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registered interest
date	10/02/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Home Education
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 introduce a compulsory register of home educated children.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	122757
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/02/2022 answer text <p>The government is committed to a form of local authority register for children not in school, which would require parents to register with local authorities should they want to home educate. Further details on this are in the Children Not In School consultation response, which was published on 3 February 2022. This can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/children-not-in-school" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/children-not-in-school</a>.</p><p>The department hopes to legislate on this measure at the next suitable opportunity.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 24/02/2022 16:28:55 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

1402673

registered interest
date	13/01/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Adoption: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how the £7 million made available in the 2021 Spending Review to improve adoption support will be spent; and what proportion will be allocated to improving the letterbox contact system.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	103626
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/01/2022 answer text <p>Local authorities have a legal duty to provide a comprehensive adoption service.</p><p>This specifically includes assistance, including mediation services, in relation to arrangements for contact between an adoptive child and a natural parent, natural sibling, former guardian or a related person of the adoptive child.</p><p>As set out in our recently published ‘Adoption Strategy: achieving excellence everywhere’ we will be working with local authorities and regional adoption agencies to improve support around contact with birth relatives, including letterbox contact. This will include working closely with birth parents and those with lived experiences. More details on how funding from the Spending Review will be used will be confirmed in due course.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince grouped question UIN 103627 103628 question first answered 21/01/2022 11:23:41 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

1402674

registered interest
date	13/01/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Adoption
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans he has to involve people with lived experience in the Adoption Strategy review of contact arrangements between adopted children and birth parents.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	103627
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/01/2022 answer text <p>Local authorities have a legal duty to provide a comprehensive adoption service.</p><p>This specifically includes assistance, including mediation services, in relation to arrangements for contact between an adoptive child and a natural parent, natural sibling, former guardian or a related person of the adoptive child.</p><p>As set out in our recently published ‘Adoption Strategy: achieving excellence everywhere’ we will be working with local authorities and regional adoption agencies to improve support around contact with birth relatives, including letterbox contact. This will include working closely with birth parents and those with lived experiences. More details on how funding from the Spending Review will be used will be confirmed in due course.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince grouped question UIN 103626 103628 question first answered 21/01/2022 11:23:41 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

1402675

registered interest
date	13/01/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Adoption
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the support available to adoptive families and birth parents engaging in letterbox contact.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	103628
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/01/2022 answer text <p>Local authorities have a legal duty to provide a comprehensive adoption service.</p><p>This specifically includes assistance, including mediation services, in relation to arrangements for contact between an adoptive child and a natural parent, natural sibling, former guardian or a related person of the adoptive child.</p><p>As set out in our recently published ‘Adoption Strategy: achieving excellence everywhere’ we will be working with local authorities and regional adoption agencies to improve support around contact with birth relatives, including letterbox contact. This will include working closely with birth parents and those with lived experiences. More details on how funding from the Spending Review will be used will be confirmed in due course.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince grouped question UIN 103626 103627 question first answered 21/01/2022 11:23:41 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

1383435

registered interest
date	30/11/2021
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Nurses: Training
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the accessibility of the Government’s free childcare offer to student nurses who are required to work a weekly minimum of 16 hours in the NHS but do not receive a job-related income.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	84429
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2021 answer text <p>All three and four-year-olds are eligible for 15 hours free early education per week, which includes children of parents undertaking full or part time study. This entitlement provides young children with high quality early education and helps to prepare them for school.</p><p>Students on a low income, or whose children have special educational needs, may also be eligible for the government’s 15 hours free childcare per week entitlement for disadvantaged two-year-olds. The full criteria for this entitlement can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/help-with-childcare-costs/free-childcare-2-year-olds" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/help-with-childcare-costs/free-childcare-2-year-olds</a>.</p><p>30 hours free childcare is an entitlement for working parents of three and four-year-olds, with the aim of helping working parents with childcare costs so that they can take up paid work or can work additional hours if they want to.</p><p>The Childcare Bill policy statement, published in December 2015, sets out that students are not eligible for the government’s 30 hours free childcare entitlement, unless they are in work. Students who undertake paid work in addition to their studies and meet the income requirements will be eligible. To qualify, students do not have to physically work 16 hours a week, but they do need to earn the equivalent of a weekly minimum of 16 hours at national minimum wage or national living wage (currently just over £7,400 a year for parents aged over 23).</p><p>With regards to student nurses, the government keeps the funding arrangements for all NHS health professionals’ education under close review, to ensure that students are appropriately supported.</p><p>The government has already introduced new maintenance funding for many healthcare courses. In September 2020, the Department of Health and Social Care introduced the new, non-repayable, training grant of at least £5,000 per academic year, for all eligible new and continuing pre-registration nursing, midwifery and most allied health profession students studying at English universities.</p><p>There is a further £2,000 available for parental support, available for eligible students attending a full-time pre-registration healthcare course. More information can be found here: <a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nhsbsa.nhs.uk%2Fnhs-learning-support-fund%2Fparental-support-formerly-child-dependants-allowance&amp;data=04%7C01%7Cali.enayati%40dhsc.gov.uk%7Cadceefa889fc443c83b808d9b4b1dd5e%7C61278c3091a84c318c1fef4de8973a1c%7C1%7C0%7C637739498285660680%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&amp;sdata=FdM4PqvbXtoRyFtkBk%2BmdySdb9eB7pNEj0i5DBpLPRY%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/nhs-learning-support-fund/parental-support-formerly-child-dependants-allowance</a>. This grant is in addition to funding provided by the Students Loans Company.</p><p>This generous support package enables healthcare students to focus on their studies and placements and contributes to alleviating any financial pressures students might be facing.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 08/12/2021 11:55:23 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

1383450

registered interest
date	30/11/2021
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children's Centres and Family Hubs: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate he has made of the number of early years practitioners working in (a) children's centres and (b) family hubs.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	84431
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/12/2021 answer text <p>Children’s Centres are required to provide access to early education and childcare (either by providing services on site or by providing advice and assistance on gaining access to services elsewhere). The majority of children’s centres do not provide early education and childcare on site.</p><p>In January 2021, there were 2,341 staff working in Sure Start Children’s Centres that provided funded early education, as set out in the ‘Education provision: children under 5 years of age, January 2021’ release, which can be found at: <a href="https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink/36b29c63-0881-4bfe-a0e9-ade8580ca511" target="_blank">https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink/36b29c63-0881-4bfe-a0e9-ade8580ca511</a>.</p><p>The department does not hold data on the total number of early years practitioners working in children’s centres and family hubs.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 03/12/2021 14:44:52 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

1378434

registered interest
date	15/11/2021
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Childminding and 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 (a) childminders and (b) group-based early years settings (i) in total, (ii) rated good and (iii) rated outstanding by Ofsted have left the Early Years Register in each month of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	75061
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/11/2021 answer text <p>This is a matter for Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector, Amanda Spielman. I have asked her to write to the hon. Member for Hampstead and Kilburn and a copy of her reply will be placed in the Libraries of both Houses.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 22/11/2021 10:38:33 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

1378439

registered interest
date	15/11/2021
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Family Hubs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to his oral contribution of 1 November 2021, Official Report column 615, if he will publish the data source which lists the 3,000 family centres referred to in his reply; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	75066
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/11/2021 answer text <p>My right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Education, was referring to the 3,000 children’s centre sites. The data source for this is the department’s Get Information about Schools database <a href="https://get-information-schools.service.gov.uk/" target="_blank">https://get-information-schools.service.gov.uk/</a>.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 22/11/2021 15:07:11 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

1378440

registered interest
date	15/11/2021
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children in Care
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 18 August 2021 to Question 41094 on Children in Care, if he will publish the data on how many looked after children from England are placed outside of England, by the country where they are placed.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	75067
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2021 answer text <p>For looked after children placed outside England, figures held centrally can only be broken down as being placed in Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland or outside the UK.</p><p>I refer the hon. Member for Hampstead and Kilburn to the answer given on 7 September 2021 to Question <a href="https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2021-08-18/41093" target="_blank">41093</a>. These are the latest available figures.</p><p>Statistics on children looked after in 2020/21 are available here: <a href="https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/children-looked-after-in-england-including-adoptions/2021" target="_blank">https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/children-looked-after-in-england-including-adoptions/2021</a>.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 23/11/2021 15:30:28 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

1378441

registered interest
date	15/11/2021
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children in Care
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will set out the process by which data covering the outcomes of placements of looked after children from England in (a) other nations of the UK and (b) overseas is collated and evaluated.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	75068
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/11/2021 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member for Hampstead and Kilburn to the answer given on 6 September 2021 to Question <a href="https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2021-08-18/41094" target="_blank">41094</a>.</p><p>Local authorities are responsible for collating and evaluating data on the outcomes of placements of the looked after children for whom they are responsible. Whilst local authorities do submit an annual return covering all looked after children for whom they are responsible, including information on placement types and some information on the locality of placements, there is no central monitoring of placements outside of England.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 22/11/2021 10:50:52 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq