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628116

registered interest
date	03/11/2016
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 full cost of providing 30 hours of free childcare per week in a typical sized childcare setting.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	51819
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/11/2016 answer text <p>The government published an assessment of the cost of childcare in 2015, following a thorough review of the evidence. The review is available from: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/review-of-childcare-costs" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/review-of-childcare-costs</a>.</p><p> </p><p>The government has consulted on providing an average funding rate to local authorities of £4.71 per hour for the government funded 3 and 4 year old offer, of which 95% must be passed to childcare providers. This is above the representative costs per hour for 3 and 4 year olds set out in the review of childcare costs. Providers should therefore not need to subsidise government funding to meet the full cost of providing the 3 and 4 year old offer.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 51820 question first answered 08/11/2016 10:52:03 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

627564

registered interest
date	02/11/2016
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	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether county councils are required to pass on to registered and approved providers 100 per cent of government funding allocated for childcare.
tabling member printed	Lord Willis of Knaresborough
uin	HL2939
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/11/2016 answer text <p>Funding for the early years entitlement is underpinned by the School and Early Years Finance Regulations. Local authorities receive funding from central Government to deliver the early years entitlements through the Dedicated Schools Grant (DSG), which also includes the budgets for schools and high needs. The current regulations do not require local authorities to pass on all early years funding to their providers. Local authorities, in consultation with their Schools Forum, are responsible for deciding how best to distribute the funding across their locality. The current regulations do allow local authorities to hold back some funding from the DSG for central services.</p><p> </p><p>However, when the two year old entitlement was introduced there was an expectation for local authorities to pass all available funding to providers for delivering two year old places.</p><p> </p><p>Under the early years funding reform proposals on which we recently consulted, there will be a requirement for local authorities to pass on at least 93% (in 2017-18) and 95% (thereafter) of their early years budget directly to providers for delivering the three and four year old entitlement. We are currently considering responses to the consultation.</p> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 08/11/2016 15:19:22 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
tabling member	4151 label Biography information for Lord Willis of Knaresborough

627565

registered interest
date	02/11/2016
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	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government why North Yorkshire County Council receives the sixth lowest allowance for childcare providers amongst 160 county councils; and what plans there are to develop a "more level playing field" for providers as set out in the Department for Education consultation <i>Early years funding: changes to funding for 3 and 4 year olds</i>.
tabling member printed	Lord Willis of Knaresborough
uin	HL2940
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/11/2016 answer text <p>This Government is investing £1 billion of additional funding per year in the early years free entitlements, including £300 million per year to increase the national average funding rate. We are determined to allocate this record investment fairly and transparently and that is why we have consulted on an Early Years National Funding Formula, which will determine the funding rates of all local authorities, including North Yorkshire. This consultation has now closed and we will respond in the Autumn.</p><p> </p><p>The consultation included a proposal to require all local authorities to use a universal base rate for all providers from 2019-20 at the latest. This approach will ensure that no child is disadvantaged, in terms of the funding available to support their early education, by the type of childcare setting which they attend.</p> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 10/11/2016 12:36:45 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
tabling member	4151 label Biography information for Lord Willis of Knaresborough

627566

registered interest
date	02/11/2016
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	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what additional funding they plan to provide to compensate childcare providers for increased costs as a result of proposed increases in training requirements applicable to childcare providers and in the National Minimum Wage.
tabling member printed	Lord Willis of Knaresborough
uin	HL2941
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/11/2016 answer text <p>This Government is investing £1 billion of additional funding per year in the early years free entitlements, including £300 million per year to increase the national average funding rate. This record level of investment was based on a rich source of evidence – the ‘Review of Childcare Costs’ which looked at both the current costs of childcare provision and the implications of future cost pressures facing the sector (including the National Living Wage). Copies of the Analytical Report and the Executive Summary are attached.</p><p>We are determined that the maximum amount of this record level of investment reaches childcare providers. That is why, as part of our recent consultation ‘Early years funding: changes to funding for 3- and 4-year-olds’, we proposed that local authorities pass through 95% of their allocated funding to the frontline. Providers will then have the funding and increased choice in how to invest in the quality of their offer, including how to invest in their workforce.</p> answering member printed Lord Nash attachment 1 file name Review of childcare costs - the analytical report.pdf title Analytical report of the review of childcare costs 2 file name Review of childcare costs - Exec Summary of analytical report.pdf title Executive summary of the review of childcare costs question first answered 14/11/2016 11:28:29 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
tabling member	4151 label Biography information for Lord Willis of Knaresborough

627567

registered interest
date	02/11/2016
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	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, should childcare providers be unable to meet the costs of providing the 30 hours free OFSTED-approved childcare service from September 2017, what plans there are to ensure that alternative services are available.
tabling member printed	Lord Willis of Knaresborough
uin	HL2942
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/11/2016 answer text <p>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.</p><p> </p><p>We believe that the childcare market will respond to meet the additional demand for places generated by the extension of the free entitlement. The market has already demonstrated that it is able to respond through the roll-out of the entitlement for disadvantaged two-year-olds introduced in the last Parliament. In January 2016, over 166,000 two-year-olds benefitted from the funded early education, with over 20,000 providers delivering it.</p> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 08/11/2016 15:23:08 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
tabling member	4151 label Biography information for Lord Willis of Knaresborough

622039

registered interest
date	26/10/2016
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, if her Department will publish the data that it is using to measure the effectiveness of the free childcare entitlement in increasing the employment rates of parents.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	50567
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2016 answer text <p>The Department is developing plans to measure the success of the new entitlement, including its effectiveness in increasing the employment rates of parents, once it is in ‘steady state’ following the full rollout of the scheme from September 2017.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 03/11/2016 15:41:09 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

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

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