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1105166

registered interest
date	26/03/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Department for Education: Public Expenditure
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 15 March 2019 to Question 229154 on Department for Education: Public Expenditure, how much of the (a) £23 billion his Department has allocated to the school estate and (b) £7 billion his Department has allocated for the creation of new school places between 2015 and 2021 will be spent in the fiscal year (i) 2016-17, (ii) 2017-18, (iii) 2018-19, (iv) 2019-20 and (v) 2020-21.
tabling member constituency	Ashton-under-Lyne
tabling member printed	Angela Rayner
uin	237123
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/04/2019 answer text <p>The Department’s Supplementary Estimate publishes budgets for school's capital programmes annually, which are set out as below.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>2016-17</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2017-18</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2018-19</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>£5.170 million</p></td><td><p>£4.393 million</p></td><td><p>£4.663 million</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Detailed spending plans for future financial years will be set out in future Main and Supplementary Estimates. The sources for this information are available here: <a href="https://www.parliament.uk/documents/commons-committees/Education/Estimates-Memoranda/Department-for-Education-Supplementary-Estimate-2017-18-Memorandum.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.parliament.uk/documents/commons-committees/Education/Estimates-Memoranda/Department-for-Education-Supplementary-Estimate-2017-18-Memorandum.pdf</a> and</p><p><a href="https://www.parliament.uk/documents/commons-committees/Education/Department-for-Education-Main-Estimate-2018-19-Memorandum%20.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.parliament.uk/documents/commons-committees/Education/Department-for-Education-Main-Estimate-2018-19-Memorandum%20.pdf</a>.</p><p> </p><p>The Department has committed £7 billion to create new school places between 2015 and 2021. This includes spend in 2015-16 as well as the years specified in the question. The Department’s main capital funding for new school places is through the annual basic need allocations. The payment schedule for these allocations can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/basic-need-allocations" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/basic-need-allocations</a>.</p><p> </p><p>The Department has also committed £365 million between 2018 and 2021 to create new places and improve facilities for pupils with special educational needs and disabilities. The payment schedule can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/send-provision-capital-funding-for-pupils-with-ehc-plans" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/send-provision-capital-funding-for-pupils-with-ehc-plans</a>.</p><p> </p><p>Additional school places are also created through other capital programmes, including the Condition Improvement Fund, to which a link can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/condition-improvement-fund" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/condition-improvement-fund</a>.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 04/04/2019 15:42:36 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb previous answer version 111288 answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4356 label Biography information for Angela Rayner

1105324

registered interest
date	26/03/2019
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 his Department spent on (a) the universal 15 hours of free childcare for three to four-year olds, (b) the extended entitlement for eligible three to four-year old children of working parents and (c) free childcare for two year olds in 2016-17.
tabling member constituency	Ashton-under-Lyne
tabling member printed	Angela Rayner
uin	237194
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/04/2019 answer text <p>The total final dedicated schools grant funding allocations for 2016-17 were:</p><p> </p><ul><li>£2.22 billion for the universal 15 hours of free childcare for 3 to 4-year-olds;</li></ul><p> </p><ul><li>Nil for the extended entitlement for 3 to 4-year-old children of working parents (the extended entitlement was introduced in September 2017); and</li></ul><p> </p><ul><li>£454 million for the free childcare entitlement for 2-year-olds.</li></ul><p> </p><p>Full details can be found in the first attachment at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><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><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 01/04/2019 15:19:20 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4356 label Biography information for Angela Rayner

1105325

registered interest
date	26/03/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Children: Day Care
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much was spent on (a) tax-free childcare, (b) employer-supported childcare and (c) the childcare element of working tax credit in 2017-18.
tabling member constituency	Ashton-under-Lyne
tabling member printed	Angela Rayner
uin	237195
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/04/2019 answer text <p>Page 100 of the OBR’s March 2019 Economic &amp; Fiscal Outlook contains the Tax-Free Childcare forecast, including the cost for 2017/18 (<a href="https://cdn.obr.uk/March-2019_EFO_Web-Accessible.pdf" target="_blank">https://cdn.obr.uk/March-2019_EFO_Web-Accessible.pdf</a>).</p><p> </p><p>HMRC’s publication ‘Estimated Costs of Principal Tax Reliefs’ includes the forecast cost of Employer Supported Childcare tax reliefs in 2017/18 (<a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/782480/Jan19_Principal_Reliefs_Final.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/782480/Jan19_Principal_Reliefs_Final.pdf</a>).</p><p> </p><p>The forecast cost of the childcare element of Working Tax Credit in 2017/18 is £1.1bn. This is in line with OBR methodology which assumes Universal Credit has no impact on the Working Tax Credit forecast.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 01/04/2019 14:39:36 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	4356 label Biography information for Angela Rayner

1104731

registered interest
date	25/03/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Grammar Schools: Construction
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether it is his policy to allow existing selective schools to open new sites; and whether the Selective School Expansion Fund can be used to fund school expansion onto new sites.
tabling member constituency	Ashton-under-Lyne
tabling member printed	Angela Rayner
uin	236389
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/03/2019 answer text <p>The Department obtains legal advice as appropriate on new policy and its application to individual cases. The Education Act 1996, defines a school as an educational institution which is outside the further education sector and the higher education sector and is an institution for providing primary education, secondary education, or both primary and secondary education. Legislation permits all categories of schools to expand onto additional sites.</p><p>The selective schools expansion fund application guidance sets out that bids for expansions onto an additional site are permitted. The guidance highlights that the establishment of new selective schools is unlawful and that the Department must be confident that satellite proposals are genuine expansions and would not constitute new schools. This guidance can be found here: <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/779310/Selective_schools_expansion_fund_-_Information_for_applicants.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/779310/Selective_schools_expansion_fund_-_Information_for_applicants.pdf</a>.</p><p>A new school can be established by following the relevant processes and legislation as published on GOV.UK as below.</p><p> </p><p>Opening and closing maintained schools: Statutory guidance for proposers and decision-makers can be found here:</p><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/756328/Opening_and_Closing_maintained_schools_Guidance.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/756328/Opening_and_Closing_maintained_schools_Guidance.pdf</a>.</p><p> </p><p>School Organisation (Establishment and discontinuance of schools) Regulations 2013 can be found here: <a href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/3109/contents/made" target="_blank">http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/3109/contents/made</a>.</p><p> </p><p>Collected guidance on opening a free school or mathematics school can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/opening-a-free-school" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/opening-a-free-school</a>.</p><p> </p><p>The free school presumption: Departmental advice for local authorities and new school proposers can be found here: <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/706171/Academy_and_free_school_presumption_departmental_advice.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/706171/Academy_and_free_school_presumption_departmental_advice.pdf</a>.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb grouped question UIN 236390 236391 question first answered 28/03/2019 16:18:33 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4356 label Biography information for Angela Rayner

1104732

registered interest
date	25/03/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Grammar Schools: Construction
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether his Department has received legal advice on whether expansion of existing grammar schools to new sites or campuses is lawful.
tabling member constituency	Ashton-under-Lyne
tabling member printed	Angela Rayner
uin	236390
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/03/2019 answer text <p>The Department obtains legal advice as appropriate on new policy and its application to individual cases. The Education Act 1996, defines a school as an educational institution which is outside the further education sector and the higher education sector and is an institution for providing primary education, secondary education, or both primary and secondary education. Legislation permits all categories of schools to expand onto additional sites.</p><p>The selective schools expansion fund application guidance sets out that bids for expansions onto an additional site are permitted. The guidance highlights that the establishment of new selective schools is unlawful and that the Department must be confident that satellite proposals are genuine expansions and would not constitute new schools. This guidance can be found here: <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/779310/Selective_schools_expansion_fund_-_Information_for_applicants.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/779310/Selective_schools_expansion_fund_-_Information_for_applicants.pdf</a>.</p><p>A new school can be established by following the relevant processes and legislation as published on GOV.UK as below.</p><p> </p><p>Opening and closing maintained schools: Statutory guidance for proposers and decision-makers can be found here:</p><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/756328/Opening_and_Closing_maintained_schools_Guidance.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/756328/Opening_and_Closing_maintained_schools_Guidance.pdf</a>.</p><p> </p><p>School Organisation (Establishment and discontinuance of schools) Regulations 2013 can be found here: <a href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/3109/contents/made" target="_blank">http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/3109/contents/made</a>.</p><p> </p><p>Collected guidance on opening a free school or mathematics school can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/opening-a-free-school" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/opening-a-free-school</a>.</p><p> </p><p>The free school presumption: Departmental advice for local authorities and new school proposers can be found here: <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/706171/Academy_and_free_school_presumption_departmental_advice.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/706171/Academy_and_free_school_presumption_departmental_advice.pdf</a>.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb grouped question UIN 236389 236391 question first answered 28/03/2019 16:18:33 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4356 label Biography information for Angela Rayner

1104734

registered interest
date	25/03/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what criteria his Department uses to define a new school.
tabling member constituency	Ashton-under-Lyne
tabling member printed	Angela Rayner
uin	236391
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/03/2019 answer text <p>The Department obtains legal advice as appropriate on new policy and its application to individual cases. The Education Act 1996, defines a school as an educational institution which is outside the further education sector and the higher education sector and is an institution for providing primary education, secondary education, or both primary and secondary education. Legislation permits all categories of schools to expand onto additional sites.</p><p>The selective schools expansion fund application guidance sets out that bids for expansions onto an additional site are permitted. The guidance highlights that the establishment of new selective schools is unlawful and that the Department must be confident that satellite proposals are genuine expansions and would not constitute new schools. This guidance can be found here: <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/779310/Selective_schools_expansion_fund_-_Information_for_applicants.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/779310/Selective_schools_expansion_fund_-_Information_for_applicants.pdf</a>.</p><p>A new school can be established by following the relevant processes and legislation as published on GOV.UK as below.</p><p> </p><p>Opening and closing maintained schools: Statutory guidance for proposers and decision-makers can be found here:</p><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/756328/Opening_and_Closing_maintained_schools_Guidance.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/756328/Opening_and_Closing_maintained_schools_Guidance.pdf</a>.</p><p> </p><p>School Organisation (Establishment and discontinuance of schools) Regulations 2013 can be found here: <a href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/3109/contents/made" target="_blank">http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/3109/contents/made</a>.</p><p> </p><p>Collected guidance on opening a free school or mathematics school can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/opening-a-free-school" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/opening-a-free-school</a>.</p><p> </p><p>The free school presumption: Departmental advice for local authorities and new school proposers can be found here: <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/706171/Academy_and_free_school_presumption_departmental_advice.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/706171/Academy_and_free_school_presumption_departmental_advice.pdf</a>.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb grouped question UIN 236389 236390 question first answered 28/03/2019 16:18:33 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4356 label Biography information for Angela Rayner

1104916

registered interest
date	25/03/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Children: Day Care
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 25 March 2019 to Question 233582 on Children: Day Care, how much funding his Department plans to allocate to (a) tax free childcare, (b) employer supported childcare and (c) the childcare element of Working Tax Credit in 2019-20.
tabling member constituency	Ashton-under-Lyne
tabling member printed	Angela Rayner
uin	236450
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/03/2019 answer text <p>Page 100 of the OBR’s March 2019 Economic &amp; Fiscal Outlook contains the Tax-Free Childcare forecast, including forecast spending for 2019/20 (<a href="https://cdn.obr.uk/March-2019_EFO_Web-Accessible.pdf" target="_blank">https://cdn.obr.uk/March-2019_EFO_Web-Accessible.pdf</a>).</p><p> </p><p>The forecast cost of Employer Supported Childcare tax reliefs in 2019/20 is £539m.</p><p> </p><p>The forecast cost of the childcare element of Working Tax Credit in 2019/20 is £1,022m. This is in line with OBR methodology which assumes Universal Credit has no impact on the Working Tax Credit forecast.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 28/03/2019 14:20:12 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	4356 label Biography information for Angela Rayner

1104917

registered interest
date	25/03/2019
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, pursuant to the Answer of 25 March 2019 to Question 233582 on Children: Day Care, what estimate he has made of the funding that will be allocated to (a) 15 hours free childcare for all three and four year olds, (b) the additional 15 hours free childcare for eligible working parents of three and four year olds and (c) 15 hours free childcare for the most disadvantaged two year olds in 2019-20.
tabling member constituency	Ashton-under-Lyne
tabling member printed	Angela Rayner
uin	236451
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/03/2019 answer text <p>The initial funding allocations to local authorities for 2019-20 are:</p><p>a) £2.29 billion for the universal 15 hours entitlement for three and four-year-olds</p><p>b) £693 million for the additional 15 hours entitlement for eligible working parents of three and four-year-olds, and</p><p>c) £460 million for the 15 hours entitlement for the most disadvantaged two-year-olds.</p><p> </p><p>Full details, including current allocations for the three additional funding streams (Early Years Pupil Premium, Disability Access Fund, Maintained Nursery Schools supplementary funding) can be found here:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dedicated-schools-grant-dsg-2019-to-2020" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dedicated-schools-grant-dsg-2019-to-2020</a></p><p> </p><p>Final funding allocations will be based on actual take-up according to later census data.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 28/03/2019 15:23:04 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4356 label Biography information for Angela Rayner

1104979

registered interest
date	25/03/2019
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, for what reasons he has withdrawn his Department's myth-busting guide for local authorities on their obligations on children's care; and what plans he has to issue a revised guide.
tabling member constituency	Ashton-under-Lyne
tabling member printed	Angela Rayner
uin	236482
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/04/2019 answer text <p>​The Children’s Social Care myth busting guide was intended to bring clarity to some parts of guidance that had been raised with the department. However, the points raised by Article 39 suggest that the guide did not achieve that. Rather than divert time and resources to litigation we decided to withdraw the guide in its present form pending a full reconsideration of its contents.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 02/04/2019 14:47:05 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4356 label Biography information for Angela Rayner

1093500

registered interest
date	22/03/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	European Social Fund
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the total number and value is of European Social Fund contracts held by (a) the Education and Skills Funding Agency and (b) his Department.
tabling member constituency	Ashton-under-Lyne
tabling member printed	Angela Rayner
uin	235786
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/03/2019 answer text <p>The Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA) procures education and training delivery on behalf of local enterprise partnerships, as a co-financing organisation in the current 2014-20 European Social Fund (ESF) programme. The ESFA is undertaking this procurement exercise as an executive agency of the department.</p><p>Current European Social Fund contracts are due to conclude at the end of March 2019. This includes a total of 294 contracts delivering £495 million worth of provision.</p><p>The ESFA are finalising procurement of new European Social Fund contracts to start in April 2019 and to run until 2021 to make sure that there is no gap in provision between the ending of current European Social Fund contracts and the launch of a successor programme. These contracts are flexible to run in both a deal and no-deal scenario - in the event of a no-deal, the costs of provision are covered by the government’s guarantee. The procurement is for a total of 132 contracts totalling £314 million worth of provision. <strong><br> <br> </strong></p><p><strong><br> </strong></p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton question first answered 27/03/2019 08:47:03 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
tabling member	4356 label Biography information for Angela Rayner