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824418

registered interest
date	17/01/2018
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 implications for his policies are of the survey of childcare providers in England conducted by the Pre School Learning Alliance in December 2017.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	123219
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2018 answer text <p>This government is committed to helping working families with accessible, affordable childcare. We are already starting to see how 30 hours is making a real difference to the lives of families across the country. This builds on the success of our 12 early delivery areas, which gave 30 hours to over 15,000 children. The independent evaluation of these early delivery areas showed that providers were willing and able to offer 30 hours places, as well as a number of positive impacts on families’ finances and their ability to work.</p><p>We have commissioned independent evaluators, Frontier Economics with NatCen Social Research and researchers from the University of East London, to conduct an evaluation of the first year of national rollout of 30 hours across England.</p><p>We will consider the survey of childcare providers in England conducted by the Pre School Learning Alliance alongside other evidence we collect, including our nationally representative surveys of parents and providers.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 22/01/2018 17:48:27 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

824420

registered interest
date	17/01/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Disadvantaged
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether his Department has plans to conduct a review of support available for vulnerable children.
tabling member constituency	South Shields
tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
uin	123221
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2018 answer text <p>The department has committed to undertake a review into children in need, to understand the challenges these children face and the support available to meet these challenges through schools and children’s social care. This commitment was made in the ‘Unlocking Talent, Fulfilling Potential’ Social Mobility Action Plan in December 2017. The action plan is viewable here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/667690/Social_Mobility_Action_Plan_-_for_printing.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/667690/Social_Mobility_Action_Plan_-_for_printing.pdf</a>.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 22/01/2018 17:53:36 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

824423

registered interest
date	17/01/2018
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 proportion of early years settings are accessible for people with disabilities.
tabling member constituency	Batley and Spen
tabling member printed	Tracy Brabin
uin	123224
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2018 answer text <p>We do not collect the data requested.</p><p> </p><p>There is a duty on early years providers in the Equality Act 2010 to not discriminate against children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) or whose parents have SEND. Employers must make reasonable adjustments to make sure workers with disabilities are not substantially disadvantaged when doing their jobs.</p><p> </p><p>The Early Years Foundation Stage Framework requires all early years providers to have in place arrangements to identify and support children with SEND and to promote equality of opportunity for all the children in their care. We also have a range of measures put in place to ensure that local areas can put the right support in place for children with SEND and their families to access early education, including the Disability Access Fund, and the SEN Inclusion Fund.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 22/01/2018 17:56:23 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4588 label Biography information for Tracy Brabin

824444

registered interest
date	17/01/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	UN Committee on the Rights of the Child
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 20 July 2017 to Question 4616, how many times the UNCRC Action Group has met; what the membership of that group is; what recommendations that group has made; and which of those recommendations have been carried out.
tabling member constituency	South Shields
tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
uin	123245
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2018 answer text <p>The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) Action Group has met four times, most recently on 9 January this year.</p><p> </p><p>The UNCRC Action Group (the Group) is jointly chaired by the Department for Education and Children’s Rights Alliance England (CRAE). Its members are:</p><p>Action for Children;</p><p>The Children’s Commissioner for England;</p><p>The Children’s Society;</p><p>British Youth Council;</p><p>Children England;</p><p>Coram;</p><p>Rights Watch UK;</p><p>UNICEF UK;</p><p>National Children’s Bureau;</p><p>NSPCC;</p><p>Equality and Human Rights Commission;</p><p>Ministry of Justice;</p><p>Joint Commission on Human Rights; and</p><p>The Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law.</p><p><br>The Group does not make formal recommendations. Work taken forward as a result of the Group’s discussions include production of two age-related and child friendly versions of the concluding observations, a message from the former Minister of State for Children and Families, my hon. Friend for Scarborough and Whitby (Robert Goodwill) on Universal Children’s Day (20 November) to all government departments, and production of a video to accompany the launch of CRAE’s annual publication ‘State of Children’s Rights in England’ in December 2017. The department is also working with the Group to put in place a children’s rights training package and children’s rights impact assessment for civil servants.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 22/01/2018 17:32:11 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

824512

registered interest
date	17/01/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	School Meals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what information his Department holds on the number of school catering programmes which received nutritional and dietary training prior to setting menus in 2017.
tabling member constituency	Leicester East
tabling member printed	Keith Vaz
uin	123313
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2018 answer text <p>The department does not hold this information.</p><p> </p><p>Our department supports the provision of nutritious food in schools to enable pupils to be well nourished, develop healthy eating habits and to concentrate and learn in school. Our school food standards regulate the food and drink provided during the school day, and foods high in fat, salt and sugar, as well as low quality reformed or reconstituted foods, are restricted. Resources such as the school food plan website can be used by schools and school caterers to ensure their menus comply with the standards.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 25/01/2018 17:03:32 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	338 label Biography information for Keith Vaz

824537

registered interest
date	17/01/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Free School Meals: Westmorland and Lonsdale
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many families are entitled to free school meals under the pre-universal infant free school meals system in Westmorland and Lonsdale constituency.
tabling member constituency	Westmorland and Lonsdale
tabling member printed	Tim Farron
uin	123338
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2018 answer text <p>The proportion of pupils eligible for and claiming free school meals under the pre-universal free school meals system is published in the annual ‘Schools, pupils and their characteristics’ statistical release at:</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 22/01/2018 17:46:45 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	1591 label Biography information for Tim Farron

824608

registered interest
date	17/01/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Free School Meals: Eastbourne
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many families in Eastbourne would be entitled to free school meals under the pre-universal credit free school meals system.
tabling member constituency	Eastbourne
tabling member printed	Stephen Lloyd
uin	123409
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2018 answer text <p>We don’t differentiate between pupils eligible for free school meals under the pre-universal credit free school meals system and those only eligible due to the universal credit free school meals system. The number of pupils eligible for and claiming free school meals is published in the file “Underlying data: SFR28/2017” in the annual ‘Schools, pupils and their characteristics’ statistical release. For 2017 the information can be found at:</p><p><a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/schools-pupils-and-their-characteristics-january-2017" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/statistics/schools-pupils-and-their-characteristics-january-2017</a>.</p><p>Information for earlier years can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-school-and-pupil-numbers" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-school-and-pupil-numbers</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 25/01/2018 16:47:05 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	3968 label Biography information for Stephen Lloyd

824685

registered interest
date	17/01/2018
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 Cornwall in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	North Cornwall
tabling member printed	Scott Mann
uin	123486
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2018 answer text <p>The department collects data on the weekly regional 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> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 25/01/2018 14:53:50 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4496 label Biography information for Scott Mann

824688

registered interest
date	17/01/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Academies: Bethnal Green and Bow
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many schools in Bethnal Green and Bow constituency have become an academy in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Bethnal Green and Bow
tabling member printed	Rushanara Ali
uin	123489
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2018 answer text <p>Two schools in Bethnal Green and Bow constituency have become academies since 2010. The Green Spring Academy Shoreditch opened in 2012 and the Old Ford Primary School opened in 2013.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 25/01/2018 16:38:02 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4138 label Biography information for Rushanara Ali

824691

registered interest
date	17/01/2018
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 assessment the Government has made of the regional disparities in funded childcare places in England.
tabling member constituency	Bethnal Green and Bow
tabling member printed	Rushanara Ali
uin	123492
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2018 answer text <p>On 19 December 2017, we published ’30 hours free childcare: autumn term 2017’ which showed for the first time the number of children in a 30 hours place.</p><p> </p><p>This showed that, based on local authority returns to a voluntary survey, an estimated 202,800 children were in a 30 hours place. At a national level, this was 90% of the total number of codes generated. At a regional level this ranged from 85% in the South East to 97% in the North East.</p><p> </p><p>This is the first term of delivering a new national programme and it is encouraging that no region has under 85% of children with a 30 hours code in a 30 hours place. We cannot account for a parents’ preference and behaviour which could, of course, vary across the country depending on individual circumstances.</p><p> </p><p>Our new Early Years National Funding Formula includes an ‘Area Cost Adjustment’ to reflect the fact that the costs of delivering childcare vary between different local authority areas. We will monitor all 30 hours data over the first year of delivery to understand how the new policy is being delivered and identify any operational challenges.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 25/01/2018 16:50:46 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4138 label Biography information for Rushanara Ali