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600614

registered interest
date	12/10/2016
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 distributional analysis her Department has conducted of changes to the early years funding formula; and what analysis her Department has made of which local authorities' funding will (a) increase and (b) decrease as a result of those changes.
tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
uin	48364
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2016 answer text <p>The distributional impact of our proposed changes to funding for three- and four-year-olds on local authorities, and the knock-on impact that this may have on providers, can be found here:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/early-years-funding-changes-to-funding-for-3-and-4-year-olds" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/early-years-funding-changes-to-funding-for-3-and-4-year-olds</a></p><p> </p><p>Under the proposals on which we recently consulted, three quarters of local authorities would have higher hourly funding rates. No local authority would see reductions in their hourly funding rate of more than 10%, and only 12% of local authorities would see reductions of more than 5%.</p><p> </p><p>As a result of our proposals, indicatively, providers in the vast majority of local authorities can expect to see their average hourly funding rate increase.</p><p> </p><p>We are currently considering responses to the consultation.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 17/10/2016 14:44:14 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell

600617

registered interest
date	12/10/2016
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 allocate additional quality supplements to childcare and early education providers.
tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
uin	48365
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2016 answer text <p>Data from local authority planned spend for 2016-17 shows 67 local authorities have allocated funding through quality supplements to their early years providers. These local authorities include:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Barking and Dagenham</p></td><td><p>Devon</p></td><td><p>Leicester</p></td><td><p>Sefton</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bath and North East Somerset</p></td><td><p>Dorset</p></td><td><p>Leicestershire</p></td><td><p>Shropshire</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Blackpool</p></td><td><p>Durham</p></td><td><p>Lewisham</p></td><td><p>Somerset</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bolton</p></td><td><p>Ealing</p></td><td><p>Liverpool</p></td><td><p>South Tyneside</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bracknell Forest</p></td><td><p>East Sussex</p></td><td><p>Manchester</p></td><td><p>Southampton</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Brighton and Hove</p></td><td><p>Hackney</p></td><td><p>Medway</p></td><td><p>Stockton-on-Tees</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bristol City of</p></td><td><p>Hampshire</p></td><td><p>Milton Keynes</p></td><td><p>Suffolk</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bromley</p></td><td><p>Haringey</p></td><td><p>Newham</p></td><td><p>Swindon</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Calderdale</p></td><td><p>Harrow</p></td><td><p>Norfolk</p></td><td><p>Trafford</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cambridgeshire</p></td><td><p>Hartlepool</p></td><td><p>North Lincolnshire</p></td><td><p>Waltham Forest</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Central Bedfordshire</p></td><td><p>Havering</p></td><td><p>Northamptonshire</p></td><td><p>West Berkshire</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cheshire East</p></td><td><p>Hillingdon</p></td><td><p>Nottingham</p></td><td><p>Westminster</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cheshire West and Chester</p></td><td><p>Hounslow</p></td><td><p>Oldham</p></td><td><p>Wigan</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>City of London</p></td><td><p>Islington</p></td><td><p>Poole</p></td><td><p>Windsor and Maidenhead</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cornwall</p></td><td><p>Kent</p></td><td><p>Portsmouth</p></td><td><p>Wirral</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cumbria</p></td><td><p>Knowsley</p></td><td><p>Rochdale</p></td><td><p>Wokingham</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Derby</p></td><td><p>Lambeth</p></td><td><p>Salford</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>This data is as reported by the local authorities.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 17/10/2016 14:46:20 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell

600618

registered interest
date	12/10/2016
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, how many and which local authorities offer more than 15 hours' free early education to three and four year-olds in (a) maintained nursery schools and nursery classes and (b) private, voluntary and independent childcare settings.
tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
uin	48366
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2016 answer text <p>Data from local authority planned spend for 2016-17 shows 17 local authorities have reported providing additional hours above the current 15 hours entitlement for three and four year olds. Local authorities providing additional hours in maintained nursery schools, nursery class and private, voluntary and independent childcare settings include:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Maintained Nursery Schools:</p></td><td><p>Nursery Class:</p></td><td><p>PVIs:</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Birmingham</p></td><td><p>Birmingham</p></td><td><p>Camden</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Brent</p></td><td><p>Brent</p></td><td><p>Greenwich</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Camden</p></td><td><p>Bury</p></td><td><p>Hackney</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Greenwich</p></td><td><p>Camden</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hackney</p></td><td><p>Greenwich</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Haringey</p></td><td><p>Hackney</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Islington</p></td><td><p>Haringey</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Kensington and Chelsea</p></td><td><p>Kensington and Chelsea</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lambeth</p></td><td><p>Lambeth</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lewisham</p></td><td><p>Lewisham</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Nottingham</p></td><td><p>Nottingham</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Surrey</p></td><td><p>Redcar and Cleveland</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wandsworth</p></td><td><p>Wandsworth</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Westminster</p></td><td><p>Warwickshire</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Westminster</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>This data is as reported by the local authorities.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 17/10/2016 14:45:19 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell

599409

registered interest
date	11/10/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Education: Reform
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will estimate the cost to the public purse of the Educational Excellence Everywhere White Paper consultation document.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Yardley
tabling member printed	Jess Phillips
uin	48033
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2016 answer text <p>The white paper set out our plans to deliver Educational Excellence Everywhere: so that every child and young person would be able to access world class provision, achieving to the best of his or her ability regardless of location, prior attainment and background.</p><p> </p><p>The white paper built on previous reforms which continue the historic devolution of power from local and central government to the best school leaders, providing not just autonomy, but also the support where it is needed to enable the school-led system to spread excellence across the country. The white paper proposed far reaching structural reform of our education system and many of the reforms and policies contained were funded by existing budgets announced in the 2015 Spending Review. For this reason my department has not separately made an estimate of the overall cost of the white paper.</p><p> </p><p>Alongside the publication of the White Paper, Budget 2016[1] announced funding for a number of the policies set out in the document, in particular an additional £640million across the Spending Review period, on top of the Department’s Spending Review settlement, to pay for school reform.</p><p>[1] <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/budget-2016-documents%20" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/budget-2016-documents</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 17/10/2016 14:36:52 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4370 label Biography information for Jess Phillips

599414

registered interest
date	11/10/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Department for Education: Consultants
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many times her Department has used the services of Denford Associates in each of the last five financial years; what work was so undertaken; and what the cost to the public purse was on each such occasion.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Yardley
tabling member printed	Jess Phillips
uin	48036
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2016 answer text <p>The Department’s financial systems have no record of Denford Associates as a supplier, and it has not made any payments to them in the last five financial years.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 17/10/2016 14:37:55 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4370 label Biography information for Jess Phillips

599416

registered interest
date	11/10/2016
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 recent assessment she has made of disparities in funding for early-years education across England; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Tewkesbury
tabling member printed	Mr Laurence Robertson
uin	47997
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2016 answer text <p>This Government recognises that the current funding system for three- and four-year-olds creates unfair and unjustifiable differences between local areas, and between types of providers.</p><p> </p><p>This is why we have recently consulted on our proposals for a national funding formula for the early years. Our proposals will ensure that funding for the early years is based on the costs of meeting the needs of local children, not on historic spending patterns.</p><p> </p><p>It is vital that funding is fairly distributed between different parts of the country and different types of providers, so that providers can deliver both the existing 15-hour entitlement and the extended 30-hour entitlement for working parents, on a sustainable basis.</p><p> </p><p>We are currently considering all responses to the consultation, and are planning to publish the Government’s response in the autumn.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 17/10/2016 16:23:39 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	253 label Biography information for Mr Laurence Robertson

595520

registered interest
date	07/10/2016
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 the Government is considering the introduction of a floor level on the overall rate available through the Early Years National Funding Formula.
tabling member constituency	Cheltenham
tabling member printed	Alex Chalk
uin	47178
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2016 answer text <p>The Government is investing £1billion of additional funding per year in the early years free entitlements, including £300million per year to increase the national average funding rate. We are determined to allocate this record investment fairly and transparently and that is why we have consulted on an Early Years National Funding Formula. This consultation has now closed and we will respond in the Autumn.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 17/10/2016 16:23:07 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4481 label Biography information for Alex Chalk

595521

registered interest
date	07/10/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Nurseries: Admissions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what financial support the Government has made available for local authorities to commission new nursery places in the event of current providers withdrawing or reducing their delivery of subsidised places.
tabling member constituency	Cheltenham
tabling member printed	Alex Chalk
uin	47179
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2016 answer text <p>The Government is committed to extending the free entitlement to childcare from 15 to 30 hours a week for working parents. We are clear that we need to get the funding right to ensure that providers are funded on a fair and sustainable basis. Our recent consultation set out our proposals to allocate our record level of funding fairly and transparently, with the maximum amount reaching providers. We will publish our response this autumn.</p><p> </p><p>We have recently made a substantial capital investment to support the creation of new 30 hours childcare places and our recently closed capital bid round made £40million available to local authorities working in partnership with providers in their area. We intend to announce successful project bids in mid-December 2016. We will also shortly be announcing the outcome of a competition to appoint a delivery contractor, who will provide support to ensure that all local authorities are ready to deliver the required number of free places in September 2017.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 17/10/2016 16:24:26 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4481 label Biography information for Alex Chalk

595530

registered interest
date	07/10/2016
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 the Government plans to consider extending the transitional funding for maintained nurseries to include children's centres providing early years education as part of the Early Years National Funding Formula review.
tabling member constituency	Cheltenham
tabling member printed	Alex Chalk
uin	47053
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2016 answer text <p>The £55 million additional funding for maintained nursery schools for at least two years will provide them with stability while they explore how to become more sustainable in the longer term. We plan to consult the sector on the future of nursery schools in further detail, including what happens after this two year period, in due course.</p><p> </p><p>Children’s centres are funded through the Business Rates Retention Scheme and local authorities have the freedom to decide what services are appropriate to meet local needs. Our early years funding proposals, on which we recently consulted, are designed to maximise the funding that goes to the front-line, including children’s centres where they provide early education. We will issue our response later in the autumn.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 17/10/2016 16:22:30 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4481 label Biography information for Alex Chalk

595563

registered interest
date	07/10/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Department for Education: Migrant Workers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, (a) how many and (b) what proportion of staff employed by her Department are non-UK nationals.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	47395
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2016 answer text <p>All Government Departments are bound by legal requirements concerning the right to work in the UK and, in addition, the Civil Service Nationality Rules.</p><p> </p><p>Evidence of nationality is checked at the point of recruitment into the Civil Service as part of wider pre-employment checks, but there is no requirement on departments to retain this information beyond the point at which it has served its purpose.</p><p> </p><p>More broadly, the Government will be consulting in due course on how we work with business to ensure that workers in this country have the skills that they need to get a job. However, there are no proposals to publish lists of the number or proportion of foreign workers.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 47412 47559 47581 question first answered 17/10/2016 16:32:54 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe