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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

637059

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, whether additional support will be available for providers who are negatively financially impacted as a result of the introduction of 30 hours of free childcare policy.
tabling member constituency	North Swindon
tabling member printed	Justin Tomlinson
uin	52964
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/11/2016 answer text <p>The Government is committed to extending the entitlement to childcare from 15 to 30 hours a week for working parents of three- and four-year-olds. We are clear that we need to get the funding right to ensure that providers are funded on a fair and sustainable basis. We will be investing over £1billion more per year by 2019-20 to fund our commitments on the early years entitlements – this includes £300 million per year from 2017-18 for a significant increase to the hourly rate paid for the two-, three- and four-year-old entitlements.</p><p> </p><p>Our recent consultation set out proposals to allocate our record level of funding fairly and transparently, with the maximum amount reaching providers. We will publish our response shortly.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 22/11/2016 16:07:43 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson

637060

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 steps she is taking to ensure that providers receive the adequate level of funding to deliver the 30 hours of free childcare policy.
tabling member constituency	North Swindon
tabling member printed	Justin Tomlinson
uin	52965
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/11/2016 answer text <p>The Government will be investing over £1billion more per year by 2019-20 to fund our commitments on the early years entitlements – this includes £300 million per year from 2017-18 for a significant increase to the hourly rate paid for the two-, three- and four-year-old entitlements.</p><p> </p><p>It is vital that funding for these entitlements is fairly distributed between different parts of the country and different types of providers, so that they can deliver both the existing 15-hour entitlement and the extended 30-hour entitlement for working parents, on a sustainable basis.</p><p> </p><p>That is why we have recently consulted on our proposals for a national funding formula for the early years. Under our proposals, 75% of local authorities would have higher funding rates, and providers in the vast majority of local authorities can expect to gain funding, as maximum funding is passed through to the frontline. We are currently considering all responses to the consultation, and are planning to publish the government’s response shortly.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 22/11/2016 16:13:53 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson

636182

registered interest
date	14/11/2016
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 often she plans to review the per hour funding allocated to providers as part of the 30 hours free childcare entitlement.
tabling member constituency	North Swindon
tabling member printed	Justin Tomlinson
uin	52741
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/11/2016 answer text <p>The Government committed, following the 2015 Spending Review, to invest £1 billion of additional funding per year in the early years free entitlements, including £300 million per year to increase national average funding rates. The hourly funding rate for each local authority to deliver 30 hours of childcare will be decided by the final early years national funding formula. The hourly funding rate for individual childcare providers will then be set annually by each local authority, following consultation with providers in their area.</p><p> </p><p>The department is developing plans to monitor the implementation of 30 hours of childcare once it is in ‘steady state’ following the full rollout of the scheme from September 2017. We have been clear that getting the funding right is critical to successful delivery of this new entitlement.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 22/11/2016 16:26:08 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson

636183

registered interest
date	14/11/2016
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 children are receiving 30 hours of free childcare under the pilot of that policy.
tabling member constituency	North Swindon
tabling member printed	Justin Tomlinson
uin	52742
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/11/2016 answer text <p>8 local authorities started delivering the 30 hours childcare entitlement in September 2016, providing invaluable learning ahead of full rollout in September 2017. Over 3,600 children have already accessed an extended entitlement place and we expect this to rise to around 5,000 children over the course of the pilot.</p><p>The Department has since commissioned an independent evaluation of early implementation of the extended entitlement. This evaluation will focus on generating learning that can be used by Early Implementers and all local authorities ahead of national rollout.</p><p>Learning from the early implementers will be shared throughout the year. There will be a national findings event in the spring next year, and a formal evaluation report will be published next summer.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 52743 question first answered 22/11/2016 16:04:24 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson

636184

registered interest
date	14/11/2016
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 pilot of the 30 hours free childcare entitlement.
tabling member constituency	North Swindon
tabling member printed	Justin Tomlinson
uin	52743
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/11/2016 answer text <p>8 local authorities started delivering the 30 hours childcare entitlement in September 2016, providing invaluable learning ahead of full rollout in September 2017. Over 3,600 children have already accessed an extended entitlement place and we expect this to rise to around 5,000 children over the course of the pilot.</p><p>The Department has since commissioned an independent evaluation of early implementation of the extended entitlement. This evaluation will focus on generating learning that can be used by Early Implementers and all local authorities ahead of national rollout.</p><p>Learning from the early implementers will be shared throughout the year. There will be a national findings event in the spring next year, and a formal evaluation report will be published next summer.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 52742 question first answered 22/11/2016 16:04:24 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson