policy to include in his next tranche of supplementary funding maintained nursery schools in boroughs that were not included in his Department's most recent supplementary funding for early years settlement.
	tabling member constituency	Chipping Barnet
	tabling member printed	Theresa Villiers
	uin	119184
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/11/2020 answer text <p>Maintained nursery schools (MNS) are an important part of the early years sector and provide valuable services, especially in disadvantaged areas. The government announced on 24 August that up to £23 million of supplementary funding will be provided to local authorities, to enable them to continue protecting the funding of MNS during the summer term in 2021.</p><p>This government remains committed to the long-term funding of MNS, and any reform to the way they are funded will be accompanied by appropriate funding protections.</p><p>The department has secured a continuation of around £60 million of supplementary funding for MNS in the 2021-22 financial year, as part of this Spending Review. The department continues to consider what is required to ensure a clear, long-term picture of funding for all MNS, including those in Barnet. We will say more about this soon.</p> answering member constituency Chelmsford answering member printed Vicky Ford grouped question UIN 119183 119185 question first answered 26/11/2020 17:26:24 answering member 4674 label Biography information for Vicky Ford
	tabling member	1500 label Biography information for Theresa Villiers