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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

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

628118

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 she has made of the extent to which childcare providers meet the full cost of providing Government-funded childcare places through cross-subsidy from users paying for private childcare places in the same childcare setting.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	51820
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 51819 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

628119

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 information her Department holds on the number of agency workers employed in childcare settings.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	51822
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/11/2016 answer text <p>The department does not collect data about the number of agency workers employed in childcare settings and therefore it does not hold any such information.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 08/11/2016 10:54:52 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

628121

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, how much funding her Department has allocated to the Early Years Capital Fund in each of the next three financial years.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	51821
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/11/2016 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 (this may include providers that currently offer, or plan to offer, provision for 3- and 4-year olds) in their area. 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. At this stage, there are no plans for further capital funding to support the 30 hour programme beyond the current £40 million through the Early Years Capital Fund. We are however, creating a reserve list of projects that we would seek to fund should additional funding become available.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 08/11/2016 10:54:24 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

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