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988716

registered interest
date	16/10/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Special Educational Needs: Hearing Impairment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of funding available to local authorities for specialist education services for deaf children.
tabling member constituency	Colne Valley
tabling member printed	Thelma Walker
uin	180286
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2018 answer text <p>We want children with special educational needs and disabilities to be able to reach their full potential.</p><p>Nationally, high needs funding has risen by £1 billion since 2013-14, to just under £6 billion in 2018-19. Allocations for individual local authorities can be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dedicated-schools-grant-dsg-2018-to-2019" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dedicated-schools-grant-dsg-2018-to-2019</a>.</p><p>However, we recognise that costs have increased which is why we are providing extensive support to schools to deliver the best value possible with available resources. This includes a high needs benchmarking tool to allow local authorities to compare their spending in this area.</p><p>We are monitoring the impact of our national funding formula on high needs and are keeping the overall level of funding under review.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 22/10/2018 12:18:20 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4649 label Biography information for Thelma Walker

964173

registered interest
date	03/09/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Foster Care: Care Leavers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the report, Keep on Caring published by the Government in July 2016, when his Department plans to undertake a review the implementation of the policy of staying put.
tabling member constituency	Colne Valley
tabling member printed	Thelma Walker
uin	169796
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2018 answer text <p>The department keeps the Staying Put policy under constant review by monitoring data from local authorities showing take-up amongst young people, engagement with the sector and looking at information from Ofsted inspections of local authorities. Staying Put was also considered as part of the independent fostering review undertaken by Sir Martin Narey and Mark Owers, published in February 2018.</p><p>Staying Put has been welcomed by care leavers and the sector. It is recognised by them as a positive initiative and has helped thousands of care leavers to transition more smoothly from care to independence, providing continuity of relationships and care arrangements. The department will continue to gather information from the national rollout of Staying Put and in light of this, refine policy as required.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 11/09/2018 07:59:56 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4649 label Biography information for Thelma Walker

938644

registered interest
date	11/07/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Foster Care: Care Leavers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether his Department plans to fund Staying Put beyond 2019-20.
tabling member constituency	Colne Valley
tabling member printed	Thelma Walker
uin	163193
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2018 answer text <p>The cross-government care leaver strategy ‘Keep on Caring’ was published in July 2016. This confirmed that funding for Staying Put would continue to be paid to local authorities until the end of the Spending Review period. It also confirmed that the funding would be up-rated by 2% each year to take inflation into account. The amount of funding is therefore £23.3 million for the period 2018 to 2019 and £23.77 million for the period 2019 to 2020. Funding beyond March 2020 will be subject to the outcome of the next Spending Review.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 19/07/2018 17:09:14 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4649 label Biography information for Thelma Walker

905475

registered interest
date	16/05/2018
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, what proportion of (a) all children and (b) children eligible for free school meals reached a good level of development at the age of five in Colne Valley constituency in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Colne Valley
tabling member printed	Thelma Walker
uin	144980
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/05/2018 answer text <p>The requested data is in the attached table<strong>.</strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 25/05/2018 09:25:16 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi attachment 1 file name 144980_children_achieving_good_level_of_development_in_EY.pdf title children_achieving_good_level_of_development_in_EY
tabling member	4649 label Biography information for Thelma Walker

891444

registered interest
date	25/04/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Foster Care
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when he plans to publish the Government’s response to the reports on foster care in England from the (a) Education Committee and (b) Independent Review on foster care by Sir Martin Narey and Mark Owers.
tabling member constituency	Colne Valley
tabling member printed	Thelma Walker
uin	138103
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/04/2018 answer text <p>The government response to both the independent review ‘Foster Care in England’ and the Education Select Committee’s report on fostering will be published within the next three months.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 30/04/2018 16:10:03 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4649 label Biography information for Thelma Walker

872752

registered interest
date	27/03/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pupils: Period Poverty
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of providing sanitary products to girls in receipt of free school meals.
tabling member constituency	Colne Valley
tabling member printed	Thelma Walker
uin	134565
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/04/2018 answer text <p>Our current Sex and Relationships Education guidance encourages schools to make adequate and sensitive arrangements to help girls cope with menstruation. Schools have discretion over how they use their funding and can make sanitary products available to pupils if they identify this as a barrier to attainment or attendance. We support schools in addressing the needs of disadvantaged pupils through the provision of the Pupil Premium, equivalent to almost £2.5 billion of additional funding this year alone.</p><p> </p><p>We are committed to ensuring that any action to support disadvantaged pupils is based on robust evidence. We have sought to establish whether there has been any rigorous national assessment of the prevalence of period poverty or its impact on attendance, however none appears available. We reached out to school stakeholders in July 2017 through the Association of School and College Leaders forum asking for contributions on the issue and received a very limited response. As promised in the House, we have reviewed our absence statistics and our recently published analysis shows no evidence that period poverty has a significant nation-wide impact on school attendance. We do want to find out more; this is why we intend to place questions on these issues in the department’s 2018 surveys for pupils and senior school leaders.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 05/04/2018 16:24:50 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4649 label Biography information for Thelma Walker

823653

registered interest
date	16/01/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pre-school Education: Special Educational Needs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans his Department has to review funding streams for children who are not of reception age to access additional support services whilst at nursery.
tabling member constituency	Colne Valley
tabling member printed	Thelma Walker
uin	123109
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/01/2018 answer text <p>Funding for children’s services is part of the wider local government finance settlement. The Spending Review in 2015 made available more than £200 billion to councils for local services, including children’s services, up to 2019-20.</p><p> </p><p>By 2019-20 we will be spending around £6 billion on childcare support. This includes, for example, the Disability Access Fund.</p><p> </p><p>Budgets after 2019-20 will be set at the next Spending Review.</p><p><strong><br> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 24/01/2018 15:41:01 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4649 label Biography information for Thelma Walker

820744

registered interest
date	11/01/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Free School Meals: Colne Valley
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many pupils in the Colne Valley constituency would be entitled to free school meals under the pre-universal free school meals system.
tabling member constituency	Colne Valley
tabling member printed	Thelma Walker
uin	122162
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2018 answer text <p>The number of pupils’ eligible for and claiming free school meals under the pre-universal free school meals system is published and can be found here: <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 parliamentary constituency.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 19/01/2018 10:53:56 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4649 label Biography information for Thelma Walker