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registered interest
date	03/07/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Further Education and Secondary Education: Sanitary Products
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will publish the Government's plans to provide free sanitary products in secondary schools and colleges from September 2019.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
uin	272793
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2019 answer text <p>No-one should be held back from reaching their potential because of their gender or background. My right hon. Friend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer announced in his Spring Statement on 13 March 2019 that the Department for Education will lead a scheme to provide access to free sanitary products in all secondary schools and colleges across England. On 16 April 2019, I announced that funding would be extended to cover need in primary schools and that national roll-out would take place in early 2020.</p><p>The department published an Invitation to Tender for the Period Products scheme on 15 June 2019, and we intend to award this contract in Autumn 2019. We are also working with stakeholders to develop guidance that will support institutions in embedding this scheme.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 08/07/2019 14:35:43 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

1077347

registered interest
date	25/02/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children in Care: Ethnic Groups
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer on 19 February to Question 221613 on Children in Care: Ethnic Groups, whether the figures provided include children in care under Section 20 Voluntary Arrangements.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
uin	225441
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/02/2019 answer text <p>The figures provided to question <a href="https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-questions-answers/?page=1&amp;max=20&amp;questiontype=AllQuestions&amp;house=commons%2clords&amp;uin=221613" target="_blank">221613</a> included all looked after legal statuses, excluding children looked after under an agreed series of short term arrangements, and so did include children in care under Section 20 Voluntary Arrangements.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 28/02/2019 15:59:50 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

1061080

registered interest
date	14/02/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children in Care: Ethnic Groups
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 looked-after children whose ethnicity is any other white background in each year since 2000.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
uin	221613
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/02/2019 answer text <p>This information requested is shown in the attached table.</p><p>Further information on the ethnic breakdown of looked-after children is published in the statistical releases ‘Children looked-after in England including adoption’ at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-looked-after-children" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-looked-after-children</a>.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 221618 question first answered 19/02/2019 17:50:26 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi attachment 1 file name 221613, 221618 Children_looked_after_at_31_March.xlsx title 221613_221618_Children_looked_after_at_31_March
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

1061121

registered interest
date	14/02/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children in Care: Ethnic Groups
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 total number of looked-after children whose ethnicity is Any other white background in each of the last nine years.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
uin	221618
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/02/2019 answer text <p>This information requested is shown in the attached table.</p><p>Further information on the ethnic breakdown of looked-after children is published in the statistical releases ‘Children looked-after in England including adoption’ at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-looked-after-children" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-looked-after-children</a>.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 221613 question first answered 19/02/2019 17:50:26 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi attachment 1 file name 221613, 221618 Children_looked_after_at_31_March.xlsx title 221613_221618_Children_looked_after_at_31_March
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

1054723

registered interest
date	04/02/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Mental Health: Children in Care
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the pilots of new mental health assessments for looked-after children, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that those new models will be able to assess the mental health needs of unaccompanied young people.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
uin	216194
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2019 answer text <p>We have appointed a consortium of partners, led by the Anna Freud Centre, to support delivery of the pilots. The consortium brings together significant expertise on the mental health of looked-after children, including Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children (UASC), and will work closely with selected sites to use their own learning and expertise to inform the project. The assessment framework will be tailored to the specific groups of looked-after children that each pilot site chooses to focus on which, for some sites, will be UASC.</p><p> </p><p>The pilots will also draw on the recommendations made by the Expert Working Group, which was commissioned by Department for Education and Department for Health and Social Care. The Expert Working Group found that the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) should be supported by a broader set of measures. The pilots will therefore use the SDQ alongside other assessment tools.</p><p> </p><p>We will be conducting a full evaluation of the pilots. This will include evidence of effectiveness for specific groups of looked-after children as well as the cohort as a whole.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 216197 question first answered 07/02/2019 16:49:50 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

1054727

registered interest
date	04/02/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children in Care: Mental Illness
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment his Department has made of the effectiveness of the Strength and Difficulties Questionnaire in properly recognising trauma-related mental health conditions in looked-after children.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
uin	216197
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2019 answer text <p>We have appointed a consortium of partners, led by the Anna Freud Centre, to support delivery of the pilots. The consortium brings together significant expertise on the mental health of looked-after children, including Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children (UASC), and will work closely with selected sites to use their own learning and expertise to inform the project. The assessment framework will be tailored to the specific groups of looked-after children that each pilot site chooses to focus on which, for some sites, will be UASC.</p><p> </p><p>The pilots will also draw on the recommendations made by the Expert Working Group, which was commissioned by Department for Education and Department for Health and Social Care. The Expert Working Group found that the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) should be supported by a broader set of measures. The pilots will therefore use the SDQ alongside other assessment tools.</p><p> </p><p>We will be conducting a full evaluation of the pilots. This will include evidence of effectiveness for specific groups of looked-after children as well as the cohort as a whole.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 216194 question first answered 07/02/2019 16:49:50 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

942517

registered interest
date	16/07/2018
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, what supplementary funding is available for maintained nursery schools to apply for.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
uin	164356
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2018 answer text <p>Maintained nursery schools (MNS) make an important contribution to improving the lives of some of our most disadvantaged children. In recognition of the costs that MNS experience over and above other providers, we are providing supplementary funding – additional to funding received under the Early Years National Funding Formula (EYNFF) – of around £60 million a year to enable local authorities to protect MNS pre-EYNFF funding levels until 2019-20.</p><p>There is one MNS in Kingston-upon-Hull, McMillan Nursery School. The Department for Education allocated the City of Kingston-upon-Hull £187,575.60 in MNS supplementary funding for the 2017-18 financial year.</p><p>It is for individual local authorities to make decisions on the allocation of funding, including supplementary funding, to their MNS. Local authorities are required to report their planned spending in their section 251 returns, which are published via the early years funding proforma 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>Our supplementary funding provides MNS with stability whilst we develop a long-term solution for them. An important part of this will be understanding the value for money that they offer, and new research will report on this later in the year.</p><p>We continue to meet with a wide variety of early years and MNS sector representatives on a wide variety of topics, including MNS funding.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 164357 164358 164359 164360 164361 164362 164363 question first answered 19/07/2018 16:55:39 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

942518

registered interest
date	16/07/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pre-school Education: Expenditure
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much funding the Government has provided to maintained nursery schools in each of the least eight years.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
uin	164357
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2018 answer text <p>Maintained nursery schools (MNS) make an important contribution to improving the lives of some of our most disadvantaged children. In recognition of the costs that MNS experience over and above other providers, we are providing supplementary funding – additional to funding received under the Early Years National Funding Formula (EYNFF) – of around £60 million a year to enable local authorities to protect MNS pre-EYNFF funding levels until 2019-20.</p><p>There is one MNS in Kingston-upon-Hull, McMillan Nursery School. The Department for Education allocated the City of Kingston-upon-Hull £187,575.60 in MNS supplementary funding for the 2017-18 financial year.</p><p>It is for individual local authorities to make decisions on the allocation of funding, including supplementary funding, to their MNS. Local authorities are required to report their planned spending in their section 251 returns, which are published via the early years funding proforma 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>Our supplementary funding provides MNS with stability whilst we develop a long-term solution for them. An important part of this will be understanding the value for money that they offer, and new research will report on this later in the year.</p><p>We continue to meet with a wide variety of early years and MNS sector representatives on a wide variety of topics, including MNS funding.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 164356 164358 164359 164360 164361 164362 164363 question first answered 19/07/2018 16:55:39 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

942519

registered interest
date	16/07/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pre-school Education: Kingston upon Hull
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much funding the Government has provided to maintained nursery schools in Hull in each of the least eight years.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
uin	164358
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2018 answer text <p>Maintained nursery schools (MNS) make an important contribution to improving the lives of some of our most disadvantaged children. In recognition of the costs that MNS experience over and above other providers, we are providing supplementary funding – additional to funding received under the Early Years National Funding Formula (EYNFF) – of around £60 million a year to enable local authorities to protect MNS pre-EYNFF funding levels until 2019-20.</p><p>There is one MNS in Kingston-upon-Hull, McMillan Nursery School. The Department for Education allocated the City of Kingston-upon-Hull £187,575.60 in MNS supplementary funding for the 2017-18 financial year.</p><p>It is for individual local authorities to make decisions on the allocation of funding, including supplementary funding, to their MNS. Local authorities are required to report their planned spending in their section 251 returns, which are published via the early years funding proforma 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>Our supplementary funding provides MNS with stability whilst we develop a long-term solution for them. An important part of this will be understanding the value for money that they offer, and new research will report on this later in the year.</p><p>We continue to meet with a wide variety of early years and MNS sector representatives on a wide variety of topics, including MNS funding.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 164356 164357 164359 164360 164361 164362 164363 question first answered 19/07/2018 16:55:39 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

942520

registered interest
date	16/07/2018
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, whether maintained nursery schools will continue to be eligible to apply for supplementary funding beyond 2020.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
uin	164359
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2018 answer text <p>Maintained nursery schools (MNS) make an important contribution to improving the lives of some of our most disadvantaged children. In recognition of the costs that MNS experience over and above other providers, we are providing supplementary funding – additional to funding received under the Early Years National Funding Formula (EYNFF) – of around £60 million a year to enable local authorities to protect MNS pre-EYNFF funding levels until 2019-20.</p><p>There is one MNS in Kingston-upon-Hull, McMillan Nursery School. The Department for Education allocated the City of Kingston-upon-Hull £187,575.60 in MNS supplementary funding for the 2017-18 financial year.</p><p>It is for individual local authorities to make decisions on the allocation of funding, including supplementary funding, to their MNS. Local authorities are required to report their planned spending in their section 251 returns, which are published via the early years funding proforma 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>Our supplementary funding provides MNS with stability whilst we develop a long-term solution for them. An important part of this will be understanding the value for money that they offer, and new research will report on this later in the year.</p><p>We continue to meet with a wide variety of early years and MNS sector representatives on a wide variety of topics, including MNS funding.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 164356 164357 164358 164360 164361 164362 164363 question first answered 19/07/2018 16:55:39 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson