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1686471

registered interest
date	31/01/2024
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Politics: Education
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 on the impact of (a) the Our Generation Our Vote project and (b) other political literacy projects on levels of political engagement among young people.
tabling member constituency	Batley and Spen
tabling member printed	Kim Leadbeater
uin	12489
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2024 answer text <p>As part of the national curriculum for Citizenship at key stages 3 and 4, pupils will learn about Parliament, the importance of voting and elections, and the actions citizens can take in democratic and electoral processes to influence decisions locally, nationally and beyond. The national curriculum programmes of study for Citizenship are available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-curriculum-in-england-citizenship-programmes-of-study" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-curriculum-in-england-citizenship-programmes-of-study</a>.</p><p> </p><p>Schools are subject to statutory duties regarding political impartiality, which require them to present partisan political issues in a balanced and impartial way. The department has published guidance to support schools to meet their duties regarding political impartiality which is available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/political-impartiality-in-schools" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/political-impartiality-in-schools</a>.</p><p><br>The guidance is clear that schools are responsible for reviewing any external materials that they use to ensure they are factual, balanced and age appropriate. The department therefore has no plans to assess the impact of the Our Generation Our Vote project or other political literacy projects, centrally.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 08/02/2024 13:43:55 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4923 label Biography information for Kim Leadbeater

1680624

registered interest
date	08/01/2024
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Students: Debts
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will have discussions with the Student Loan Company on the cancellation of student debt when a provider's course is deemed insufficient to meet the requirements to issue a qualification.
tabling member constituency	Batley and Spen
tabling member printed	Kim Leadbeater
uin	8628
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2024 answer text <p>The department tries to ensure that all students, regardless of their background, benefit from high-quality, world-leading higher education (HE) that leads to excellent outcomes. All HE providers will also have in place procedures for handling student complaints and academic appeals. If a student exhausts the internal university procedures and is not satisfied with the final outcome, they can contact the Office of the Independent Adjudicator for Higher Education. More details can be found using the following link: <a href="https://www.oiahe.org.uk/students/how-to-complain-to-us/" target="_blank">https://www.oiahe.org.uk/students/how-to-complain-to-us/</a>.</p><p>The Student Loans Company (SLC) will cancel a student loan borrower's liability to repay a loan in limited circumstances. These include; when the loan term ends, when the borrower dies, and if the borrower receives a disability-related benefit and because of the disability is permanently unfit for work. The SLC has no power to cancel student loans in other circumstances.</p> answering member constituency Harlow answering member printed Robert Halfon question first answered 15/01/2024 16:15:42 answering member 3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon
tabling member	4923 label Biography information for Kim Leadbeater

1641230

registered interest
date	02/06/2023
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Childcare: Fees and Charges
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of extending the criteria for 30 hours free childcare to children at risk regardless of their parents' employment status.
tabling member constituency	Batley and Spen
tabling member printed	Kim Leadbeater
uin	187265
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2023 answer text <p>In the Spring Budget 2023, my right hon. Friend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, announced transformative reforms to childcare for parents, children, and the economy. By 2027/28, the government will expect to be spending in excess of £8 billion every year on free hours and early education, helping working families with their childcare costs. This represents the single biggest investment in childcare in England ever.</p><p>The government’s 30 hours free childcare entitlement is intended to encourage parents back into work, or to take on additional hours, by helping them with childcare costs. Therefore, it is available to parents who earn at least the equivalent of 16 hours per week at National Minimum or Living Wage (currently just over £167 per week, or £8,670 per year), and less than £100,000 adjusted net income per year.</p><p>In a two-parent family, both parents must meet these thresholds, unless one partner receives certain benefits, such as Incapacity Benefit, Severe Disablement Allowance, Carer’s Allowance or contribution-based Employment and Support Allowance. In a single-parent household the single parent must meet the thresholds.</p><p>Parents who are unable to meet the income thresholds for 30 hours free childcare remain eligible for the universal entitlement to 15 hours free early education. This is available for all three and four-year-olds regardless of their family circumstances, and supports children’s development, helping prepare them for school.</p><p>Working parents on low incomes and in receipt of certain benefits (earning less than £15,400 and receiving Universal Credit or earning less than £16,190 and receiving tax credits), as well as disadvantaged children, including those with education, health and care plans and looked after children, can qualify for 15 hours free early education for two-year-olds.</p><p>Outside of the early education entitlements, working parents on Universal Credit may also be eligible for help with up to 85% of their childcare costs through Universal Credit Childcare for children aged 0 to16, up to £646 for one child and £1,108 for two or more children.</p><p>The department continues to support the most disadvantaged and vulnerable children by investing in high-quality early education, family hubs and local services, and by helping parents to support their child’s early language development at home.</p><p>In future, working parents will be able to access 30 hours of free childcare a week for 38 weeks a year from the point their child is 9 months, to when their child starts school. This offer will be rolled out in phases from April 2024 to September 2025. The department is ensuring a phased implementation of the expansion to the 30 hours offer to allow the market to develop the necessary capacity, and we are working closely with the sector on the implementation of these reforms.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Claire Coutinho question first answered 12/06/2023 16:51:30 answering member 4806 label Biography information for Claire Coutinho
tabling member	4923 label Biography information for Kim Leadbeater

1626378

registered interest
date	09/05/2023
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Curriculum and Teaching Methods
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 ensure that the national curriculum includes (a) sustainable development and (b) project-based learning to encourage practical experience.
tabling member constituency	Batley and Spen
tabling member printed	Kim Leadbeater
uin	184230
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/05/2023 answer text <p>The Department reformed the National Curriculum to set world class standards across all subjects.</p><p>The National Curriculum focuses on the key knowledge that schools should teach. Within this broad statutory framework, schools have considerable flexibility to organise the content and delivery of the curriculum to meet the needs of the majority of their pupils.</p><p>In April 2022, the Department published ‘Sustainability and climate change: a strategy for the education and children’s services systems’. The strategy sets out new initiatives, including extra support, for teaching nature and climate change, the introduction of a natural history GCSE, a National Education Nature Park, Climate Action Award, and support for head teachers to take a whole school approach to climate change.</p><p>The National Education Nature Park will bring together all the land from across the education sector into a vast virtual nature park. It will enable pupils to get involved in taking practical action to improve biodiversity and see over time how the virtual park changes. The initiative will provide many educational opportunities for pupils to take part in biodiversity monitoring, mapping, and data analysis, developing excellent knowledge for the future, underpinned by a strong foundation in mathematics.</p><p>The Department is drafting subject content for the proposed natural history GCSE and aims to consult publicly on this in the coming months.</p><p>Topics related to climate change and the environment are already included within the citizenship, science, and geography National Curriculum programmes of study.</p><p>The Department has no plans to promote project based learning in schools. The Department is committed to evidence based teaching and has recently re-endowed the Education Endowment Foundation with £137 million to research and fund innovative approaches to improve teaching in schools, nurseries, and colleges. Their approaches are aimed at improving educational outcomes, especially for disadvantaged pupils. This supports teachers to make evidence led decisions and choose interventions that they know are effective and appropriate for their pupils. Schools can also refer to the Oak National Academy and the network of subject hubs for support with teaching an evidence based curriculum.</p><p>In the Schools White Paper, published in 2022, the Department committed not to make any changes to the National Curriculum for the remainder of this Parliament.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 17/05/2023 13:32:35 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4923 label Biography information for Kim Leadbeater

1625929

registered interest
date	05/05/2023
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	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department will respond to the Competition and Markets Authority report entitled Children's social care market study, published on 10 March 2022.
tabling member constituency	Batley and Spen
tabling member printed	Kim Leadbeater
uin	183992
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/05/2023 answer text <p>On 2 February 2023, the government published 'Stable Homes, Built on Love', an implementation strategy which responds to the Independent Review of Children’s Social Care, as well as the National Panel review into the tragic murders of Arthur Labinjo-Hughes and Star Hobson, and the Competition and Markets Authority Study into Children’s Social Care placements.</p><p>The ‘Stable Homes, Built on Love’ strategy can be found here: <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1147317/Children_s_social_care_stable_homes_consultation_February_2023.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1147317/Children_s_social_care_stable_homes_consultation_February_2023.pdf</a>.</p><p>The Independent Review of Children’s Social Care can be found here: <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1141532/Independent_review_of_children_s_social_care_-_Final_report.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1141532/Independent_review_of_children_s_social_care_-_Final_report.pdf</a>.</p><p>The National Panel review on child protection report can be found here: <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1078488/ALH_SH_National_Review_26-5-22.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1078488/ALH_SH_National_Review_26-5-22.pdf</a>.</p><p>The Children’s social care market study can be found here: <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1059575/Final_report.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1059575/Final_report.pdf</a>.</p><p>These reviews made a case for extensive reforms across children’s social care, and the department has carefully considered all recommendations. The government has accepted the overwhelming majority of recommendations from these three reviews and published a response to each within ‘Stable homes, Built on Love’.</p><p>An overview of the Competition and Markets Authority report recommendations and government’s response to these recommendations, can be found at Annex 5 of the strategy.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Claire Coutinho question first answered 16/05/2023 12:38:33 answering member 4806 label Biography information for Claire Coutinho
tabling member	4923 label Biography information for Kim Leadbeater

1606849

registered interest
date	23/03/2023
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Students: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department is taking steps to provide alternative student finance options to people whose faith prohibits them from using interest-based loans.
tabling member constituency	Batley and Spen
tabling member printed	Kim Leadbeater
uin	172549
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/03/2023 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member for Batley and Spen to the answer I gave on 24 March 2023 to Question <a href="https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2023-03-16/167263" target="_blank">167263</a>.</p> answering member constituency Harlow answering member printed Robert Halfon question first answered 31/03/2023 11:27:33 answering member 3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon
tabling member	4923 label Biography information for Kim Leadbeater

1601911

registered interest
date	07/03/2023
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Childcare: Finance
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 ensure childcare remains affordable despite the rising cost of living.
tabling member constituency	Batley and Spen
tabling member printed	Kim Leadbeater
uin	160461
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/03/2023 answer text <p>The department recognises that families and early years providers across the country are facing financial pressures. This is why we have spent more than £20 billion over the past five years to support families with the cost of childcare. We are currently looking into options to improve the cost, flexibility, and availability of childcare.</p><p>In July 2022, the department announced measures to increase take-up of childcare support to ensure that families can access government support on their childcare bills. This included our Childcare Choices communications campaign to ensure every parent knows about the government funded support they are eligible for. The launch of this campaign has had a positive impact, leading to an increase in referrals for Universal Credit, Tax-Free Childcare, and 30 hours entitlements.</p><p>In the 2023 Spring Budget, my right hon. Friend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer announced that the department will provide over £4.1 billion by 2027/28 to fund 30 hours of free childcare per week, over 38 weeks per year, for working parents with children aged nine months to three years in England.</p><p>From April 2024, working parents of two-year-olds can access 15 hours of free childcare per week, over 38 weeks a year. From September 2024, this will be extended to parents of nine month to three-year-olds, and from September 2025, working parents of nine month to three-year-olds will be able to access 30 free hours per week, over 38 weeks a year.</p><p>The department also announced that we will invest £204 million in 2023/24 to uplift the rates for existing entitlements, rising to £288 million in 2024/25, with further uplifts beyond this.</p><p>We are continuing to take action to maintain choice and availability for parents by attracting more people to childminding, through a start-up grant fund of up to £7.2 million over the next two years.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Claire Coutinho question first answered 28/03/2023 16:09:34 answering member 4806 label Biography information for Claire Coutinho
tabling member	4923 label Biography information for Kim Leadbeater

1586438

registered interest
date	17/02/2023
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Uniforms
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she plans to publish guidance for parents on the powers of her Department to intervene when schools do not comply with statutory guidance on school uniform costs.
tabling member constituency	Batley and Spen
tabling member printed	Kim Leadbeater
uin	147248
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2023 answer text <p>​​There are no current plans to publish guidance for parents on the powers of the Department to intervene when schools do not comply with the statutory guidance on the cost of school uniform. The GOV.UK guidance page on school uniforms explains that if someone has a complaint regarding a school’s uniform policy, they should contact the school. Schools must explain clearly on their website how they can be contacted. The guidance advises contacting the Department if someone is not satisfied with how their complaint has been handled. This guidance page is available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/school-uniform" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/school-uniform</a>.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 27/02/2023 15:16:49 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4923 label Biography information for Kim Leadbeater

1582273

registered interest
date	31/01/2023
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Sports
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 17 January 2023 to Question 119236 on Schools: Inspections, what recent estimate she has made of when Ofsted will publish its report into the quality of PE and sport within schools; and what the remit of this report will be.
tabling member constituency	Batley and Spen
tabling member printed	Kim Leadbeater
uin	136770
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2023 answer text <p>This is a matter for His Majesty’s Chief Inspector, Amanda Spielman. I have asked her to write to the hon. Member for Batley and Spen, and a copy of her reply will be placed in the Libraries of both Houses.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 08/02/2023 11:31:56 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4923 label Biography information for Kim Leadbeater

1565150

registered interest
date	09/01/2023
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Inspections
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she will make it her policy to require Ofsted to inspect and monitor the quality of physical education, sport and wellbeing as part of school inspections.
tabling member constituency	Batley and Spen
tabling member printed	Kim Leadbeater
uin	119236
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2023 answer text <p>Ofsted’s education inspection framework, which took effect in September 2019, expects schools to provide a broad and balanced curriculum for all subjects, including PE and sport. When inspectors are making a judgement on the quality of the education of a school, inspectors sample a range of subjects and undertake deep dives. This will include PE and sport for some schools.</p><p>Where PE and sport is not selected as a deep dive, sport is nevertheless considered through Ofsted’s exploration of pupils’ wider development. Inspectors will evaluate the extent to which the curriculum goes beyond the academic. They will also consider whether pupils know how to keep physically and mentally healthy. Many schools will do this through their extracurricular clubs and wider experiences. Inspectors will consider the provision for the cultural development of pupils, which includes developing their willingness to participate in and respond positively to artistic, musical, sporting, and cultural opportunities<em>.</em> Inspectors will draw all relevant evidence together using their professional judgement to determine the quality of a school.</p><p>In 2022, Ofsted published its PE and sport research review, which sets out what Ofsted means to improve at PE and sport. Ofsted is currently undertaking research in schools across the country to explore the quality of PE and sport further. Ofsted will publish a report outlining its findings in 2023. The report will detail what schools are doing well and what needs to improve.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 17/01/2023 13:39:00 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4923 label Biography information for Kim Leadbeater