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805248

	registered interest
	date	12/12/2017
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Healthy Pupils Capital Fund
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what expenditure her Department has allocated from the Healthy Pupils Capital Fund to (a) the Condition Improvement Fund and (b) the School Condition Allocations for the period 2018-19.
	tabling member constituency	North Swindon
	tabling member printed	Justin Tomlinson
	uin	118920
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2017 answer text <p>£100 million of revenue generated from the Soft Drinks Industry Levy will be utilised for the Healthy Pupils Capital Fund (HPCF). This fund is intended to improve children’s and young people’s physical and mental health by enhancing access to facilities for physical activity, healthy eating, mental health and wellbeing and medical conditions, such as kitchens, dining facilities, changing rooms, playgrounds and sports facilities.</p><p> </p><p>The HPCF is available in 2018-19 and will be allocated through the current arrangements for schools condition funding.</p><p> </p><p>Single and small academy trusts and sixth-form colleges have had the opportunity to bid for HPCF through the Condition Improvement Fund in 2018-19. The bidding round ran between 19 October and 14 December 2017. Local authorities, large multi-academy trusts and other bodies receiving School Condition Allocations (SCA) will receive a direct allocation from the HPCF. This direct allocation is in addition to their normal SCA and will be calculated, announced and paid alongside it.</p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 19/12/2017 19:26:55 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
	tabling member	4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson

805148

	registered interest
	date	12/12/2017
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Children in Care
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what information her Department holds on the number of public sector children's homes in England; and what the total capacity is of those homes.
	tabling member constituency	South Shields
	tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
	uin	118820
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2017 answer text <p>This is a matter for Amanda Spielman, Her Majesty's Chief Inspector, who will write to the hon. Member and a copy of her reply will be placed in the Libraries of both Houses.</p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 19/12/2017 19:48:27 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
	tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

805149

	registered interest
	date	12/12/2017
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Foster Care
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what information her Department holds on the number of independent fostering agencies in England.
	tabling member constituency	South Shields
	tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
	uin	118821
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2017 answer text <p>This is a matter for Amanda Spielman, Her Majesty's Chief Inspector, who will write to the hon. Member and a copy of her reply will be placed in the Libraries of both Houses.</p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 19/12/2017 19:51:24 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
	tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

806627

	registered interest
	date	14/12/2017
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Parkfield School Bournemouth
	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 5 July to Question 2169 on Parkfield School, Bournemouth, whether that project is now complete.
	tabling member constituency	Christchurch
	tabling member printed	Mr Christopher Chope
	uin	119703
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2017 answer text <p>The school moved to its permanent site in September 2017 and the Education and Skills Funding Agency is currently commissioning the remaining works on site, for completion in 2018.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 19/12/2017 17:53:13 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
	tabling member	242 label Biography information for Sir Christopher Chope

806695

	registered interest
	date	14/12/2017
	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 proportion of eligible children received 15 hours of free childcare in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Batley and Spen
	tabling member printed	Tracy Brabin
	uin	119771
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2017 answer text <p>The percentage of two, three and four year old children benefitting from funded early years education (years 2011 to 2017) is available within Table 5LA of the Main Tables on the department’s website at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/education-provision-children-under-5-years-of-age-january-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/education-provision-children-under-5-years-of-age-january-2017</a>.</p><p> </p><p>The percentage of three and four year olds benefitting from funded early education places as at January 2010 is available within Table 1 of the Main Tables on the department`s website at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/provision-for-children-under-5-years-of-age-in-england-january-2010" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/provision-for-children-under-5-years-of-age-in-england-january-2010</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 19/12/2017 17:38:53 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
	tabling member	4588 label Biography information for Tracy Brabin

805249

	registered interest
	date	12/12/2017
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Schools: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the planned allocation of expenditure for each type of school in receipt of the School Condition Allocation (SCA) is for the period 2018-19.
	tabling member constituency	North Swindon
	tabling member printed	Justin Tomlinson
	uin	118921
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2017 answer text <p>The government has committed to invest over £23 billion in the school estate between 2016-17 and 2020-21.</p><p> </p><p>The budget for School Condition Allocations (SCA) and the Condition Improvement Fund is set at £1.2 billion per year until 2018-19, with an additional £0.2 billion in Devolved Formula Capital.</p><p> </p><p>SCAs are published each year on the gov.uk website, which includes details of the responsible body receiving an allocation. We have not yet finalised allocations for 2018-19 and plan to publish these in Spring 2018. Allocations for 2017-18 may however be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/capital-allocations" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/capital-allocations</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 19/12/2017 19:21:07 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
	tabling member	4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson

804368

	registered interest
	date	11/12/2017
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Pupil Exclusions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether the exclusion review will make a comparative assessment of exclusion rates of academies and maintained schools.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
	tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
	uin	118588
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2017 answer text <p>The externally led review of exclusions practice and implications for pupil groups disproportionately represented in the national statistics, will consider how schools use exclusion and how this impacts on all pupils, but particularly why some groups of children are more likely to be excluded from school. The department will publish full details of the review, including how views can be submitted, in due course.</p><p> </p><p>Statistics on permanent and fixed-period exclusions published in July 2017 “Permanent and fixed-period exclusions in England 2015 to 2016” are available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/permanent-and-fixed-period-exclusions-in-england-2015-to-2016" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/permanent-and-fixed-period-exclusions-in-england-2015-to-2016</a>.</p><p>The national data tables within this release include exclusion rates for all academies and maintained schools.</p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 19/12/2017 17:52:16 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
	tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

806494

	registered interest
	date	14/12/2017
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Care Leavers: Suicide
	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 the number of young people who leave care and later take their own lives; and what steps she is taking to reduce the number of young people who leave care and later take their own lives.
	tabling member constituency	Stroud
	tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
	uin	119570
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2017 answer text <p>The department does not record data on the reason for deaths of care leavers.</p><p>We are committed to ensuring that care leavers are able to access the mental health support that they need to maintain positive emotional health and well-being. A joint Department of Health and Department for Education Expert Working Group has recently published its proposals for improving the mental health of looked after children and care leavers. A copy of their report is available at: <a href="https://www.scie.org.uk/children/care/mental-health/report" target="_blank">https://www.scie.org.uk/children/care/mental-health/report</a>.</p><p>Work to address the Expert Group’s findings is already underway. We are putting a record £1.4 billion into children and young people’s mental health and a further £3 million has been committed to support the recently published Children and Young People’s Mental Health Green Paper. We will now consider the Expert Working Group’s report in the context of the green paper with a view to taking further action.</p><p>More broadly, the government published its third progress report on preventing suicide in England in 2016, including the measures it is taking to prevent suicides among children and young people. A copy of the report is available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/582117/Suicide_report_2016_A.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/582117/Suicide_report_2016_A.pdf</a>.</p><p>We published our new cross-government strategy, Keep on Caring, in July 2016 which set out the measures we will take to improve the overall outcomes for care leavers. A copy is available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/535899/Care-Leaver-Strategy.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/535899/Care-Leaver-Strategy.pdf</a>.</p><p>The department publishes data annually on care leavers aged 17 to 21, which includes information on their main activity and whether or not they are in suitable accommodation. The latest data is available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/children-looked-after-in-england-including-adoption-2016-to-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/children-looked-after-in-england-including-adoption-2016-to-2017</a>.</p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill grouped question UIN 119571 question first answered 19/12/2017 17:47:17 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
	tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

806495

	registered interest
	date	14/12/2017
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Care Leavers
	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 monitor the development of young people who have left care.
	tabling member constituency	Stroud
	tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
	uin	119571
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2017 answer text <p>The department does not record data on the reason for deaths of care leavers.</p><p>We are committed to ensuring that care leavers are able to access the mental health support that they need to maintain positive emotional health and well-being. A joint Department of Health and Department for Education Expert Working Group has recently published its proposals for improving the mental health of looked after children and care leavers. A copy of their report is available at: <a href="https://www.scie.org.uk/children/care/mental-health/report" target="_blank">https://www.scie.org.uk/children/care/mental-health/report</a>.</p><p>Work to address the Expert Group’s findings is already underway. We are putting a record £1.4 billion into children and young people’s mental health and a further £3 million has been committed to support the recently published Children and Young People’s Mental Health Green Paper. We will now consider the Expert Working Group’s report in the context of the green paper with a view to taking further action.</p><p>More broadly, the government published its third progress report on preventing suicide in England in 2016, including the measures it is taking to prevent suicides among children and young people. A copy of the report is available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/582117/Suicide_report_2016_A.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/582117/Suicide_report_2016_A.pdf</a>.</p><p>We published our new cross-government strategy, Keep on Caring, in July 2016 which set out the measures we will take to improve the overall outcomes for care leavers. A copy is available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/535899/Care-Leaver-Strategy.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/535899/Care-Leaver-Strategy.pdf</a>.</p><p>The department publishes data annually on care leavers aged 17 to 21, which includes information on their main activity and whether or not they are in suitable accommodation. The latest data is available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/children-looked-after-in-england-including-adoption-2016-to-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/children-looked-after-in-england-including-adoption-2016-to-2017</a>.</p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill grouped question UIN 119570 question first answered 19/12/2017 17:47:17 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
	tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

805138

	registered interest
	date	12/12/2017
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	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 looked-after children are (a) UK and (b) non-UK EU nationals.
	tabling member constituency	South Shields
	tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
	uin	118810
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2017 answer text <p>The department does not collect information on the nationalities of looked after children.</p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 19/12/2017 19:35:52 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
	tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck