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227251

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date	13/03/2015
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 recent steps she has taken to help parents in work with the costs of childcare.
tabling member constituency	Windsor
tabling member printed	Adam Afriyie
uin	227506
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2015 answer text <p>The Department for Education understands that the cost of childcare can be a concern for many parents. In order to help support parents, the Department has increased funding in the early years from £2 billion to £3 billion a year over the course of this Parliament.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Department has provided funding for 15 hours a week of free childcare for all three- and four-year-olds, and for disadvantaged two-year-olds. The funding for all three- and four-year-olds is worth £2,500 per child, per year to parents. This gives an additional £425 per child, per year, when compared to funding prior to the last election. The funding for approximately 40% of two-year-olds is also worth £2,500 per child, per year.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In addition, the Department is introducing Tax-Free Childcare, under which up to 1.8 million working families could benefit from up to £2,000 per child, per year.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>For working parents on lower incomes, working tax credit pays up to 70% of their childcare costs. This could be worth up to £6,370 for their first child. Under Universal Credit, the subsidy rate will increase to 85% of childcare costs and support will be available, for the first time, to those working fewer than 16 hours per week.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Furthermore, the Department has taken action to give more choice to parents by creating child minder agencies and supporting schools to open nurseries and offer provision from 8am to 6pm. The Department is also introducing shared parental leave.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 20/03/2015 13:39:04 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	1586 label Biography information for Adam Afriyie

227281

registered interest
date	13/03/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Department for Education: Off-payroll Working
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many staff in her Department and its executive agencies and associated bodies were engaged off-payroll in each of the last five years up to the most recent period for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Airdrie and Shotts
tabling member printed	Pamela Nash
uin	227546
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2015 answer text <p>The number of staff who were engaged off-payroll in the Department for Education (including its Executive Agencies) can be found online at <a href="http://www.data.gov.uk/" target="_blank">www.data.gov.uk</a>.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Department for Education does not collect data on the number of staff engaged off-payroll in its associated bodies.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Mr Nick Gibb question first answered 20/03/2015 14:27:48 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	3909 label Biography information for Pamela Nash

227282

registered interest
date	13/03/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	School Leaving
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 proportion of students who left school having had practical work experience in (a) the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead, (b) Berkshire and (c) the UK in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Windsor
tabling member printed	Adam Afriyie
uin	227568
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2015 answer text <p>Schools are not required to provide information about pre-16 work experience and therefore we do not hold the information requested.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 20/03/2015 13:16:04 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
tabling member	1586 label Biography information for Adam Afriyie

227285

registered interest
date	13/03/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Research
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what amount her Department and its agencies spent on research and development in each year since 2010-11; and what proportion such spending was of total departmental spending.
tabling member constituency	Streatham
tabling member printed	Mr Chuka Umunna
uin	227557
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2015 answer text <p>The total amount the Department for Education and its agencies has spent on formal research and development in each year since 2010-11; and what proportion such spending was of total Departmental spending, can be found in the table below:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Research Spend Actual (£M)</p></td><td><p>Research expenditure as a proportion of total Departmental expenditure</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>27</p></td><td><p>0.046%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>13</p></td><td><p>0.023%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>14</p></td><td><p>0.027%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>14</p></td><td><p>0.026%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The 2010-2013 data is available from the Office of National Statistics (ONS) online at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/publications/re-reference-tables.html?edition=tcm%3A77-352137" target="_blank">http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/publications/re-reference-tables.html?edition=tcm%3A77-352137</a>. The figures we have supplied for research spend for the financial year 2013/14 have already been supplied to the ONS as part of the 2014 Government Research and Development Survey. This survey has yet to be published.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Mr Nick Gibb question first answered 20/03/2015 13:46:38 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4128 label Biography information for Chuka Umunna

227287

registered interest
date	13/03/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Teachers: Standards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she has taken to enable people with local business expertise to enhance teaching in schools.
tabling member constituency	Windsor
tabling member printed	Adam Afriyie
uin	227517
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2015 answer text <p>The government wants to see more schools and employers working together to help open young people’s eyes to the world of work. We have funded a new, independent careers and enterprise company to help businesses and schools to engage with each other more easily so that young people get the inspiration and guidance they need to leave school or college ready to succeed in working life.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Business people also have an important role to play in school governance, bringing a range of transferable skills to help governing bodies carry out their demanding strategic functions. In May 2014 we launched the Inspiring Governors Alliance to bring together all organisations with a role to play in increasing both demand for and supply of high quality governors, particularly from the world of work. We have awarded £1m of funding in 2015-16 to embed a strategic partnership between SGOSS, Governors for Schools and the Education and Employers’ Taskforce at the heart of the alliance to engage employers and help schools find the high quality governors they need.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 20/03/2015 13:14:57 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
tabling member	1586 label Biography information for Adam Afriyie

227332

registered interest
date	13/03/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Social Services
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to improve funding and support for child social care.
tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
uin	HL5719
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/03/2015 answer text <p>The Department for Education recognises the need to continue to improve funding and support for children’s social care, supporting local authorities to improve the provision of their services and get better value for money. Although local authorities are responsible for the vast majority of the expenditure in children’s social services, the Department’s investment and support has been focused across four key areas: innovation; direct support to underperforming authorities; improvements to the social work force; and leadership. There are also a number of areas of specific support, such as the Department’s response to adoption, child sexual exploitation, and children in care.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Children’s Social Care Innovation Programme has allocated an additional £100 million funding for 2014-15 and 2015-16, targeted at supporting vulnerable children and those on the edge of care. The programme was launched in order to enable local authorities, charities, social enterprises and private organisations to test new methods of delivery in order to achieve higher quality and better value for money. The programme covers 50 projects and involves 72 local authorities. The Department will be working closely with all projects to support implementation and build a strong evidence base. Further information can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/childrens-services-innovation-programme" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/childrens-services-innovation-programme</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Department regularly intervenes to provide effective support to local authorities which are failing to provide safe children’s social care services. We have recently strengthened underperforming authorities by appointing six experts in children’s social care to support them.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>With regard to strengthening the social work workforce, by the end of the current Parliament, the Department will have invested more than £680 million in social work training and improvement, mostly in bursaries to social work students. We are also committed to improving the quality of social worker recruitment through the Frontline and Step Up to Social Work entry training programmes for high calibre recruits.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>With regard to leadership, the Department is committed to strengthening the quality of those in positions of leadership. The Department has funded the Virtual Staff College with over £8.4 million since 2012-13 in order to provide leadership development for Directors of Children’s Services and Assistant Directors.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We are taking action to build capacity and expertise in local areas in order to respond to recent reports exposing the level of child sexual abuse and exploitation. The Government responded to the Rotherham reports by announcing a range of action to improve accountability and target prevention. Further information can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/tackling-child-sexual-exploitation--2" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/tackling-child-sexual-exploitation--2</a></p> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 25/03/2015 16:45:21 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick