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577499

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date	07/09/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Department for Education: EU Nationals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many citizens of other EU countries work in her Department, its agencies and non-departmental public bodies.
tabling member constituency	Streatham
tabling member printed	Mr Chuka Umunna
uin	45508
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/09/2016 answer text <p>The Department does not keep records of whether its employees are citizens of other EU countries. Departmental staff includes Executive Agencies, but excludes Non-Departmental Public Bodies and all non-payroll staff as this information is not held centrally.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 16/09/2016 13:32:58 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4128 label Biography information for Chuka Umunna

577501

registered interest
date	07/09/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pupils: Transgender People
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 ensure that appropriate pastoral and other support is available in schools for people who identify as transgender.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Northfield
tabling member printed	Richard Burden
uin	45468
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/09/2016 answer text <p>We are committed to building a society where transgender people feel safe and supported. While individual schools are best placed to decide what pastoral support to put in place, they do this in the framework set by the public sector equality duty.</p><p> </p><p>The provisions of the duty are not intended to be burdensome but set some clear expectations. The Department’s guidance on how the duty applies to schools can be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/equality-act-2010-advice-for-schools" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/equality-act-2010-advice-for-schools</a>.</p><p> </p><p>It sets out that the duty includes having due regard to the need to advance equality of opportunity for pupils with protected characteristics – including those who identify as transgender – and schools have to publish information on how they are complying.</p><p> </p><p>The guidance also sets out that advancing equality of opportunity involves, in particular:</p><p>(a) removing or minimising disadvantages suffered by people which are connected to a particular characteristic they have;</p><p>(b) taking steps to meet the particular needs of people who have a particular characteristic; and</p><p>(c) encouraging people who have a particular characteristic to participate fully in any activities.</p><p> </p><p>To further support LGB&amp;T pupils we recently announced £4.4 million in funding over the next two years to support anti-bullying schemes. This includes £2.8 million for six projects tackling homophobic, transphobic and biphobic (HBT) bullying. Bullying is best tackled as part of a whole-school approach to create inclusive environments where pupils get appropriate support and the HBT-focused projects will support schools with doing that.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 15/09/2016 17:11:32 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	301 label Biography information for Richard Burden

577653

registered interest
date	07/09/2016
answering body	Women and Equalities
answering dept id	31
answering dept short name	Women and Equalities
answering dept sort name	Women and Equalities
hansard heading	Transgender People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what steps the Government is taking to (a) ensure that support services for transgender people are made more accessible and localised and (b) enhance existing transgender support services.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Northfield
tabling member printed	Richard Burden
uin	45470
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/09/2016 answer text <p>The Government is dedicated to improving the lives of transgender people and ensuring that barriers to their success are removed from society.</p><p> </p><p>This is reflected in the Government response to the Women and Equality Select Committee inquiry into transgender equality, where we set out a range of initiatives to improve the lives of transgender people. This includes improving the way people are supported by gender identity services through new training of NHS staff. The Government response can be accessed at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/transgender-equality-report-government-response" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/transgender-equality-report-government-response</a>.</p><p> </p><p>This is not the only work we have delivered. In November 2015, the Government issued ‘Providing services for transgender customers: a guide’, which set out advice for all service providers to ensure that transgender people are welcomed, included and valued as customers, clients, users or members, and that they are treated fairly and appropriately. This can be accessed at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/providing-services-for-transgender-customers-a-guide" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/providing-services-for-transgender-customers-a-guide</a>.</p><p> </p><p>Alongside those initiatives, the Government will continue to push forward action to tackle transgender inequality and improve services for transgender people.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 15/09/2016 17:31:37 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	301 label Biography information for Richard Burden

577654

registered interest
date	07/09/2016
answering body	Women and Equalities
answering dept id	31
answering dept short name	Women and Equalities
answering dept sort name	Women and Equalities
hansard heading	Government Equalities Office: Sanitation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what toilet facilities there are for transgender people at the Government Equalities Office at (a) the Sanctuaries Building, London and (b) Piccadilly Gate, Manchester.
tabling member constituency	Preston
tabling member printed	Mr Mark Hendrick
uin	45458
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/09/2016 answer text <p>The Government is committed to ensuring that transgender people are free from discrimination, including in the provision of facilities and services. In Department for Education buildings, transgender people are therefore free to use the toilets that match the gender with which they identify.</p><p> </p><p>There are also twelve accessible toilet facilities in Sanctuary Buildings, London and six in Piccadilly Gate, Manchester, which are gender neutral. In line with the Government Equalities Office publication “Recruiting and Retaining Transgender staff – a guide for employers”, which suggests that departments should consider introducing gender neutral toilets when carrying out refurbishments or introducing new toilets into their buildings, gender-neutral toilet facilities will also be provided at the Department’s future London office at the Old Admiralty Buildings.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 13/09/2016 16:59:58 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	473 label Biography information for Sir Mark Hendrick

577655

registered interest
date	07/09/2016
answering body	Women and Equalities
answering dept id	31
answering dept short name	Women and Equalities
answering dept sort name	Women and Equalities
hansard heading	Civil Partnerships and Marriage
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, how many (a) civil partnerships, (b) conversions of civil partnerships into marriages and (c) same sex marriages have taken place since 10 December 2014.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	45544
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/09/2016 answer text <p>According to the latest data from the Office for National Statistics:</p><p>(a) In 2015, a total of 861 civil partnerships were formed in England and Wales.</p><p>(b) 7,732 couples in England and Wales converted their existing civil partnership into a marriage between 10 December 2014 and 30 June 2015.</p><p>(c) A total of 7,366 marriages were formed in England and Wales between same sex couples between 29 March 2014 (when the legislation came into effect) and 30 June 2015.</p><p>This information is available online at: <a href="http://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages" target="_blank">http://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages</a>.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 15/09/2016 17:38:35 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

576793

registered interest
date	06/09/2016
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 assessment her Department has made of the ability of maintained nursery schools and children's centres to remain financially viable following recent changes to their funding.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Erdington
tabling member printed	Jack Dromey
uin	45260
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2016 answer text <p>There have been no changes to the funding of maintained nursery schools and children centres. We are currently consulting on the introduction of an Early Years National Funding Formula to ensure a fairer allocation of early years funding to local authorities. The consultation document sets out our intention to provide supplementary funding for maintained nursery schools for at least two years in order to provide stability to the nursery school sector while they explore how to become more sustainable in the longer term, including exploiting the scope for efficiencies.</p><p> </p><p>Local authorities have a duty under the Childcare Act 2006 to ensure sufficient children’s centres to meet the needs of local families. Local authorities must meet their statutory duties on children’s centres from funding that forms part of the Department for Communities and Local Government Business Rates Retention Scheme. In addition, other Government funding, including that for public health, adult skills training and troubled families may also be used locally to support services delivered wholly, or in part, through children’s centres. Local authorities must consult fully before any significant changes are made to children’s centre services.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 12/09/2016 15:39:15 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	3913 label Biography information for Jack Dromey

576795

registered interest
date	06/09/2016
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 (a) nursery schools, (b) day-care facilities and (c) children's centres in (i) Birmingham, Erdington constituency, (ii) the West Midlands and (iii) the UK have (A) declared insolvency and (B) closed due to funding shortages in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Erdington
tabling member printed	Jack Dromey
uin	45259
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2016 answer text <p>Nursery Schools</p><p> </p><p>The Department for Education's register of educational establishments in England and Wales indicates that from the 31 August 2013 to 31 August 2016 eight maintained nursery schools closed, and 10 amalgamated or merged with another school. No closures were recorded in Birmingham, Erdington or the West Midlands.</p><p> </p><p>The Department does not collect information on the reasons for the closure of nursery schools. Local authorities have a duty to secure sufficient childcare in their local area. In consultation with their Schools Forum, they are responsible for deciding how best to distribute early years funding across their locality.</p><p> </p><p>There is a presumption against the closure of any nursery school. The local authority must consult on any proposed closures, clearly demonstrating the rationale for so doing.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Day-care facilities</p><p> </p><p>The Department does not collect data on the number of childcare businesses that have closed. The Childcare and Early Years Provider Survey shows that the childcare market continues to expand.</p><p> </p><ul><li>The number of registered places in full day care settings rose by ten per cent between 2011 and 2013.</li></ul><p> </p><ul><li>The long term increase in the number of full day care providers continued in 2013. In total there were 17,900 full day care settings in 2013 (compared to 17,600 in 2011).</li></ul><p> </p><p>Children’s centres</p><p> </p><p>Local authorities have a duty under the Childcare Act 2006 to ensure sufficient children’s centres to meet the needs of local families. The Department does not collect information on the reasons for the closure of children’s centres.</p><p> </p><p>According to data supplied by local authorities, a total of 259 children’s centres closed in the calendar years, 2013, 2014 and 2015. Forty nine of these closures were in the West Midlands. None of these were in Birmingham.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 12/09/2016 14:39:50 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	3913 label Biography information for Jack Dromey

576930

registered interest
date	06/09/2016
answering body	Women and Equalities
answering dept id	31
answering dept short name	Women and Equalities
answering dept sort name	Women and Equalities
hansard heading	Government Equalities Office: Females
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what steps the Government Equalities Office is taking to implement the actions identified for it in the Government's Ending Violence against Women and Girls 2016-2020, published in March 2016; and when a member of staff from the Government Equalities Office last attended a Violence against Women and Girls Stakeholder Meeting chaired by the Home Office.
tabling member constituency	Preston
tabling member printed	Mr Mark Hendrick
uin	45283
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/09/2016 answer text <p>The Government is committed to delivering the Strategy published in March. The table below shows the progress made in delivering the actions allocated to the Government Equalities Office (GEO).</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>REF</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>ACTION</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>PROGRESS</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>Develop new guidance in consultation with teachers for PHSE lessons specifically about gender equality (Apr 2016).</p></td><td><p>GEO has been working with the PSHE Association to consult teachers on how best to deliver this commitment.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>Fund the Freedom Charity to expand the ‘Train the Trainers’ project…. (Apr 2016).</p></td><td><p>GEO funded the Freedom Charity to expand their ‘Train the Trainers’ project to reach a greater number of communities and empower teachers to deal with the topic of forced marriage sensitively and confidently. This funding enabled an additional 3,620 students and 1,230 staff to learn about forced marriage with Freedom.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>Launch the second phase of the national prevention campaign to challenge abuse in teenage relationships and promote understanding of health relationships and consent – including among LGB&amp;T teenagers (Feb 2016).</p></td><td><p>GEO, in partnership with the Home Office, launched <em>Disrespect Nobody</em>, the second phase of the national prevention campaign to challenge abuse in teenage relationships. This included a TV advert, along with a dedicated website, blogs and guidance for teachers.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>8</p></td><td><p>Update Media Smart resources (with the Advertising Association) to help teachers and parents improve primary school children’s understanding of how gender is represented in the media and their resilience to negative content (Sep 2016).</p></td><td><p>GEO commissioned the charity Media Smart to develop a new resource to help teachers and parents improve primary school children’s understanding of how gender is represented in the media and their resilience to negative content. The resource was published in August 2016 and will be disseminated to schools this term.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>10</p></td><td><p>Conduct or commission mapping of the evidence base and initiatives that engage men, boys and bystanders in VAWG prevention to identify how Government can build on these initiatives to further social change (Apr 2017).</p></td><td><p>GEO is currently mapping the evidence base and initiatives that engage men, boys and bystanders in VAWG prevention, as well as meeting with stakeholders working in this area.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>28</p></td><td><p>Establish an official Government working group to map out current issues, prevalence, initiatives and barriers to addressing gendered online abuse to improve understanding and coordinate the response to online manifestations of VAWG (Dec 2016).</p></td><td><p>In partnership with the Home Office, GEO has established an official Government working group to do this. This work is ongoing.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>30</p></td><td><p>Continue to ensure victims of revenge pornography have access to bespoke support and advice about their right to have the images removed from websites (review Apr 2017).</p></td><td><p>GEO has funded the Revenge Porn Helpline for a further year to continue its important work supporting victims of revenge porn and working to have such images removed from websites.</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>GEO officials attend the Home Office-chaired cross-government working group on VAWG, the last of which took place on 23 June 2016. In addition, GEO officials have attended a number of Home Office-led consultation meetings with VAWG stakeholders, the last of which was in February 2016. Such discussions run alongside inter-ministerial meetings, the most recent of which I attended in June.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 15/09/2016 17:45:20 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	473 label Biography information for Sir Mark Hendrick

576931

registered interest
date	06/09/2016
answering body	Women and Equalities
answering dept id	31
answering dept short name	Women and Equalities
answering dept sort name	Women and Equalities
hansard heading	Government Equalities Office: Breastfeeding
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what activities (a) she and (b) officials of the Government Equalities Office have undertaken to promote breastfeeding during World Breastfeeding Week 2016.
tabling member constituency	Preston
tabling member printed	Mr Mark Hendrick
uin	45284
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/09/2016 answer text <p>The Government Equalities Office fully supports the work of the Department of Health, which leads Government work to promote breastfeeding.</p><ul><li>The Department of Health encourages exclusive breastfeeding for the first six months of life because of the health benefits to mothers and babies. We recognise that infant feeding choices are complex and based on individual and family circumstances and that not all mothers choose to or are able to breastfeed.</li><li>The Government is committed to supporting breastfeeding through the Healthy Child Programme. Breastfeeding is also included in the Public Health Outcomes Framework so that the improvements can be tracked, and action taken as needed.</li><li>Support and information is currently available to health professionals and parents through NHS Choices, the National Breastfeeding Helpline, UNICEF UK Baby Friendly Initiative and local peer support programmes.</li></ul> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 15/09/2016 17:41:46 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	473 label Biography information for Sir Mark Hendrick

576399

registered interest
date	05/09/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children's Centres: Finance
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 how much her Department will spend on children's centres in each of the next five years; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	45052
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/09/2016 answer text <p>Local authorities have a duty under the Childcare Act 2006 to ensure sufficient children’s centres to meet the needs of local families. Local authorities must meet their statutory duties on children’s centres from funding that forms part of the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) Business Rates Retention Scheme. In addition, other government funding, including that for public health, adult skills training and troubled families may also be used locally to support services delivered wholly, or in part, through children’s centres.</p><p> </p><p>Since April 2010 local authorities have reported actual and planned expenditure on children’s centres (regardless of the funding source) through annual Section 251 returns. This information is published at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/expenditure-on-education-children-and-young-peoples-services-academic-year-2011-to-2012" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/expenditure-on-education-children-and-young-peoples-services-academic-year-2011-to-2012</a> and: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/section-251-materials" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/section-251-materials</a></p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 44978 question first answered 08/09/2016 16:02:30 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham