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1180146

registered interest
date	24/02/2020
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Apprentices: Taxation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the amount of Apprenticeship Levy funding for Level 6 qualifications that has been allocated to learners who already held a Level 6 qualification in each financial year for which data is available.
tabling member constituency	Ashton-under-Lyne
tabling member printed	Angela Rayner
uin	20061
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2020 answer text <p>The department is not able to make an accurate estimate of the funding for level 6 qualifications which has been allocated to learners who already hold a qualification at level 6, as data currently held on the prior attainment of apprentices is incomplete.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Chichester answering member printed Gillian Keegan question first answered 27/02/2020 16:20:55 answering member 4680 label Biography information for Gillian Keegan
tabling member	4356 label Biography information for Angela Rayner

1176481

registered interest
date	05/02/2020
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, pursuant to the Answer of 14 January 2020 to Question 1755 how many of the 530,000 three and four year olds who are ineligible for 30 hours free childcare due to their parents not meeting the income requirement are (a) in single parent families and (b) in families where parents are in couples.
tabling member constituency	Ashton-under-Lyne
tabling member printed	Angela Rayner
uin	13023
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/02/2020 answer text <p>In our response to question 1755, the Department for Education estimated that in January 2019, 530,000 3-4 year-olds were ineligible for 30 hours due to one or both of their parents not meeting the minimum income requirements (more than the equivalent to 16 hours a week at national minimum wage or national living wage which is currently £6,800 a year). This included families where one or both parents chose not to or were unable to work. Information about the exact number of children in each category is not readily available and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p><p>There is support available for parents with childcare costs outside of the free early education entitlements. For example, eligible families can get help with 85% of their childcare costs through Universal Credit, subject to a monthly limit of £646 for one child or £1108 for two or more children. Further information can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/universal-credit/what-youll-get" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/universal-credit/what-youll-get</a>. Families can also get help with the costs of childcare from the Tax Free Childcare scheme.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 10/02/2020 16:26:15 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4356 label Biography information for Angela Rayner

1169864

registered interest
date	09/01/2020
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 3-4 year old children are ineligible for 30 hours of free childcare as a result of (a) one parent and (b) both parents not meeting the minimum earnings threshold.
tabling member constituency	Ashton-under-Lyne
tabling member printed	Angela Rayner
uin	1755
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/01/2020 answer text <p>The Department aims to ensure parents have access to a range of affordable childcare, giving them increased flexibility in their working hours and helping children thrive in the crucial early years. The Department is planning to spend more than £3.6 billion to support our early education entitlements in 2020-21.</p><p>All 3-4-year-old children in England are eligible for the universal entitlement to 15 hours a week of early education. The additional 15 hours of early education a week, known as ’30 hours’, is available to families where both parents are working, or the sole parent is working in a lone parent family. To be eligible, each parent in a two-parent family, or the sole parent, must earn less than £100,000 a year and more than the equivalent to 16 hours a week at national minimum wage or national living wage (currently £6,800 a year). This also includes self-employed parents and parents on zero-hour contracts.</p><p> </p><p>All children aged 4 at 31 August in England are entitled to a place in a reception class at school starting that September.</p><p>The Department for Education estimates that in January 2019, 530,000 3-4-year-olds were ineligible for the additional 15 hours due to one or both of their parents earning below the lower income threshold. This is estimated as follows (figures rounded to nearest 10,000):</p><ul><li>There were 1,370,000 children aged 3 or 4 at 31 December 2018.</li><li>410,000 4-year-olds were in a reception place in January 2019.</li><li>A further 410,000 3-4 year-olds were eligible for 30 hours.</li><li>20,000 3-4-year-olds were ineligible for 30 hours due to one of their parents earning over £100,000 per year. This is estimated using the Survey of Personal Incomes publication.</li><li>Therefore we estimate that there are 530,000 3-4-year-olds who are ineligible for 30 hours because their parents do not meet the minimum income requirements. This includes families where one or both parents choose not to or are unable to work.</li></ul><p> </p><p>The Department does not hold information on these estimated 530,000 children separated out as requested in parts a and b of the question.</p><p> </p><p>There is support available for parents with childcare costs outside of the free early education entitlements. Eligible families can get help with 85% of their childcare costs through Universal Credit, subject to a monthly limit of £646 for one child or £1108 for two or more children. Further information can be found at the following link: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/universal-credit/what-youll-get" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/universal-credit/what-youll-get</a>. Families can receive help with the costs of childcare from the Tax-Free Childcare scheme.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 14/01/2020 17:37:40 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4356 label Biography information for Angela Rayner

1150415

registered interest
date	17/10/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Relationships and Sex Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when he plans to issue guidance to all schools on implementing relationships and sex education.
tabling member constituency	Ashton-under-Lyne
tabling member printed	Angela Rayner
uin	1680
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2019 answer text <p>The Department is committed to supporting schools to deliver high quality teaching of relationships education for all primary aged pupils, relationships and sex education for all secondary aged pupils, and health education for all pupils in state-funded schools.</p><p>From spring 2020, all teachers will have access to a central programme of support that will focus on tools to enhance practice and teacher confidence, including an implementation guide, access to high-quality resources, and training that can be delivered online and face to face.</p><p>The Department has been working with schools, teachers and sector experts to develop support materials that are suited to the sector’s needs and that will enable the delivery of the entire statutory guidance including areas such as consent, HIV, sexual health and mental health. The Department will continue to engage with the wide range of stakeholders that have helped informed key decisions on these subjects.</p><p>To support this work, the Department has convened a new working group, who will provide insight into how the new guidance is working in practice. This group, with representatives from teaching unions, sector experts, faith and minority groups, parents and young people, provides us with evidence and feedback to improve the delivery of these subjects. The working group met for the first time in September and the Department intends to publish the membership and terms of reference on GOV.UK in due course.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb grouped question UIN 1678 1679 1681 question first answered 22/10/2019 16:25:32 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4356 label Biography information for Angela Rayner

1147764

registered interest
date	02/10/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pre-school Education: Admissions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much of his Department’s capital departmental expenditure limit was spent on creating new early years places in each financial year since 2010-11; and how many new places were created as a result of that spending.
tabling member constituency	Ashton-under-Lyne
tabling member printed	Angela Rayner
uin	293604
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/10/2019 answer text <p>In 2012-13, the Department announced £100 million of capital allocations for local authorities to support implementation of early years education for two-year olds from lower income families. Local authorities were responsible for distributing this capital investment and so the Department does not hold information on the number of places created by this funding.</p><p>The Department allocated £100 million over 2016-17 and 2017-18 to local authorities to support successful bids to the Early Years Capital Fund (EYCF). The Department regularly assesses the progress of these projects and will publish the outcomes in due course when all projects have completed. Information detailing the outcomes from the EYCF bidding round will be published at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/early-years-capital-fund-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/early-years-capital-fund-2017</a>.</p><p>In July 2019, the Department announced the outcome of applications to the School Nurseries Capital Fund. This fund, of nearly £24 million for 69 projects, will help to create new high-quality school-based nursery places for 2, 3 and 4-year-olds. The profiling of this spend will depend on the progress of individual projects. The full list of successful projects for this fund can be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/school-nurseries-capital-fund-list-of-application-outcomes" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/school-nurseries-capital-fund-list-of-application-outcomes</a>.</p><p>The Department will publish the outcomes in due course when all projects have completed.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 07/10/2019 16:24:29 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4356 label Biography information for Angela Rayner

1143962

registered interest
date	02/09/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the post on his Department's education in the media blog, entitled Supporting teachers for the upcoming year, dated 30 August 2019, for what reason were representatives of trades unions representing school support staff not invited to attend the meeting with education trade unions on 29 August 2019; and what plans he has to meet those trades unions.
tabling member constituency	Ashton-under-Lyne
tabling member printed	Angela Rayner
uin	284904
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2019 answer text <p>The meeting on 29 August 2019 between my right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Education and unions representing teachers and school leaders was an opportunity to discuss issues particularly relevant to those members of the school workforce, including how we can recruit and retain the best and most experienced teachers. The Department for Education regularly engages with unions representing school support staff and that engagement will continue.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 05/09/2019 16:07:08 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4356 label Biography information for Angela Rayner

1142222

registered interest
date	25/07/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Post-18 Education and Funding Review
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will make it his policy to implement the recommendations of the Augar Review, and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Ashton-under-Lyne
tabling member printed	Angela Rayner
uin	282368
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/09/2019 answer text <p>As part of our ongoing review of Post-18 Education and Funding, the government will be considering Philip Augar’s recommendations carefully. The government has not yet taken decisions with regards to the recommendations put forward.</p><p>Students from the lowest-income families have access to the largest ever amounts of cash-in-hand support for their living costs. The government has announced a further 2.9% increase to maximum grants and loans for the 2020/21 academic year.</p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson grouped question UIN 282371 question first answered 03/09/2019 07:15:54 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	4356 label Biography information for Angela Rayner

1142294

registered interest
date	25/07/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Students: Grants
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether it is his policy to reintroduce maintenance grants for students from low and middle income backgrounds in higher education.
tabling member constituency	Ashton-under-Lyne
tabling member printed	Angela Rayner
uin	282371
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/09/2019 answer text <p>As part of our ongoing review of Post-18 Education and Funding, the government will be considering Philip Augar’s recommendations carefully. The government has not yet taken decisions with regards to the recommendations put forward.</p><p>Students from the lowest-income families have access to the largest ever amounts of cash-in-hand support for their living costs. The government has announced a further 2.9% increase to maximum grants and loans for the 2020/21 academic year.</p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson grouped question UIN 282368 question first answered 03/09/2019 07:15:54 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	4356 label Biography information for Angela Rayner

1142410

registered interest
date	25/07/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Department for Education: Civil Servants
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many civil servants there are in his Department; and how many civil servants are working primarily on preparation for the UK leaving the EU without a deal.
tabling member constituency	Ashton-under-Lyne
tabling member printed	Angela Rayner
uin	282376
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/09/2019 answer text <p>As of 31 July, there were 6463.50 full-time equivalent civil servants in the Department for Education.</p><p>Members of staff across the department work on EU Exit issues across a range of policy areas as required. In addition to a central co-ordinating team, EU exit work is embedded and prioritised as necessary across the department’s policy responsibilities. It is therefore not possible to give an accurate figure specifically for work on no deal EU exit issues.</p> answering member constituency Saffron Walden answering member printed Mrs Kemi Badenoch question first answered 03/09/2019 07:28:14 answering member 4597 label Biography information for Kemi Badenoch
tabling member	4356 label Biography information for Angela Rayner

1141487

registered interest
date	23/07/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children's Play: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what funding his Department allocated (a) to pathfinder local authorities to refurbish or build play areas as part of the national play strategy and (b) for other elements of the national play strategy in the (a) 2008-09 and (b) 2009-10 financial years.
tabling member constituency	Ashton-under-Lyne
tabling member printed	Angela Rayner
uin	281137
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/08/2019 answer text <p>The allocations to local authorities to support the development of community play facilities as part of the 2008 national play strategy can be found in the Children’s Services Local Authority Circular LAC Ref: 3112080004, which can be found at the following link: <a href="https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20090810183123/http:/www.dcsf.gov.uk/play/" target="_blank">https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20090810183123/http://www.dcsf.gov.uk/play/</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Saffron Walden answering member printed Mrs Kemi Badenoch question first answered 02/08/2019 13:03:04 answering member 4597 label Biography information for Kemi Badenoch previous answer version 131232 answering member constituency Saffron Walden answering member printed Mrs Kemi Badenoch answering member 4597 label Biography information for Kemi Badenoch
tabling member	4356 label Biography information for Angela Rayner