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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

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

631974

registered interest
date	08/11/2016
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Children: Day Care
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment his Department has made of whether childcare provision will be sufficient to provide for the potential change in the number of parents with pre-school age children who will move into work after the benefit cap changes; if he will ensure that such parents with high priority access to the Flexible Support Fund pay for the deposit and upfront fees required by childcare providers.
tabling member constituency	Oldham East and Saddleworth
tabling member printed	Debbie Abrahams
uin	52248
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/11/2016 answer text <p>The Government is committed to helping parents into a job that fits with their caring responsibilities. That is why it offers 15 hours of free childcare for the most disadvantaged 2 year olds, and all 3 and 4 year olds, worth up to £2,500 per child per year (rising to 30 hours for working parents of 3 and 4 year olds from September 2017, worth around £5,000 per year), as well as support for childcare costs through Working Tax Credits and Universal Credit. The Government is also introducing Tax-Free Childcare, worth up to £2,000 per year per child up to age 12 and up to £4,000 for disabled children aged up to 17, available to around 2 million households from early 2017.</p><p> </p><p>The Flexible Support Fund is available to be used by District Managers and work coaches to provide the local support that claimants may need to return to work, including additional provision to support claimants who may be impacted by the new levels of the benefit cap. This support can include upfront childcare costs, up to £175 per week for one child (up to a daily limit of £35) or £300 per week for two or more children (up to a daily limit of £60), for claimants who have found employment.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 14/11/2016 17:16:19 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4212 label Biography information for Debbie Abrahams

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

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