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631814

registered interest
date	08/11/2016
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, if she will publish the contract she has signed with Childcare Works to ensure that local authorities and childcare providers are ready for the roll-out of the 30 hour free childcare entitlement.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	52478
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/12/2016 answer text <p>It is central government practice to publish all contracts on GOV.UK. I intend to publish the contract for Childcare Works in due course at: <a href="https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Search" target="_blank">ttps://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Search</a></p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 02/12/2016 13:00:14 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

631815

registered interest
date	08/11/2016
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 timescale she has set for the publication of the independent evaluation into the early implementation phase of the 30 hour free childcare entitlement.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	52479
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/11/2016 answer text <p>The independent evaluation of the early implementation of 30 hours free childcare will generate learning for use by all areas ahead of national rollout in September 2017.</p><p> </p><p>Childcare Works, a new £3m delivery contractor contracted by the Department to provide tailored support to councils, is delivering a series of engagement events with local authorities and providers throughout the autumn. These events will be used to disseminate the early learning we have gathered from the eight Early Implementer local authorities. Learning will continue to be captured throughout the year and shared regularly to ensure that it informs all areas’ delivery planning.</p><p> </p><p>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 question first answered 14/11/2016 08:48:00 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

631818

registered interest
date	08/11/2016
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 much her Department is making available through the capital grants fund to support the delivery of the 30 hour free childcare entitlement.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	52463
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/11/2016 answer text <p>The Department for Education has recently made £40m available through the Early Years Capital Fund. This was a bid round committed to creating new 30 hours places and was open to local authorities working in partnership with providers in their area (this may include providers that currently offer, or plan to offer, provision for 3 and 4-year olds). This one off bidding round closed at the end of August 2016 and we intend to publish outcomes in December 2016.</p><p> </p><p>As part of our conditions, we expect those successful capital projects to be complete by August 2017.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 14/11/2016 08:45:07 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

631819

registered interest
date	08/11/2016
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 her Department has taken to assess the potential cost to local authorities of implementing new IT systems to enable the move to the monthly payment system proposed in the Government's publication, 30 hour free childcare entitlement: delivery model, Government consultation response.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	52453
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/11/2016 answer text <p>The Department for Education is committed to ensuring that we do not add unnecessary workload and cost to local authorities and has committed to undertake a new burdens assessment for the extended entitlement, to which we will respond accordingly.</p><p> </p><p>The department is working with an expert group of local authorities and early years providers, including childminder representatives and early years organisations, who are advising on technical aspects of local authorities introducing monthly payment systems. The department is also looking at how we can support local authorities to achieve this.</p><p> </p><p>The department is clear, however, that existing payment arrangements may already meet providers’ needs and we expect local authorities to work in partnership with early years providers to determine and operate the payment process that reflect their specific local requirements and provider circumstances.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 15/11/2016 15:14:58 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

631833

registered interest
date	08/11/2016
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 potential effect of the introduction of the 30-hour free childcare entitlement on sessional early years provision in rural areas.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	52501
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/11/2016 answer text <p>The Department recognises that providers and families living and operating in rural communities are faced with particular barriers in regards to accessing and delivering childcare.</p><p> </p><p>We are therefore looking at what those challenges are and how they can be addressed as part of our 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 the most rural parts of Northumberland have been benefiting from a 30 hours free childcare place a year early.</p><p> </p><p>We have also 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. 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 15/11/2016 15:10:45 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

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

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