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758976

	registered interest
	date	08/09/2017
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Pre-school Education
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to her oral contribution of 6 September 2017, Official Report, column 166, how she plans to ensure that nursery providers offer places to meet the working patterns of parents.
	tabling member constituency	Batley and Spen
	tabling member printed	Tracy Brabin
	uin	9699
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/09/2017 answer text <p>We are committed to ensuring that all families have access to high quality, flexible and affordable childcare that meets the needs of working parents and supports the best outcomes for children. Extending the hours over which funded provision can be delivered, from 7.00am to 7.00pm to 6.00am to 8.00pm, means that providers can offer the 30 hours entitlement more flexibly.</p><p>Our early delivery areas have developed and tested innovative, flexible childcare approaches to support working families. In the early implementation evaluation survey, over three-quarters (78%) of parents reported that they had greater flexibility in their working life as a result of the 30 hours entitlement. Case studies showed that increased work flexibility helped parents to obtain more secure employment, enhanced career opportunities and improved their work-life balance. These approaches have been shared widely with all providers and local authorities.</p><p>We have also published practical, hands-on guidance for providers who want to work in partnership to deliver the entitlement, so that individual providers that cannot meet parents’ needs on their own can work effectively with others in order to do so.</p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 13/09/2017 15:45:12 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
	tabling member	4588 label Biography information for Tracy Brabin

758975

	registered interest
	date	08/09/2017
	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 30 hours of free childcare eligibility codes were generated before the 31 August 2017 deadline in each (a) region of England and (b) constituent part of the UK.
	tabling member constituency	Batley and Spen
	tabling member printed	Tracy Brabin
	uin	9642
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/09/2017 answer text <p>The national rollout of 30 hours free childcare marks the delivery of a manifesto commitment that will help hundreds of thousands of hard working families. The childcare service online application has been working well for the vast majority of parents and over 216,384 valid 30 hours codes have been generated by successful applications, reaching our target for 1st September.</p><p>It is the responsibility of local authorities to assess supply and demand of free entitlement places at a local level.</p><p>The 30 hours scheme is an England only arrangement.</p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 13/09/2017 15:42:23 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
	tabling member	4588 label Biography information for Tracy Brabin

757601

	registered interest
	date	05/09/2017
	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 assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies on the level of funding for childcare providers of survey data from the Pre-School Learning Alliance, published in August 2017, on the proportion of childcare facilities which will potentially become financially unsustainable by August 2018.
	tabling member constituency	Batley and Spen
	tabling member printed	Tracy Brabin
	uin	8704
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2017 answer text <p>The Government will be investing £1 billion extra every year in the early years entitlements, including over £300 million a year to increase our hourly funding rates. This increased level of funding is based on our comprehensive “Review of Childcare Costs” which looked at both the current costs of childcare provision and the implications of future cost pressures including the National Living Wage. The Review was described as “thorough and wide ranging” by the National Audit Office.</p><p> </p><p>Under our new early years national funding formula, we are allocating funding fairly and transparently, so that early years providers can deliver free childcare on a sustainable and high-quality basis in all areas of England. We have also legislated to ensure that local authorities pass on at least 93% of their Government funding to early years providers. Providers in the vast majority of local authorities will have seen funding increases this year and we are also providing guidance, tools and support for providers to help make their businesses more sustainable and efficient.</p><p> </p><p>Our recently published independent evaluation of the early rollout of 30 hours childcare programme shows that over 80% of providers were willing and able to offer the extended hours. The report is available at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/early-rollout-of-30-hours-free-childcare-evaluation" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/early-rollout-of-30-hours-free-childcare-evaluation</a>.</p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 11/09/2017 06:29:09 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
	tabling member	4588 label Biography information for Tracy Brabin

757603

	registered interest
	date	05/09/2017
	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 eligibility codes for 30 hours of free childcare have not been validated after parents have received them.
	tabling member constituency	Batley and Spen
	tabling member printed	Tracy Brabin
	uin	8691
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2017 answer text <p>We would not expect all of the 30 hours codes generated by the childcare service to be validated.[1]</p><p> </p><p>The system generates codes for younger children who will become eligible in the spring term. This is to give parents ample time to reserve their childcare place. These parents may not yet have taken their code to their provider to be validated.</p><p> </p><p>The system also generates codes for 4- and 5-year old children, as some parents may wish to defer entry to school and use a 30 hours code in a private, voluntary or independent provider. However, the vast majority of 4- and 5-year-old children will be in state-funded reception places and will not need to use the 30 hours code.</p><p> </p><p>We would expect the number of codes validated to continue to increase as term-time providers have reopened after the summer.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>[1] The childcare service is a joint application system for Tax-Free Childcare and 30 hours free childcare. 30 hours codes are generated for all successful applications for children within the following age range: 2 years and 36 weeks to 5 years and 22 weeks.</p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 11/09/2017 13:21:14 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
	tabling member	4588 label Biography information for Tracy Brabin

756847

	registered interest
	date	04/09/2017
	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 eligibility codes for 30 hours of free childcare have been validated by providers and local authorities.
	tabling member constituency	Batley and Spen
	tabling member printed	Tracy Brabin
	uin	8167
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2017 answer text <p>The national rollout of 30 hours free childcare marks the delivery of a manifesto commitment that will help hundreds of thousands of hard working families. Over 200,000 valid 30 hours codes have been generated, reaching our target for 1<sup>st</sup> September.</p><p>As of 6<sup>th</sup> September, 152,829 eligibility codes for 30 hours free childcare have been validated. These are eligibility codes that were issued by 31<sup>st</sup> August and validated by 5<sup>th</sup> September for children aged three by 31<sup>st</sup> August 2017.</p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 07/09/2017 16:03:52 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
	tabling member	4588 label Biography information for Tracy Brabin

720411

	registered interest
	date	13/04/2017
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Department for Education: Secondment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many staff are seconded to her Department; and how many such staff are seconded from which companies and organisations.
	tabling member constituency	Batley and Spen
	tabling member printed	Tracy Brabin
	uin	70946
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2017 answer text <p>The Department has no central record of staff seconded to it from other organisations or companies. Therefore, it is not possible to verify how many or from which organisations staff may have been seconded. This is because secondments are agreed by individual managers and may not always be notified to the central Human Resources team.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 25/04/2017 15:47:02 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4588 label Biography information for Tracy Brabin

720404

	registered interest
	date	13/04/2017
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Schools: Admissions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many school places have been available in (a) Batley and Spen constituency, (b) Kirklees and (c) England in each of the last seven years.
	tabling member constituency	Batley and Spen
	tabling member printed	Tracy Brabin
	uin	70917
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2017 answer text <p>Local authorities are responsible for ensuring there are sufficient school places for pupils. The Department collects pupil number forecasts and school capacity data from each local authority through the annual school capacity survey (SCAP). This data is used to allocate capital funding to local authorities to help them provide sufficient school places where they are needed. The Department’s Pupil Place Planning team then work with the Local Authorities to determine those places that are in fact being created.</p><p> </p><p>The capacity and forecasts data are published on an annual basis, giving local authority and regional totals, through the SCAP tables which can be found at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-school-capacity" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-school-capacity</a>. School capacity and forecast data is not available at constituency level.</p><p> </p><p>The following table provides the requested information on available school places (school capacity) in Kirklees and England in each year from 2009/10 to 2015/16.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Table 1: School capacity in state funded primary and secondary schools</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>2009/10</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2010/11</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2011/12</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2012/13</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2013/14</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2014/15</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2015/16</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>England</p></td><td><p>7,790,645</p></td><td><p>7,862,272</p></td><td><p>7,914,563</p></td><td><p>8,053,509</p></td><td><p>8,239,830</p></td><td><p>8,389,479</p></td><td><p>8,525,736</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Kirklees</p></td><td><p>65,493</p></td><td><p>65,739</p></td><td><p>66,575</p></td><td><p>66,849</p></td><td><p>67,567</p></td><td><p>67,996</p></td><td><p>68,506</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>School capacities are as reported by local authorities for all school types, based on their knowledge of each school.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 24/04/2017 14:56:57 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	4588 label Biography information for Tracy Brabin

720406

	registered interest
	date	13/04/2017
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Building Schools for the Future Programme
	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 effect of the decision to end the Building Schools for the Future programme on the number of available school places.
	tabling member constituency	Batley and Spen
	tabling member printed	Tracy Brabin
	uin	70916
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/04/2017 answer text <p>Building Schools for the Future was cancelled in July 2010. Rather than providing new school places, the programme’s main aim was to rebuild or refurbish all secondary and special schools in England by 2020.</p><p>Supporting local authorities to create sufficient school places is one of the Government’s top priorities and we fund all school places needed based on local authorities’ own forecasts. We are spending £7 billion to create new school places between 2015 and 2021, which, along with our investment in the free schools programme, we expect to provide 600,000 new places, including 270,000 in free schools. The latest data shows that nearly 735,000 additional pupil places were created between May 2010 and May 2016 with many more delivered since then and in the pipeline.</p><p>On top of this, our current school rebuilding programme, the Priority School Building Programme, is meeting the condition need at 537 schools across the country. It has reduced timescales to start building works by up to two years and is delivering projects for a third cheaper than Building Schools for the Future.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 26/04/2017 15:53:43 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	4588 label Biography information for Tracy Brabin

720407

	registered interest
	date	13/04/2017
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Schools: West Yorkshire
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent discussions she has had with headteachers in (a) Batley and Spen constituency and (b) Kirklees on (i) school funding and (ii) the effect of the new school funding formula on schools in those areas.
	tabling member constituency	Batley and Spen
	tabling member printed	Tracy Brabin
	uin	70912
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/04/2017 answer text <p>We are committed to introducing a national funding formula for schools that will calculate schools’ funding allocations consistently and transparently, using an up to date assessment of need. We believe this represents a fairer way of funding schools.</p><p> </p><p>We have consulted on our proposals and we are grateful to those who have taken the time to highlight their views as part of this process. We received over 25,000 responses to the consultation, which we are reviewing in detail.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 26/04/2017 15:33:53 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	4588 label Biography information for Tracy Brabin

715041

	registered interest
	date	29/03/2017
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Special Educational Needs: Specific Learning Difficulties
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what guidance her Department has issued to teachers and support staff who work with children with specific learning difficulties to support those children with their menstrual health.
	tabling member constituency	Batley and Spen
	tabling member printed	Tracy Brabin
	uin	69750
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/04/2017 answer text <p>The Department does not issue guidance to schools on menstrual health specifically for pupils with learning difficulties. However, menstruation does feature in guidance on Sex and Relationships Education (SRE), and is covered in the science curriculum at key stage three. All maintained schools must follow the national curriculum and other schools can use it as a benchmark. We encourage schools to consider carefully how to support all their pupils to be safe, healthy and ready to learn each day.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Edward Timpson question first answered 21/04/2017 13:38:59 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
	tabling member	4588 label Biography information for Tracy Brabin