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1722534

registered interest
date	22/07/2024
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Holiday Activities and Food Programme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make it her policy to extend the Holiday Activities Fund.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	972
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/07/2024 answer text <p>The government is committed to breaking down barriers to opportunity and giving every child the best start in life.</p><p>The department will be providing over 3 million holiday clubs places this summer and these places will support children from disadvantaged backgrounds to access free healthy meals and enriching activities.</p><p>The department will also be providing over 500,000 holiday places over Christmas to ensure children get access to food through the school holidays and to the activities benefiting their heath, wellbeing and learning that we know make such a difference.</p><p>Funding beyond the end of March 2025 is subject to the forthcoming Spending Review.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth South answering member printed Stephen Morgan question first answered 25/07/2024 10:28:11 answering member 4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1722109

registered interest
date	18/07/2024
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Breakfast Clubs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to introduce breakfast clubs in every school; and what her planned timescale is for the introduction of breakfast clubs in every school.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	626
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/07/2024 answer text <p>The government is committed to making quick progress to deliver on its commitment to offer breakfast clubs in every primary school. Breakfast clubs will remove barriers to opportunity by ensuring every child, no matter their circumstances, is well prepared for school and set-up to achieve by providing a supportive start to the day.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The government has already taken decisive action by announcing in the King’s Speech that, under the Children’s Wellbeing Bill, every primary school will offer a free breakfast club. Legislating for breakfast club provision will give schools the certainty they need to plan for the future. Before the legislation comes into force, the department will work with schools to make sure the right support, including funding, is in place.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth South answering member printed Stephen Morgan question first answered 25/07/2024 11:13:45 answering member 4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1721297

registered interest
date	17/07/2024
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Carers: Social Security Benefits
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of providing a financial allowance to kinship carers equal to that received by foster carers.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	48
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2024 answer text <p>The department is committed to working in partnership with local government to support children in care, whether they are being looked after by their community of wider kinship care, foster carers and adoptive parents, or being cared for in children’s homes, if this is the best place for them to be. The department recognises many challenges kinship cares experience, including the financial challenges that many kinship carers face. The government is considering how to most effectively transform the children’s social care system so that it can deliver better support and outcomes for children and families. This will include considering how best to support kinship carers and children in kinship care.</p> answering member constituency Lewisham East answering member printed Janet Daby grouped question UIN 49 question first answered 22/07/2024 16:21:37 answering member 4698 label Biography information for Janet Daby
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

1721298

registered interest
date	17/07/2024
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Carers: Social Security Benefits
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what her Department's policy is on the potential merits of trialling a kinship care allowance.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	49
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2024 answer text <p>The department is committed to working in partnership with local government to support children in care, whether they are being looked after by their community of wider kinship care, foster carers and adoptive parents, or being cared for in children’s homes, if this is the best place for them to be. The department recognises many challenges kinship cares experience, including the financial challenges that many kinship carers face. The government is considering how to most effectively transform the children’s social care system so that it can deliver better support and outcomes for children and families. This will include considering how best to support kinship carers and children in kinship care.</p> answering member constituency Lewisham East answering member printed Janet Daby grouped question UIN 48 question first answered 22/07/2024 16:21:37 answering member 4698 label Biography information for Janet Daby
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

1721305

registered interest
date	17/07/2024
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pupils
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an estimate of the (a) (i) capacity of and (ii) number of pupils up to the end of Key Stage 4 enrolled in state-funded schools and (b) number of pupils up to the end of Key Stage 4 enrolled in independent schools, broken down by (A) local authority and (B) Key Stage in the latest period for which data is available.
tabling member constituency	East Hampshire
tabling member printed	Damian Hinds
uin	45
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/07/2024 answer text <p>The capacity of state-funded schools as at May 2023 is published in the annual school capacity official statistics publication and is available here: <a href="https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-capacity" target="_blank">https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-capacity</a>. The data is available at local authority level and by phase (primary and secondary).</p><p> </p><p>Pupil numbers up to age 16 are published in the ‘Schools, pupils and their characteristics’ official statistics publication and are available here: <a href="https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-pupils-and-their-characteristics" target="_blank">https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-pupils-and-their-characteristics</a>. The data is available by local authority, age and school type. Please note that statistics from the school census are on the base of age, rather than key stage.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Newcastle upon Tyne North answering member printed Catherine McKinnell question first answered 25/07/2024 11:06:56 answering member 4125 label Biography information for Catherine McKinnell
tabling member	3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds

1721329

registered interest
date	17/07/2024
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Parkfield School Christchurch
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make it her policy to reject the application by Reach South Academy Trust to close Parkfield School.
tabling member constituency	Christchurch
tabling member printed	Sir Christopher Chope
uin	10
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2024 answer text <p>My right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Education, will not make it her policy to reject the application by Reach South Academy Trust to close Parkfield School.</p><p> </p><p>Upon reviewing officials’ advice around this school closing, the department agrees that closing the school is in the best interests of children and young people and their education in this case.</p><p> </p><p>Parkfield School will be closing by mutual agreement with the Academy trust.</p> answering member constituency Newcastle upon Tyne North answering member printed Catherine McKinnell question first answered 22/07/2024 16:05:05 answering member 4125 label Biography information for Catherine McKinnell
tabling member	242 label Biography information for Sir Christopher Chope

1721368

registered interest
date	17/07/2024
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Multi-academy Trusts: Regulation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will review the (a) governance and (b) accountability structures of multi academy trusts.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	93
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2024 answer text <p>This government has committed to remove barriers to opportunity and raise school standards to ensure the school system is enabling every child to thrive, no matter their background.</p><p> </p><p>The government is clear strong accountability is non-negotiable. That is why the government has committed to bring Multi-Academy Trusts into the inspection system, to make the system fairer and more transparent, and enable intervention when schools and trusts are not performing to the required standards.</p> answering member constituency Newcastle upon Tyne North answering member printed Catherine McKinnell question first answered 22/07/2024 11:10:12 answering member 4125 label Biography information for Catherine McKinnell
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1721369

registered interest
date	17/07/2024
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Education: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will take steps to establish a fair funding formula for (a) SEND and (b) education.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	94
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2024 answer text <p>The department will take time to consider the various funding formulae that the department and local authorities use to allocate funding for children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities. It is important that there is a fair education funding system, that directs funding to where it is needed.</p><p> </p><p>Budgets for the 2025/26 financial year have not yet been set which means that decisions on the high needs and schools national funding formulae as well as the publication of allocations for that year will not be to the usual timescales.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Newcastle upon Tyne North answering member printed Catherine McKinnell question first answered 22/07/2024 15:22:58 answering member 4125 label Biography information for Catherine McKinnell
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1721504

registered interest
date	17/07/2024
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Non-teaching Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of trends in (a) recruitment and (b) retention of school support staff in (i) Birmingham and (ii) England in the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham Northfield
tabling member printed	Laurence Turner
uin	219
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2024 answer text <p>The full-time equivalent (FTE) of support staff has increased each year since the 2019/20 academic year, to 510,400 in 2023/24, and has now passed the previous peak of 2015/16. This is an increase of 4,800 (0.9%) since last year. This increase is mainly due to the addition of 2,400 in other support staff.</p><p>Support staff are categorised into posts of teaching assistants, administrative staff, auxiliary staff, technicians and other supporting staff, plus two new posts of school business professional and leadership non-teacher reported for the first time in 2023/24.</p><p>School business professionals include roles such as bursar, business manager, finance officer, office manager, premises manager or ICT network manager.</p><p>Data relating to the FTE of all support staff can be found here: <a href="https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink/7b0a17e8-b3ff-403e-687f-08dca70c1109" target="_blank">https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink/7b0a17e8-b3ff-403e-687f-08dca70c1109</a>.</p><p>Equivalent data relating to Birmingham’s parliamentary constituencies can be found here: <a href="https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink/0fb9acee-35f2-4607-fac3-08dca70cb6e4" target="_blank">https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink/0fb9acee-35f2-4607-fac3-08dca70cb6e4</a>.</p><p>School support staff play a vital role in children’s education and development. The department values and recognises the professionalism of the entire school workforce and will address recruitment and retention challenges by reinstating the School Support Staff Negotiating Body.</p><p>This body will be tasked with establishing a national terms and conditions handbook, training and progression routes, ensuring that schools can recruit and retain the staff needed to deliver high quality, inclusive education.</p> answering member constituency Newcastle upon Tyne North answering member printed Catherine McKinnell question first answered 22/07/2024 15:58:11 answering member 4125 label Biography information for Catherine McKinnell
tabling member	5234

1721543

registered interest
date	17/07/2024
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Special Educational Needs: North Cornwall
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to reduce the time taken for children in North Cornwall constituency to receive an Education, Health and Care needs assessment.
tabling member constituency	North Cornwall
tabling member printed	Ben Maguire
uin	258
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/07/2024 answer text <p>The department is aware that the SEN2 Data for the 2023 calendar year, which was published on 13 June 2024 and includes data on the rate that education, health and care plans are issued within the statutory 20 week period, showed that Cornwall had issued 1.6% of plans on time, which is well below the national average of 50.3%.</p><p> </p><p>The department is focussed on ensuring the local area partnership works at pace to improve the timeliness of plans for children and young people in Cornwall. This support includes departmental officials carrying out monthly monitoring, a department appointed special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) advisor and department funded training workshops delivered by the Research and Improvement for SEND Excellence (RISE) consortium.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Newcastle upon Tyne North answering member printed Catherine McKinnell question first answered 25/07/2024 10:46:52 answering member 4125 label Biography information for Catherine McKinnell
tabling member	5350