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782827

	registered interest
	date	02/11/2017
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Home Office: Nurseries
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what childcare facilities her Department makes available for its staff; how much her Department spent (a) overall and (b) per child on those facilities in the last 12 months; and how many of her Department's staff use those facilities.
	tabling member constituency	Batley and Spen
	tabling member printed	Tracy Brabin
	uin	111064
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/11/2017 answer text <p>Staff in the Department can utilise the Westminster Holiday Play Scheme. This is a childcare facility that takes place during school holidays, open to children from the age of 4 years and 9 months up to 15 years’ old. It is run by a private company on behalf of a consortium of departments, through a contract led and administered by BEIS. It currently operates at 4 London locations. Parents/guardians meet more than half of the costs for children attending this scheme, but the Department pays either £14.78 or £15.68 (dependent on the age of the child) towards each day’s use of the scheme.</p><p>During FY 2016/17, Home Office has recorded spend of £4045.84 on this play scheme. The Department does not collate details on the number of individual staff members who made use of the scheme or on the amounts spent per child.</p><p>More widely, the Home Office operates a Childcare Voucher Salary Sacrifice Scheme for staff. Staff can choose to take part of their salary (up to £243 per month) in the form of childcare vouchers. As the vouchers are exempt from Tax and NI, a saving is made. The vouchers can be used to help meet the costs of a range of registered childcare.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 07/11/2017 14:59:42 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
	tabling member	4588 label Biography information for Tracy Brabin

782854

	registered interest
	date	02/11/2017
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Ministry of Justice: Nurseries
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what childcare facilities his Department makes available for its staff; how much his Department (a) overall and (b) per child on those facilities in the last 12 months; and how many of his Department's staff use those facilities.
	tabling member constituency	Batley and Spen
	tabling member printed	Tracy Brabin
	uin	111072
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/11/2017 answer text <p>There are no on-site childcare facilities provided by the Ministry of Justice on its estate. However, the Department recognises that employees need flexible pre-school and out-of-school childcare of a type and in a location most convenient to them, and we offer a salary sacrifice scheme for childcare vouchers. This enables employees to choose their own childcare provider (subject to meeting eligibility requirements) and have their childcare costs reduced by taking part of their salary in the form of childcare vouchers, which are exempt from tax and National Insurance contributions.</p><p>We also offer a range of flexible working options to staff, including term-time working, job shares and compressed hours, to allow staff with caring responsibilities to work in the way that best suits them.</p> answering member constituency Bracknell answering member printed Dr Phillip Lee question first answered 07/11/2017 17:51:58 answering member 3921 label Biography information for Dr Phillip Lee
	tabling member	4588 label Biography information for Tracy Brabin

782830

	registered interest
	date	02/11/2017
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	Department for International Development: Nurseries
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what childcare facilities her Department makes available for its staff; how much her Department spent (a) overall and (b) per child on those facilities in the last 12 months; and how many of her Department's staff use those facilities.
	tabling member constituency	Batley and Spen
	tabling member printed	Tracy Brabin
	uin	111063
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/11/2017 answer text <p>DFID has 2 HQ buildings in the UK, one in Whitehall and one in East Kilbride. Neither building provides childcare facilities however DFID operates the Childcare Voucher scheme to assist parents of young children with the cost of nursery and after school placements.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 07/11/2017 16:17:09 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
	tabling member	4588 label Biography information for Tracy Brabin

782764

	registered interest
	date	02/11/2017
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Department of Health: Nurseries
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what childcare facilities his Department makes available for its staff; how much his Department spent (a) overall and (b) per child on those facilities in the last 12 months; and how many of his Department's staff use those facilities.
	tabling member constituency	Batley and Spen
	tabling member printed	Tracy Brabin
	uin	111062
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/11/2017 answer text <p>The Department does not provide any childcare facilities for its staff on its estate. The Department does participate in a voucher scheme but this is a salary sacrifice where staff give up part of their salary in exchange for vouchers for childcare. There is no cost to the Department for this scheme.</p> answering member constituency Ludlow answering member printed Mr Philip Dunne question first answered 07/11/2017 12:11:07 answering member 1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne
	tabling member	4588 label Biography information for Tracy Brabin

780444

	registered interest
	date	30/10/2017
	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, pursuant to the Answer of 30 October 2017 to Question 109339, on children: day care, what the timetable is for publication of the independent evaluation.
	tabling member constituency	Batley and Spen
	tabling member printed	Tracy Brabin
	uin	110302
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/11/2017 answer text <p>The department will carry out an independent evaluation of 30 hours’ free childcare during the first two terms of national rollout.</p><p> </p><p>We currently have an invitation to tender issued which will close on Thursday 2 November. We will review the bids and appoint an independent contractor to undertake the year one evaluation of 30 hours before the end of the year.</p><p> </p><p>Following a scoping exercise the planned timetable for publication of the evaluation will be:</p><ul><li>Research fieldwork: January – May 2018.</li><li>Report publication: by 1 September 2018.</li></ul><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 07/11/2017 16:38:54 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
	tabling member	4588 label Biography information for Tracy Brabin