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619437

registered interest
date	24/10/2016
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	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is their estimate of the number of children who will no longer be able to receive more than 15 hours child care a week as a result of changes to their policy on child care, and how much it would cost local authorities to fund such provision.
tabling member printed	Lord Beecham
uin	HL2545
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2016 answer text <p>The Government will be investing £6 billion per year in childcare by the end of this Parliament. That includes doubling the free offer for three- and four-year-olds with working parents to 30 hours, supporting families with the cost and flexibility of childcare, introducing tax-free childcare worth up to £2,000 per child per year and increasing support for low-income parents on Universal Credit.</p><p> </p><p>Every three- ‎and four-year-old, and the most disadvantaged two-year-olds will continue to benefit from 15 hours a week of free early education. Local authorities may also choose to provide additional hours of childcare. Such decisions are a matter for individual local authorities.</p> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 03/11/2016 15:55:13 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
tabling member	4181 label Biography information for Lord Beecham

619918

registered interest
date	24/10/2016
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 proportion of full day care staff had an Early Years Educator Level 3 qualification or above in each year since 2013.
tabling member constituency	Burnley
tabling member printed	Julie Cooper
uin	49964
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/10/2016 answer text <p>The 2013 Childcare and Early Years Provider Survey showed that 87% of staff in full day care settings are now qualified to at least level 3. This is an increase from 75% in 2008.</p><p> </p><p>The Department does not hold this data for the years since 2013, the data for 2016 will be available by early 2017.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 31/10/2016 17:36:40 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4405 label Biography information for Julie Cooper

606768

registered interest
date	20/10/2016
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 support her Department is giving to rural nurseries to ensure they are able to meet the Government's commitment of providing 30 free hours of childcare.
tabling member constituency	Somerton and Frome
tabling member printed	David Warburton
uin	49673
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/11/2016 answer text <p>We have recently consulted on a comprehensive set of reforms to the early years funding system, and one of our proposals is to allow local authorities to use a rurality/sparsity supplement in their local funding formulae, in recognition that there may be unavoidable higher costs to providers operating in sparsely populated, rural areas with limited demand. We are currently considering all responses to the consultation and are planning to publish the government’s response in the autumn.</p><p> </p><p>We are also keen to gather learning and test how the extended entitlement will operate in a range of area types, including rural areas. Through Early Implementation of the 30 Hours Free Childcare entitlement, Northumberland, one of our early implementer local authorities, is looking specifically at how the extended hours work for and impact on providers operating within the most rural postcodes in Northumberland. Since September, over 500 children in rural parts of Northumberland have been benefiting from a 30 hours free childcare place a year early.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 02/11/2016 17:28:38 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4526 label Biography information for David Warburton

604014

registered interest
date	17/10/2016
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 recent representations she has received from childcare providers on funding concerns relating to the Government's commitment to offer three and four-year-olds 30 free hours of childcare.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	49026
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/11/2016 answer text <p>The Government published the consultation ‘Early years funding: changes to funding for 3- and 4-year-olds’ on 11 August 2016 (<a href="https://consult.education.gov.uk/early-years-funding/eynff/consult_view" target="_blank">https://consult.education.gov.uk/early-years-funding/eynff/consult_view</a>). The consultation has now closed and we have received 3,121 responses. Of these, 64% identified themselves as childcare providers or practitioners and 22% as representing the maintained sector. The Government’s response to the consultation is planned for later this autumn.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 02/11/2016 17:27:39 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

604021

registered interest
date	17/10/2016
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 information she holds on the proportion of childcare providers offering free places as part of the Government's commitment to offer three and four-year-olds 30 free hours of childcare.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	49025
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/10/2016 answer text <p>The latest Statistical First Release published in June 2016 shows that 45,075 childcare providers were delivering funded early education to three and four year olds. 93% of three-year-olds and 97% of four-year-olds were taking up 15 hours of free childcare per week. This information is available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/education-provision-children-under-5-years-of-age-january-2016" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/education-provision-children-under-5-years-of-age-january-2016</a></p><p> </p><p>Working parents of three- and four-year olds will be able to access 30 hours of free childcare from September 2017. The Government is making a record-level of investment in early years to ensure that childcare providers receive sufficient funding to deliver the 30 hour entitlement. This includes increasing spending on the free entitlements by over £1 billion per year by 2019-20 and providing £300 million per year from 2017-18 for a significant increase to the rate paid for the two, three- and four-year- old entitlements. Alongside this, we launched a consultation on reforms to Early Years funding on 11 August, which is available at: <a href="https://consult.education.gov.uk/early-years-funding/eynff" target="_blank">https://consult.education.gov.uk/early-years-funding/eynff</a></p><p> </p><p>The purpose of the funding reforms is to ensure that funding is transparently and fairly matched to need and fairly distributed between different types of providers and different parts of the country. We will publish the government response to this consultation later this year.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has also run a bidding round to allocate £40 million of capital funding to local authorities and providers which can demonstrate that they will work in partnership to deliver the 30 hour entitlement. The successful projects will be announced in December 2016.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 31/10/2016 17:37:49 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

601032

registered interest
date	13/10/2016
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 much funding per head is received for childcare in (a) Barnsley East constituency, (b) Barnsley, (c) Yorkshire and the Humber and (d) the UK in the latest period for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley East
tabling member printed	Michael Dugher
uin	48585
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/11/2016 answer text <p>Funding for the free early years entitlements is allocated on a local authority basis. In 2016-17[1], the relevant hourly funding rates per child were as follows:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Local authority</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Three and four year old entitlement</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Two year old entitlement</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Barnsley</p></td><td><p>£3.99</p></td><td><p>£4.85</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bradford</p></td><td><p>£5.19</p></td><td><p>£4.85</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Calderdale</p></td><td><p>£4.15</p></td><td><p>£4.85</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Doncaster</p></td><td><p>£3.87</p></td><td><p>£4.85</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East Riding of Yorkshire</p></td><td><p>£4.40</p></td><td><p>£4.85</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Kingston upon Hull, City of</p></td><td><p>£4.20</p></td><td><p>£4.85</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Kirklees</p></td><td><p>£4.37</p></td><td><p>£4.85</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Leeds</p></td><td><p>£4.09</p></td><td><p>£4.85</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North East Lincolnshire</p></td><td><p>£3.72</p></td><td><p>£4.85</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North Lincolnshire</p></td><td><p>£4.39</p></td><td><p>£4.85</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North Yorkshire</p></td><td><p>£4.49</p></td><td><p>£4.85</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Rotherham</p></td><td><p>£4.07</p></td><td><p>£4.85</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sheffield</p></td><td><p>£4.51</p></td><td><p>£4.85</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wakefield</p></td><td><p>£4.14</p></td><td><p>£4.85</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>York</p></td><td><p>£3.63</p></td><td><p>£4.85</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>In 2016-17, the national average hourly funding rates paid by the Department for Education to local authorities in England is £4.51 for three and four year olds and £5.09 for two-year-olds.</p><p> </p><p>All funding rates for three and four year olds are exclusive of the Early Years Pupil Premium which is an additional funding stream for disadvantaged children.</p><p> </p><p>The figures given above relate to England. Childcare policy for Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales is devolved.</p><p> </p><p>[1] <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dedicated-schools-grant-dsg-2016-to-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dedicated-schools-grant-dsg-2016-to-2017</a></p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 07/11/2016 17:55:32 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	3916 label Biography information for Michael Dugher

601033

registered interest
date	13/10/2016
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 much funding per head has been allocated for childcare in (a) Barnsley East constituency, (b) Barnsley, (c) Yorkshire and the Humber and (d) the UK in the financial years (i) 2016-17 and (ii) 2017-18.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley East
tabling member printed	Michael Dugher
uin	48586
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/11/2016 answer text <p>Funding for the free early years entitlements is allocated on a local authority basis. In 2016-17, the relevant hourly funding rates per child were as follows:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>LAs</p></td><td><p>Three and Four Year old Entitilement</p></td><td><p>Two year old entitlement</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Barnsley</p></td><td><p>£3.99</p></td><td><p>£4.85</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bradford</p></td><td><p>£5.19</p></td><td><p>£4.85</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Calderdale</p></td><td><p>£4.15</p></td><td><p>£4.85</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Doncaster</p></td><td><p>£3.87</p></td><td><p>£4.85</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East Riding of Yorkshire</p></td><td><p>£4.40</p></td><td><p>£4.85</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Kingston upon Hull City of</p></td><td><p>£4.20</p></td><td><p>£4.85</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Kirkless</p></td><td><p>£4.37</p></td><td><p>£4.85</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Leeds</p></td><td><p>£4.09</p></td><td><p>£4.85</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North East Lincolnshire</p></td><td><p>£3.72</p></td><td><p>£4.85</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North Lincolnshire</p></td><td><p>£4.39</p></td><td><p>£4.85</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North Yorkshire</p></td><td><p>£4.49</p></td><td><p>£4.85</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Rotherham</p></td><td><p>£4.07</p></td><td><p>£4.85</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sheffield</p></td><td><p>£4.51</p></td><td><p>£4.85</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wakefield</p></td><td><p>£4.14</p></td><td><p>£4.85</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>York</p></td><td><p>£3.63</p></td><td><p>£4.85</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The figures given above relate to England. Childcare policy for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland is devolved. In 2016-17, the national average hourly funding rate paid by the Department for Education to local authorities in England, is £4.51 for three and four-year-olds and £5.09 for two-year-olds.</p><p> </p><p>All funding rates for three and four-year-olds are exclusive of the Early Years Pupil Premium which is an additional funding stream for disadvantaged children.</p><p> </p><p>The new funding rates under our proposed early years national funding formula from 2017-18, can be found here:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/early-years-funding-changes-to-funding-for-3-and-4-year-olds" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/early-years-funding-changes-to-funding-for-3-and-4-year-olds</a></p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 11/11/2016 10:56:43 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	3916 label Biography information for Michael Dugher

601044

registered interest
date	13/10/2016
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 estimate she has made of the amount and proportion of funding for the free childcare entitlement which is currently retained by local authorities to support wider early years work.
tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
uin	48531
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/11/2016 answer text <p>Data from local authority planned spend for 2016-17 shows that nationally local authorities plan to centrally retain 7% (£149 million) of their delegated budget for three and four year olds and 7% (£36m) for the two year old entitlement. The total local authority delegated budget for three and four year olds is £2.3 billion and £523 million for two year olds. This excludes the planned budget for the early years pupil premium.</p><p> </p><p>This data is as reported by the local authorities.</p><p> </p><p>Our recent consultation on changes to funding for three- and four-year-olds proposed that all local authorities must pass 93% in 2017-18 then 95% in 2018-19 of early years funding to providers. This would maximise funding to the frontline.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 07/11/2016 17:56:03 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell