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652300

registered interest
date	05/12/2016
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, with reference to Ofqual's Vocational Qualifications Dataset published in October 2016, how many level 3 childcare certificates were awarded in each year from 2012 to 2016 by region and constituent part of the UK.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
uin	56163
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/12/2016 answer text <p>This is a matter for Ofqual, the Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation. I have therefore asked its Chief Regulator, Sally Collier, to write directly to the Honourable Member. A copy of her reply will be placed in the House of Commons Library.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 13/12/2016 16:21:55 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

652397

registered interest
date	05/12/2016
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Children: Day Care
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, on how many occasions his Department has made a determination to reduce the costs of childcare taken into account for the purposes of universal credit; and what the aggregate value of those reductions is.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	56072
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2016 answer text <p>The information requested is not collated centrally and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>The Department updated its strategy for releasing official statistics on Universal Credit (UC) in December 2016. As outlined in the strategy, officials are currently assessing the data for UC and will only release information once the necessary quality assurance work has taken place. These statistics will be published in accordance with the relevant protocols in the Code of Practice for official statistics.</p><p> </p><p>Universal Credit official statistics and the Departments release strategy can be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/universal-credit-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/universal-credit-statistics</a></p><p> </p><p>The Government recognises that the high costs of childcare can affect many parents’ decisions on returning to and taking up paid work. That is why we increased the level of support for childcare costs within Universal Credit from 70% to 85%. This means that hard working families on Universal Credit can now claim up to 85% of their eligible childcare costs which equates to a maximum support of £646.35 per month for one child and £1108.04 per month for two or more children. This change will benefit up to 500,000 working families once Universal Credit has fully rolled out.</p><p> </p><p>The intention is that more and more families will get more out of the money they earn, and find that it pays to get a job, from taking the first few shifts back at work, right up to working full-time.<strong><br> </strong></p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds grouped question UIN 56087 56088 56189 56192 56292 question first answered 08/12/2016 17:19:02 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

652398

registered interest
date	05/12/2016
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Children: Day Care
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate his Department has made of the effect on the public purse of childcare costs being excluded from household income for the purposes of calculating entitlement to housing benefit and council tax benefit in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	56095
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/12/2016 answer text <p>The information is not available regarding housing benefit. Regarding council tax benefit, since April 2013 responsibility for council tax support has been devolved to local authorities.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 12/12/2016 14:17:10 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

642405

registered interest
date	22/11/2016
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 proportion of people claiming free childcare for two-year olds are working.
tabling member constituency	Wirral South
tabling member printed	Alison McGovern
uin	54270
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/11/2016 answer text <p>The Parliamentary question has been transferred to the Department for Education as it relates to the entitlement to early learning for two year olds, for which this Department has responsibility.</p><p>The Department for Education collects data on the number of two years olds taking up their entitlement to a funded learning place. However, the data requested is not available because the Department does not collect data on the employment status of parents who claim their entitlement to a funded early learning place.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 28/11/2016 13:25:56 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4083 label Biography information for Alison McGovern

638654

registered interest
date	18/11/2016
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, how much funding was provided from the public purse for early years (a) childcare, (b) children's centres, (c) nurseries and (d) other provisions in Bristol West constituency in 2015-16; how much such funding is allocated for (i) 2016-17 and (ii) 2017-18; and what estimate her Department has made of how many full-time equivalent places such funding supports.
tabling member constituency	Bristol West
tabling member printed	Thangam Debbonaire
uin	53754
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2016 answer text <p>Funding for the free early years entitlements is allocated on a local authority basis through the Dedicated Schools Grant. This funding covers childcare, nurseries and other early years provisions, including childcare via children’s centres. Local authorities have the freedom to determine how to fund other services delivered via their networks of children’s centres, including via the Business Rate Retention Scheme. Local authorities have the freedom to decide what children’s centre services are appropriate to meet local needs and statutory duties.</p><p>In 2015-16, the City of Bristol received £29.16m from central government for the early years entitlements (three- and four-year olds and two-year olds but not including the Early Years Pupil Premium). This funding supported 5,161 full-time equivalent places.</p><p>In 2016-17, the City of Bristol received a provisional £28.71m from central government for the early years entitlements (three- and four-year olds and two-year olds but not including the EYPP). This funding supported a provisional 5,082 full-time equivalent places.</p><p>The Government consulted earlier this year on proposals to ensure that early years funding is allocated efficiently and fairly across the country from 2017-18. Under such proposals the City of Bristol would have been allocated a provisional £32.56m from central government for the early years entitlements (three- and four-year olds including 30 hours childcare for working parents; two-year olds; and supplementary funding for maintained nursery schools). This funding would have supported a provisional 5,666 full-time equivalent places.</p><p>Government will announce a response to the consultation shortly, including 2017-18 funding for the City of Bristol.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 23/11/2016 16:58:41 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4433 label Biography information for Thangam Debbonaire

638655

registered interest
date	18/11/2016
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 assessment her Department has made of the relationship between employees' working hours and the cost associated with childcare.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	53745
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/11/2016 answer text <p>The Government wants to help more parents into work and support hard-working parents with the cost of childcare.</p><p>We have introduced Universal Credit, the Government’s flagship welfare reform, which meets up to 85 per cent of childcare costs for those in work.</p><p>We are extending the childcare entitlement to 30 hours per week for three- and four- year olds from working families from September 2017. Providers can offer all of the entitlements between 6am and 8pm, supporting parents who work non-standard hours.</p><p>We are implementing Tax-free Childcare from 2017, which will help with the cost of childcare – it is worth up to £2,000 per child per year, and up to £4,000 for disabled children.</p><p>Total Government spending – including the early years entitlements, Tax-Free Childcare and Universal Credit – will increase from £5bn in 2015-16 to over £6bn by 2019-20.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 28/11/2016 16:59:14 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

638348

registered interest
date	17/11/2016
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, how many providers are involved in the trial of 30 hours of free childcare.
tabling member constituency	North Swindon
tabling member printed	Justin Tomlinson
uin	53613
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/11/2016 answer text <p>York is delivering to all eligible children as part of Early Implementation of the 30 Hours Free Childcare entitlement. Currently, 197 out of 229 (86%) of York’s providers are signed up to deliver the extended entitlement, and this figure continues to increase.</p><p> </p><p>The remaining Early Implementer local authorities were allocated a limited number of places (around 415 each) and those areas report that providers are engaging positively with the programme.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 22/11/2016 14:11:55 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson

637041

registered interest
date	15/11/2016
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 mechanism her Department uses to monitor the number of reportable incidents recorded in (a) nurseries and (b) other non-domestic childcare settings across local authorities in England.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	53115
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/11/2016 answer text <p>The Department for Education does not monitor the number of nursery workers referred to local authorities or the number of incidents. Ofsted considers notifications of serious incidents to determine whether or not the provider remains suitable for registration but it does not aggregate the total number of incidents.</p><p> </p><p>All nurseries and pre-schools have a responsibility to keep children safe. Ofsted is responsible for ensuring that the safeguarding requirements set out in the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) statutory framework are adhered to by early years providers across England. If providers have concerns about children’s safety or welfare they must notify agencies with statutory responsibility without delay. It is a requirement for an employee in each setting to be trained in paediatric first aid. We are due to publish a revised EYFS in 2017, which will strengthen existing paediatric first aid requirements. Anyone who has any concerns should report them immediately to Ofsted. The EYFS is available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/early-years-foundation-stage-framework--2" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/early-years-foundation-stage-framework--2</a></p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 53139 question first answered 22/11/2016 16:26:33 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

637055

registered interest
date	15/11/2016
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, how many Ofsted-registered childcare providers have been inspected by Ofsted in the last (a) one, (b) two, (c) three and (d) four years.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	53024
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/11/2016 answer text <p>The quality ratings for childcare providers continue to rise and the latest figures show that 91% of providers on the Early Years Register achieved a “good” or “outstanding” rating as at 31 August 2016 – the highest proportion ever.</p><p>Ofsted is the non-ministerial government department responsible for the regulation of childcare providers and publishes a regular series of statistics on provider numbers and inspection outcomes on their website, including those specifically requested in this question. These can be viewed from the following link: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/early-years-and-childcare-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/early-years-and-childcare-statistics</a>.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 53025 53028 question first answered 18/11/2016 11:28:30 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

637056

registered interest
date	15/11/2016
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, how many Ofsted-registered childcare providers there were in each year since 2010-11.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	53025
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/11/2016 answer text <p>The quality ratings for childcare providers continue to rise and the latest figures show that 91% of providers on the Early Years Register achieved a “good” or “outstanding” rating as at 31 August 2016 – the highest proportion ever.</p><p>Ofsted is the non-ministerial government department responsible for the regulation of childcare providers and publishes a regular series of statistics on provider numbers and inspection outcomes on their website, including those specifically requested in this question. These can be viewed from the following link: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/early-years-and-childcare-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/early-years-and-childcare-statistics</a>.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 53024 53028 question first answered 18/11/2016 11:28:30 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq