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659513

registered interest
date	15/12/2016
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 the timetable is for her Department's response to its consultation on Government changes to disqualification arrangements for childcare workers.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	57819
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2016 answer text <p>Ministers are still considering responses to the options set out in the consultation on Government changes to disqualification arrangements for childcare workers. They will announce their decision regarding any changes they intend to make in the near future.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 20/12/2016 17:14:49 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

659514

registered interest
date	15/12/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pre-school Education: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the timetable is for her Department's response to its consultation on the numeracy and literacy requirements of Level 3 early years workers.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	57820
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2016 answer text <p>A well-qualified workforce in the early years is absolutely crucial and that is why the Government has committed to developing a workforce strategy which will help employers attract, retain and develop staff to deliver high quality provision.</p><p>This will include a response to a recent consultation the Department published on the literacy &amp; numeracy qualification requirements for level 3 Early Years Educator staff. This consultation closed on 28 November 2016 and received over 4,000 responses.</p><p>The Department is currently analysing the responses and a government response will be published in the new year.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 20/12/2016 17:15:34 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

659515

registered interest
date	15/12/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pupil Premium
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will ensure that the findings of Ofsted inspections on whether providers spend funds allocated for their Early Years Pupil Premium effectively are made publicly available.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	57828
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2016 answer text <p>Where at least one child in an early years setting is eligible for additional funding, such as the Early Years Pupil Premium (EYPP), Ofsted will track and assess how effectively that funding has been spent when gathering all of the inspection evidence necessary to judge the overall effectiveness of the provider. All Ofsted reports are published and made available on their website. The specific findings on how the EYPP is spent, may be part of the published report but Ofsted has the discretion not to publish such findings in the public inspection report in every case, for example to preserve confidentiality where only small numbers of children attract the funding.</p><p> </p><p>We are currently conducting a Study of Early Education and Development (SEED) into the effectiveness of the EYPP and also a survey to explore how providers use their early entitlement funding, including the EYPP, to address disadvantage and deprivation within their settings. Both reports are due for completion in the new year.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 20/12/2016 17:17:12 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

659516

registered interest
date	15/12/2016
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, with reference to the annual report of Ofcom for 2015-6, how many of the 2,000 providers who received a welfare requirements notice between 2014 and 2016 have received a subsequent inspection; and what the ratings were for those providers.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	57851
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2016 answer text <p>Ofsted is the non-Ministerial Government Department responsible for the regulation of childcare providers in England. Ofsted is responsible for notifying providers of action needed to address failings identified in inspections and for taking the necessary follow-up action with those providers to ensure compliance with its notices. This is a matter for Her Majesty's Chief Inspector, Sir Michael Wilshaw. I have asked him to write to the Hon. Member and a copy of his reply will be placed in the libraries of the House.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 57850 question first answered 20/12/2016 17:17:38 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

659517

registered interest
date	15/12/2016
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, what mechanism her Department has in place to ascertain whether a childcare or early years provider has taken the actions outlined for it in a welfare requirements notice.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	57852
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2016 answer text <p>Ofsted is the non-Ministerial Government Department responsible for the regulation of childcare providers in England and reports to Parliament on its performance. Ofsted is responsible for taking any necessary follow-up action when it has served a welfare notice to an early years provider following an inspection.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 20/12/2016 17:18:26 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

659518

registered interest
date	15/12/2016
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, with reference to the annual report of Ofcom for 2015-6, how many of the 2,000 providers who received a welfare requirements notice between 2014 and 2016 (a) did and (b) did not take the actions outlined in their welfare requirement notice.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	57850
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2016 answer text <p>Ofsted is the non-Ministerial Government Department responsible for the regulation of childcare providers in England. Ofsted is responsible for notifying providers of action needed to address failings identified in inspections and for taking the necessary follow-up action with those providers to ensure compliance with its notices. This is a matter for Her Majesty's Chief Inspector, Sir Michael Wilshaw. I have asked him to write to the Hon. Member and a copy of his reply will be placed in the libraries of the House.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 57851 question first answered 20/12/2016 17:17:38 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

659663

registered interest
date	15/12/2016
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	Equal Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, with reference to the draft Equality Act 2010 (Gender Pay Gap Information) Regulations 2017, what sanctions will be applied to employers for non-compliance with the new reporting requirements.
tabling member constituency	Brent Central
tabling member printed	Dawn Butler
uin	57803
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2016 answer text <p>Non-compliance with the regulations will constitute an ‘unlawful act’ and fall within the existing enforcement powers of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) under the Equality Act 2006.</p><p> </p><p>The regulations require that, in addition to publishing the information on their own website, employers must also publish the information on a government website. This will allow us to closely monitor levels of compliance and keep this position under review by establishing a database of compliant employers.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 20/12/2016 17:35:24 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	1489 label Biography information for Dawn Butler

658460

registered interest
date	14/12/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Department for Education: Information Officers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much her Department spent on communications and media staff in (a) 2015 and (b) 2016; and how much her Department expects to have spent on such staff in 2016-17.
tabling member constituency	Ashton-under-Lyne
tabling member printed	Angela Rayner
uin	57748
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2016 answer text <p>The Department for Education communications group spent £2,395,172 in the financial year 2014-15, £2,175, 580 in 2015-16 and will spend £2,662,236 in 2016-17 on staff. The last figure has increased due to the department taking on HE and FE work.</p><p> </p><p>This is substantially lower than communications staff costs in 2010-11 which were £4,360,283.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 19/12/2016 16:52:47 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4356 label Biography information for Angela Rayner

658465

registered interest
date	14/12/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pre-school Education: Standards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children are in the lowest-attaining (a) 18.6 and (b) 21.5 per cent within the early years foundation stage profile; and how many such children are in each (i) region and (ii) local authority area.
tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
uin	57741
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2016 answer text <p>On 20 October, the Department published the early years foundation stage profile (EYFSP) results for the 2015 to 2016 academic year, at national and local authority level. At a national level, 69.3% of children achieved a good level of development (GLD), which is an increase of 3 percentage points on 2015. The same trend was seen in the percentage achieving at least the expected level across all early learning goals, which has increased by 3.2 percentage points from 2015. The EYFSP results are available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/early-years-foundation-stage-profile-results-2015-to-2016" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/statistics/early-years-foundation-stage-profile-results-2015-to-2016</a>.</p><p> </p><p>Information about the number of children in (a) the lowest attaining 18.6 per cent and (b) the lowest attaining 21.5 per cent of children within the early years foundation stage profile broken down by region and local authority is provided in an attachment to this response.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 19/12/2016 17:55:40 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage attachment 1 file name 57741 Attachment.xlsx title Attachment
tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell

658480

registered interest
date	14/12/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Department for Education: Apprentices
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many civil service apprentices her Department has appointed since the civil service apprenticeship scheme was created.
tabling member constituency	Ashton-under-Lyne
tabling member printed	Angela Rayner
uin	57633
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2016 answer text <p>The civil service fast-track apprenticeship scheme was launched in September 2013.</p><p>The Department for Education has appointed apprentices from the scheme every year.</p><p>It has also recruited other apprentices outside of the central scheme. The number of</p><p>apprentices recruited each year is in the following table:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Central Scheme (Level 4)</p></td><td><p>Other apprentices (Level 2 and 3)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>15</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>20</p></td><td><p>14</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>48</p></td><td><p>16</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>16</p></td><td><p>25</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p>A further 35 apprentices from the central scheme and 13 other apprentices have been offered apprenticeships at the Department and are expected to start in early 2017.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong><br> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 19/12/2016 12:38:08 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4356 label Biography information for Angela Rayner