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819924

	registered interest
	date	10/01/2018
	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 eligibility codes for 30 hours of free childcare have been issued for the January term in (a) the England, (b) each region of England and (c) each local authority area in England.
	tabling member constituency	Batley and Spen
	tabling member printed	Tracy Brabin
	uin	121996
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2018 answer text <p>As of 8 January 2017, 326,068 eligibility codes for 30 hours of free childcare had been issued for the spring term as published in the management information release: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/30-hours-free-childcare-eligibility-codes-issued-and-validated" target="_blank">30 hours free childcare eligibility codes issued and validated: January 2018</a>. The publication also includes a local authority breakdown and is available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/30-hours-free-childcare-eligibility-codes-issued-and-validated" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/30-hours-free-childcare-eligibility-codes-issued-and-validated</a>.</p><p> </p><p>See below for a breakdown of issued codes by region:</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Region</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Eligibility codes issued by </strong> <strong>8 January 2018</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>NORTH EAST</p></td><td><p>14,814</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>NORTH WEST</p></td><td><p>50,584</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>YORKSHIRE AND THE HUMBER</p></td><td><p>33,304</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>EAST MIDLANDS</p></td><td><p>30,541</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>WEST MIDLANDS</p></td><td><p>34,103</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>EAST OF ENGLAND</p></td><td><p>34,473</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>INNER LONDON</p></td><td><p>12,925</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>OUTER LONDON</p></td><td><p>26,168</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>SOUTH EAST</p></td><td><p>53,163</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>SOUTH WEST</p></td><td><p>35,489</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Unknown</p></td><td><p>504</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total</p></td><td><p>326,068</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 15/01/2018 17:25:01 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
	tabling member	4588 label Biography information for Tracy Brabin

816832

	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	Free School Meals
	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 children receiving free school meals who are entitled to them.
	tabling member constituency	Bradford East
	tabling member printed	Imran Hussain
	uin	121259
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2018 answer text <p>We recognise the benefits of providing a healthy school meal to the most disadvantaged children and we want to make sure that as many eligible children as possible are claiming their free school meals.</p><p><br> Schools and local authorities have worked hard in recent years to encourage eligible families to register for free school meals, and we provide schools with a model registration form and guidance. We will continue to look at the most effective practice and to share this with schools and local authorities.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 15/01/2018 17:28:50 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
	tabling member	4394 label Biography information for Imran Hussain

819038

	registered interest
	date	09/01/2018
	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, what the average weekly cost was of a childcare place in Greater London in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	East Ham
	tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
	uin	121715
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2018 answer text <p>The department collects data on the weekly cost of childcare through our regular parent surveys. These can be found at the following link: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-childcare-and-early-years" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-childcare-and-early-years</a>.</p><p><strong><br> </strong></p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 15/01/2018 17:35:47 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
	tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

819945

	registered interest
	date	10/01/2018
	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, when he plans to provide more information on extending the eligibility for 30 hours of childcare to foster children.
	tabling member constituency	Batley and Spen
	tabling member printed	Tracy Brabin
	uin	122017
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2018 answer text <p>As Minister for Children and Families and my hon. Friend, the Member for Scarborough and Whitby (Robert Goodwill), announced during the Westminster Hall debate on 19 December 2018, the department is working to allow foster carers to access the additional 30 hours free childcare for their foster children where it is right for the child.</p><p>The department is working with local authorities, fostering service providers, fostering charities and foster carers themselves to develop plans for delivery. More detail will be set out in due course.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 15/01/2018 17:37:49 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
	tabling member	4588 label Biography information for Tracy Brabin

819955

	registered interest
	date	10/01/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Pre-school Education
	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 role of maintained nursery schools in tackling educational inequalities; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Warrington North
	tabling member printed	Helen Jones
	uin	122027
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2018 answer text <p>Maintained nursery schools (MNS) are commonly located in disadvantaged areas and all but one is rated good or outstanding by Ofsted. We are providing around £60 million a year of supplementary funding to enable local authorities to maintain funding rates for MNS until at least 2019-20.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 15/01/2018 17:39:34 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
	tabling member	432 label Biography information for Helen Jones

816954

	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	Free School Meals: Wansbeck
	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 families in Wansbeck constituency who would be entitled to free school meals under the pre-universal infant free school meals system.
	tabling member constituency	Wansbeck
	tabling member printed	Ian Lavery
	uin	121381
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2018 answer text <p>The proportion of pupils eligible for and claiming free school meals under the pre-universal free school meals system is published at the annual ‘Schools, pupils and their characteristics’ statistical release</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/schools-pupils-and-their-characteristics-january-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/schools-pupils-and-their-characteristics-january-2017</a>.</p><p>Data is not summarised by parliamentary constituency, but data for each school is available in the Underlying data: SFR28/2017 of the annual ‘Schools, pupils and their characteristics’ statistical release, contained in file ‘SFR28_2017_Schools_Pupils_UD’. The figures can be filtered by school phase, school type and parliamentary constituency.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 15/01/2018 17:42:34 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
	tabling member	4139 label Biography information for Ian Lavery

816918

	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	Pupils: Sexual Offences
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what guidance her Department plans to issue to schools on tackling peer-on-peer sexual abuse.
	tabling member constituency	Solihull
	tabling member printed	Julian Knight
	uin	121345
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2018 answer text <p>On 14 December 2017 the department published advice for schools on how to prevent and respond to reports of sexual violence and sexual harassment between children (available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/sexual-violence-and-sexual-harassment-between-children-in-schools-and-colleges" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/sexual-violence-and-sexual-harassment-between-children-in-schools-and-colleges</a>.)</p><p>Keeping Children Safe in Education is statutory guidance that all schools must have regard to when carrying out their duties to safeguard and promote the welfare of children (available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/keeping-children-safe-in-education--2" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/keeping-children-safe-in-education--2</a>).</p><p>KCSIE sets out that all staff should receive safeguarding and child protection training at induction and that training should be regularly updated. All schools should have an effective child protection policy. The policy should include procedures to minimise the risk of peer on peer abuse, set out how allegations will be investigated and dealt with, be clear abuse should never be passed off as “banter” and set out how victims of peer on peer abuse will be supported.</p><p>The department is consulting on revising KCSIE. The consultation (available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/keeping-children-safe-in-education-proposed-revisions" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/keeping-children-safe-in-education-proposed-revisions</a>) closes on 22 February 2018 and provides an opportunity to comment on the effectiveness of the sexual violence and sexual harassment advice.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 121346 question first answered 15/01/2018 17:46:28 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
	tabling member	4410 label Biography information for Julian Knight

816919

	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	Pupils: Sexual Offences
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to prevent peer-on-peer sexual abuse in schools.
	tabling member constituency	Solihull
	tabling member printed	Julian Knight
	uin	121346
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2018 answer text <p>On 14 December 2017 the department published advice for schools on how to prevent and respond to reports of sexual violence and sexual harassment between children (available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/sexual-violence-and-sexual-harassment-between-children-in-schools-and-colleges" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/sexual-violence-and-sexual-harassment-between-children-in-schools-and-colleges</a>.)</p><p>Keeping Children Safe in Education is statutory guidance that all schools must have regard to when carrying out their duties to safeguard and promote the welfare of children (available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/keeping-children-safe-in-education--2" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/keeping-children-safe-in-education--2</a>).</p><p>KCSIE sets out that all staff should receive safeguarding and child protection training at induction and that training should be regularly updated. All schools should have an effective child protection policy. The policy should include procedures to minimise the risk of peer on peer abuse, set out how allegations will be investigated and dealt with, be clear abuse should never be passed off as “banter” and set out how victims of peer on peer abuse will be supported.</p><p>The department is consulting on revising KCSIE. The consultation (available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/keeping-children-safe-in-education-proposed-revisions" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/keeping-children-safe-in-education-proposed-revisions</a>) closes on 22 February 2018 and provides an opportunity to comment on the effectiveness of the sexual violence and sexual harassment advice.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 121345 question first answered 15/01/2018 17:46:28 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
	tabling member	4410 label Biography information for Julian Knight

816907

	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	Free School Meals
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate he has made of the number of families that will become ineligible for free school meals as a result of proposed changes to the net earnings threshold and how many of those families would benefit financially by reducing their income in order to receive free school meals.
	tabling member constituency	Washington and Sunderland West
	tabling member printed	Mrs Sharon Hodgson
	uin	121334
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2018 answer text <p>We are currently consulting on proposals for free school meals eligibility under Universal Credit. We will consider the responses to the consultation carefully and will continue to refine our analysis as our policy on this matter develops.</p><p>Currently around 1.1 million of the most disadvantaged children are eligible for and claim a free nutritious meal. This government provides significant funding to ensure the most disadvantaged children receive free school meals. Under our proposals, no existing recipients of free school meals should lose their entitlement following the introduction of new eligibility criteria. We have proposed protection arrangements to ensure that every pupil who is eligible and receiving free school meals at the point at which the criteria are changed (or any claimants who gain free school meals during the rollout of Universal Credit) should be protected against losing their meals whilst Universal Credit is fully rolled out nationally. In addition, any protected pupils who are still receiving free school meals once the Universal Credit transition is complete would continue to receive protection until the end of their current phase of education.</p><p>Under our proposed net earnings threshold, we estimate that around 50,000 more children will become entitled to free school meals than at present, enabling us to target support towards a greater number of families on low incomes. It is right that we make sure that free school meals reach children from the most disadvantaged families, and we are consulting on this issue to make sure that this is the case.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 15/01/2018 17:47:56 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
	tabling member	1521 label Biography information for Mrs Sharon Hodgson

819121

	registered interest
	date	09/01/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Academies: School Meals
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what percentage of academies founded between January 2010 and June 2014 have voluntarily signed up to the national school food standards.
	tabling member constituency	Bristol East
	tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
	uin	121798
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2018 answer text <p>Statutory School Food Standards apply to local authority maintained schools, academies that opened prior to September 2010 and academies and free schools in England entering into a funding agreement from June 2014.</p><p>All new academies are expected to meet the food standards. Over 1400 academies, founded between September 2010 and June 2014, are voluntarily following the standards and we encourage the remaining schools to commit to them.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 15/01/2018 17:49:25 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
	tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy