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769649

registered interest
date	12/10/2017
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Department for Communities and Local Government: Living Wage
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what proportion of directly employed staff of his Department are paid at least the national living wage.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	107464
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2017 answer text <p>All of the Department's directly employed staff are paid at least the national living wage.</p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones question first answered 17/10/2017 09:56:19 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

769662

registered interest
date	12/10/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pre-school Education: Admissions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the report entitled, Study of early education and development: the potential value for money of early education, published in July 2017, what sample size was used to calculate the mean hourly delivery cost for a three to four-year old place in the east of England.
tabling member constituency	Central Suffolk and North Ipswich
tabling member printed	Dr Dan Poulter
uin	107332
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2017 answer text <p>The mean hourly delivery cost for a three-four-year old place in the east of England was not used in the Study of Early Education and Development (SEED): the potential value for money of early education, published in July 2017. A mean hourly delivery cost for a three-four-year old place in England was used; this was £3.72. This was taken from the SEED: the cost and funding of early education report, published January 2017.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 17/10/2017 09:31:40 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
tabling member	3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter

769663

registered interest
date	12/10/2017
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 reason parents must confirm every three months that they are eligible for 30 hours of free childcare; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Oxford West and Abingdon
tabling member printed	Layla Moran
uin	107333
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2017 answer text <p>Every three months parents need to reconfirm their eligibility for 30 hours free childcare. This is to check they still meet the eligibility criteria and are therefore still entitled to receive the offer. Taxpayers’ money should not be used to give parents free childcare if they do not qualify for it.</p><p> </p><p>Parents should receive a communication via text message and/or email, four weeks before their reconfirmation deadline and again two weeks before the deadline if they still have not reconfirmed. This communication will tell them that they have a secure message to read. This message will remind them to reconfirm and can be found in the ‘secure messages’ section of their childcare account. The Department for Education continues to disseminate key messages on 30 hours free childcare policy to parents through Local Authorities.</p><p> </p><p>The Department for Education consulted extensively on the 30 hours free childcare policy. This included the provision that parents would have to reconfirm their eligibility for 30 hours free childcare every three months. The policy was debated by both Houses of Parliament during passage of the Childcare Bill in 2016. The policy was also subject to further scrutiny in both Houses when the Childcare (Early Years Provision Free of Charge) (Extended Entitlement) Regulations 2016 were debated. There are currently no plans to amend these regulations.</p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill grouped question UIN 107334 107335 question first answered 17/10/2017 09:29:17 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
tabling member	4656 label Biography information for Layla Moran

769664

registered interest
date	12/10/2017
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 is taking to inform parents of the need to confirm every three months that they are eligible for 30 hours of free childcare.
tabling member constituency	Oxford West and Abingdon
tabling member printed	Layla Moran
uin	107334
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2017 answer text <p>Every three months parents need to reconfirm their eligibility for 30 hours free childcare. This is to check they still meet the eligibility criteria and are therefore still entitled to receive the offer. Taxpayers’ money should not be used to give parents free childcare if they do not qualify for it.</p><p> </p><p>Parents should receive a communication via text message and/or email, four weeks before their reconfirmation deadline and again two weeks before the deadline if they still have not reconfirmed. This communication will tell them that they have a secure message to read. This message will remind them to reconfirm and can be found in the ‘secure messages’ section of their childcare account. The Department for Education continues to disseminate key messages on 30 hours free childcare policy to parents through Local Authorities.</p><p> </p><p>The Department for Education consulted extensively on the 30 hours free childcare policy. This included the provision that parents would have to reconfirm their eligibility for 30 hours free childcare every three months. The policy was debated by both Houses of Parliament during passage of the Childcare Bill in 2016. The policy was also subject to further scrutiny in both Houses when the Childcare (Early Years Provision Free of Charge) (Extended Entitlement) Regulations 2016 were debated. There are currently no plans to amend these regulations.</p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill grouped question UIN 107333 107335 question first answered 17/10/2017 09:29:17 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
tabling member	4656 label Biography information for Layla Moran

769666

registered interest
date	12/10/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Childcare
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make it her policy to require parents to confirm their eligibility for free childcare once a year instead of every three months.
tabling member constituency	Oxford West and Abingdon
tabling member printed	Layla Moran
uin	107335
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2017 answer text <p>Every three months parents need to reconfirm their eligibility for 30 hours free childcare. This is to check they still meet the eligibility criteria and are therefore still entitled to receive the offer. Taxpayers’ money should not be used to give parents free childcare if they do not qualify for it.</p><p> </p><p>Parents should receive a communication via text message and/or email, four weeks before their reconfirmation deadline and again two weeks before the deadline if they still have not reconfirmed. This communication will tell them that they have a secure message to read. This message will remind them to reconfirm and can be found in the ‘secure messages’ section of their childcare account. The Department for Education continues to disseminate key messages on 30 hours free childcare policy to parents through Local Authorities.</p><p> </p><p>The Department for Education consulted extensively on the 30 hours free childcare policy. This included the provision that parents would have to reconfirm their eligibility for 30 hours free childcare every three months. The policy was debated by both Houses of Parliament during passage of the Childcare Bill in 2016. The policy was also subject to further scrutiny in both Houses when the Childcare (Early Years Provision Free of Charge) (Extended Entitlement) Regulations 2016 were debated. There are currently no plans to amend these regulations.</p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill grouped question UIN 107333 107334 question first answered 17/10/2017 09:29:17 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
tabling member	4656 label Biography information for Layla Moran

769672

registered interest
date	12/10/2017
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 many people who have been issued with a 30 hours eligibility code have not had their code validated due to (a) a failure to find a childcare provider willing to offer a place and (b) technical issues validating that code.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	107420
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2017 answer text <p>On 12 October 2017, the Department for Education published data that set out the number of eligibility codes issued for 30 hours’ free childcare by 31 August 2017 and the number of codes validated by 9 October 2017. This release of data can be found at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/651185/30-hours_childcare_management_information_October_2017_update.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/651185/30-hours_childcare_management_information_October_2017_update.pdf</a>.</p><p> </p><p>The Department for Education does not hold information relating to why a parent has not yet validated their 30 hours’ eligibility code.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 17/10/2017 09:33:30 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

769758

registered interest
date	12/10/2017
answering body	Wales Office
answering dept id	28
answering dept short name	Wales
answering dept sort name	Wales
hansard heading	Ports: Wales
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what assessment his Department has made of the readiness of Welsh ports to facilitate any added procedural processes in the event that the UK leaves the EU without a withdrawal agreement.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
uin	107429
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2017 answer text <p>Since the vote to leave the EU I, as well as a number of ministerial colleagues, have visited ports in Wales to discuss a number of issues, including their operational readiness for our leaving the European Union.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is committed to ensuring that withdrawal from the EU is a successful and smooth process for all parts of the UK, and we are conscious that a significant proportion of the traffic at some ports is not currently subject to customs controls. We want to ensure that traffic continues to flow freely at all UK ports and airports, including Holyhead, Fishguard and Pembroke Dock, and we will seek to ensure that customs arrangements and mechanisms are as frictionless as possible, and that trade fluidity is maintained. Officials in the Wales Office and colleagues across Government are working with port operators and other stakeholders in Wales to support the smooth and orderly implementation of these new arrangements.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Vale of Glamorgan answering member printed Alun Cairns question first answered 17/10/2017 09:04:30 answering member 4086 label Biography information for Alun Cairns
tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

769767

registered interest
date	12/10/2017
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	Department for Work and Pensions: Telephone Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many calls to his Department's helplines have been made in Wrexham constituency in each month in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Wrexham
tabling member printed	Ian C. Lucas
uin	107325
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2017 answer text <p>The Department for Work and Pensions does not hold this data.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 17/10/2017 09:40:10 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	1470 label Biography information for Ian C. Lucas

769768

registered interest
date	12/10/2017
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	Department for Work and Pensions: Telephone Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the total cost of calls to his Department's helplines has been by people in Wrexham constituency in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Wrexham
tabling member printed	Ian C. Lucas
uin	107326
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2017 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p>The Department for Work and Pensions does not hold this data.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 17/10/2017 09:47:57 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	1470 label Biography information for Ian C. Lucas

769769

registered interest
date	12/10/2017
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	Housing Benefit: Supported Housing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what plans he has to undertake an equalities impact assessment of the proposed cap on housing benefit for those in supported housing.
tabling member constituency	Great Grimsby
tabling member printed	Melanie Onn
uin	107328
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2017 answer text <p>The Department has undertaken an Equality Assessment on the proposal to cap housing benefit at the Local Housing Allowance rates for people in supported housing.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 17/10/2017 09:31:31 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4464 label Biography information for Melanie Onn