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857777

registered interest
date	08/03/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Academies: Property
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much his Department has spent from the public purse on the purchase and development of land and buildings for academies and free schools to date.
tabling member constituency	Bootle
tabling member printed	Peter Dowd
uin	131678
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/03/2018 answer text <p>The Government has committed to invest more than £23 billion in the school estate between 2016-17 and 2020-21. This includes a combination of formula and bid-based allocations to schools, local authorities and academy trusts and centrally delivered programmes.</p><p> </p><p>The Government’s free school programme was introduced in 2010 and is currently the only programme responsible for both purchasing and developing land and buildings for schools. As of 1 March 2018, there are 391 open free schools, 35 studio schools and 49 university technical colleges (UTCs), which will provide over 256,000 places when at capacity.</p><p> </p><p>The Department’s total capital costs for free schools, UTCs and studio schools in each financial year since the inception of the programme, are provided in the table below.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Financial year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total Free Schools Capital Costs<sup>1</sup></strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>£1m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>£50m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>£275m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>£704m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>£761m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>£931m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016-17</p></td><td><p>£965m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017-18</p></td><td><p>TBC<sup>2</sup></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><sup>1</sup> Rounded to the nearest £1 million.</p><p><sup>2 </sup>This figure will be available in July of this year once the department lays the Education and Skills Funding Agency’s annual accounts before Parliament.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>A detailed assessment of the capital budget required for each free school project is carried out both before site purchases and again before construction contracts are signed. All variations to the capital budget are reviewed and approved through an established and audited capital approval process and significant variations are escalated to Ministers, the Education and Skills Funding Agency Accounting Officer and, if required, HM Treasury.</p><p> </p><p>Capital funding for individual free schools, UTCs and studio schools, where costs have been finalised and are no longer commercially sensitive, are published on GOV.UK at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/capital-funding-for-open-free-schools" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/capital-funding-for-open-free-schools</a>.</p><p> </p><p>Data publications for our other main capital funding programmes can be found at the following links:</p><p>Schools Condition Allocations and Devolved Formula Capital: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/capital-allocations" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/capital-allocations</a>.</p><p>The Priority Schools Building Programme: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/priority-school-building-programme-psbp" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/priority-school-building-programme-psbp</a>.</p><p>Basic Need:<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/basic-need-allocations" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/basic-need-allocations</a>.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 13/03/2018 17:50:22 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4397 label Biography information for Peter Dowd

857856

registered interest
date	08/03/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pre-school Education: Teachers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Early Years Workforce Strategy published in March 2017, whether he has made an assessment of the feasibility of a programme to grow the graduate early years workforce in disadvantaged areas; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	131756
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/03/2018 answer text <p>The government is considering the feasibility of a range of approaches to supporting graduates in the early years workforce. This work is still underway.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 13/03/2018 16:48:33 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

855522

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 did not pass-through 93 percent of early years funding to early years providers in 2017-18; and which local authorities his Department expects will not pass-through 95 per cent of funding to early years providers in 2018-19.
tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
uin	130829
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/03/2018 answer text <p>For 2017/18, five local authorities applied to disapply the 93% pass-through requirement: Brent, Camden, Islington, Tower Hamlets and Wandsworth.</p><p> </p><p>For 2018/19, three local authorities applied to disapply the 95% pass-through requirement: Camden, Islington and Tower Hamlets.</p><p> </p><p>In 2017/18, all local authorities met the high pass-through rate apart from those who were given authority to disapply. Full detail can be found in the Early Years funding benchmarking too, available here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/early-years-benchmarking-tool" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/early-years-benchmarking-tool</a>.</p><p> </p><p>Information on compliance with the pass-through rate in 2018/19 will not be available until local authorities’ planned budget information is published in Autumn 2018.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 130830 question first answered 13/03/2018 16:25:54 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell

855523

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 applied for disapplication from the new early years funding formula pass-through rates in (a) 2017-18 and (b) 2018-19.
tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
uin	130830
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/03/2018 answer text <p>For 2017/18, five local authorities applied to disapply the 93% pass-through requirement: Brent, Camden, Islington, Tower Hamlets and Wandsworth.</p><p> </p><p>For 2018/19, three local authorities applied to disapply the 95% pass-through requirement: Camden, Islington and Tower Hamlets.</p><p> </p><p>In 2017/18, all local authorities met the high pass-through rate apart from those who were given authority to disapply. Full detail can be found in the Early Years funding benchmarking too, available here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/early-years-benchmarking-tool" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/early-years-benchmarking-tool</a>.</p><p> </p><p>Information on compliance with the pass-through rate in 2018/19 will not be available until local authorities’ planned budget information is published in Autumn 2018.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 130829 question first answered 13/03/2018 16:25:54 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell

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

855526

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 authorities will have their early years hourly funding rates reduced in 2018-19; and what percentage that reduction in funding rate will be for each local authority so affected.
tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
uin	130833
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/03/2018 answer text <p>No local authority (LA) has seen a reduction in their early years hourly funding by more than 5% for three and four year olds. There has been no change to funding for two year olds.</p><p> </p><p>Each of the 21 LAs with reduced rates’ percentage change can be found in the attached table.</p><p> </p><p>Full details on Early Years funding rates to local authorities can be found in: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/early-years-national-funding-formula-allocations-and-guidance" target="_blank">https://<br> www.gov.uk/government/publications/early-years-national-funding-formula-allocations-and-guidance</a>.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 13/03/2018 15:02:58 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi attachment 1 file name 130833 Attachment.pdf title 130833 Table
tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell

855548

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	Young People: Carers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether his Department has made an assessment of the adequacy of support for young carers in education.
tabling member constituency	Bexleyheath and Crayford
tabling member printed	David Evennett
uin	130855
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/03/2018 answer text <p>Young carers make an enormous contribution and the government is determined to ensure that individuals get the support they need and are able to live a full life beyond their caring responsibilities. We have invested over £3 million in funding Carers Trust and The Children’s Society since 2011 to support local authorities in planning, commissioning and delivering services that provide better outcomes for young carers.</p><p> </p><p>The law was changed in 2014 to improve how young carers and their families are identified and supported. Schools play a very important part in identifying pupils who are young carers and in offering them appropriate support. Ofsted’s Common Inspection Framework, which covers inspections of schools and colleges, identifies young carers as one of a number of groups of pupils that inspectors should be particularly alert to their outcomes. The Department of Health and Social Care has also trained school nurses to be champions for young carers, speaking up on their behalf and helping head teachers and governors decide how best to support them at school.</p><p> </p><p>Ahead of the forthcoming social care Green Paper on care and support for older people publication, the Department of Health and Social Care will shortly be publishing plan, setting out a cross-government programme of targeted work to support carers.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 13/03/2018 15:11:35 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	1198 label Biography information for Sir David Evennett

855690

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	Residential Care Leadership Board
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the membership is of the Residential Care Leadership Board.
tabling member constituency	Stockport
tabling member printed	Ann Coffey
uin	130996
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/03/2018 answer text <p>Sir Alan Wood was appointed as chair of the Residential Care Leadership Board on the 7 November 2017. Sir Alan Wood is a public appointee and his selection followed a competitive recruitment process. Further appointments of unsalaried board members will be made in due course by the department, in consultation with the chair.</p><p> </p><p>In order to make sure that the board’s efforts are focused on the areas that will have the most impact, Sir Alan Wood is undertaking a programme of engagement with the sector to understand the key issues. This will enable us to determine the right membership to take forward the work programme.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 13/03/2018 16:11:39 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	458 label Biography information for Ann Coffey

855778

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	Academies
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what number and proportion of academy schools have received a financial notice to improve in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
uin	131083
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/03/2018 answer text <p>Academy trust accountability is founded on a clear framework communicated and regulated by the Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA), with effective oversight and compliance based on proportionate risk assessment, and robust intervention when concerns arise.</p><p> </p><p>The ESFA works with trusts to prevent financial instability and enable them to recover their financial position and return to stable governance. When we intervene, we publish financial notices to improve (FNtI) and investigation reports to be transparent and so that lessons can be learned. The sector remains in a strong position, with just over 1 per cent of academy trusts subject to an active FNtI.</p><p> </p><p>Published FNtIs are available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/academies-financial-notices-to-improve" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/academies-financial-notices-to-improve</a>.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 13/03/2018 16:08:11 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell