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851598

	registered interest
	date	28/02/2018
	answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept id	201
	answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	hansard heading	Intellectual Property
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment his Department has made of the effect of the UK leaving the EU on the British intellectual property sector and the businesses that rely upon that sector.
	tabling member constituency	Bath
	tabling member printed	Wera Hobhouse
	uin	130361
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/03/2018 answer text <p>The UK has one of the best IP regimes in the world, and leaving the EU will not change that: we will continue to deliver quality rights granting services, lead the world in enforcement and engage in international IP discussions. The Government is considering options to ensure that the UK’s intellectual property regime will continue to support business and innovation in the future.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 05/03/2018 14:35:04 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
	tabling member	4602 label Biography information for Wera Hobhouse

1552075

	registered interest
	date	15/12/2022
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Pre-school Education: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment her Department has made of the adequacy of funding provision for early years settings.
	tabling member constituency	Bath
	tabling member printed	Wera Hobhouse
	uin	111666
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2022 answer text <p>In the 2021 Spending Review the department announced additional funding for early years of £160 million in 2022/23, £180 million in 2023/24 and £170 million in 2024/25, compared to the 2021/22 financial year.</p><p>The department has recently announced that we will invest an additional £20 million into early years funding in 2023/24, on top of the additional funding announced in the 2021 Spending Review. Taken together, this will help support providers at a national level with the additional National Living Wage costs associated with delivering the free childcare entitlements next year. The department will also be investing an additional £10 million into Maintained Nursery School supplementary funding from 2023/24.</p><p>In 2023/24, local authorities are set to receive average funding increases of 3.4% for the 3- and 4-year-old free childcare entitlements and 4% for the 2- year-old entitlement, compared to their 2022/23 rates.</p><p>The department has again increased the early years pupil premium, which for 2023/24 will provide up to £353 per eligible child per year to support better outcomes for disadvantaged 3- and 4-year- olds. The department has also increased the Disability Access Fund, which will be worth at least £828 per eligible child per year.</p><p>The department continues to engage with sector stakeholders and local authorities to monitor the sufficiency of childcare places and sustainability of the early years sector.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Claire Coutinho question first answered 21/12/2022 14:41:36 answering member 4806 label Biography information for Claire Coutinho
	tabling member	4602 label Biography information for Wera Hobhouse

1602371

	registered interest
	date	08/03/2023
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Babies: Health Services
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much Start for Life funding her Department budgeted for distribution to participating local authorities in the 2022-23 financial year; and how much and what proportion of that funding was received by those local authorities as of 31 January 2023.
	tabling member constituency	Bath
	tabling member printed	Wera Hobhouse
	uin	161376
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/03/2023 answer text <p>The department budgeted the following to spend on grants for the 75 local authorities on the Family Hubs Start for Life Programme in 2022/23:</p><ul><li>Family Hubs Transformation Fund Grant: £17,480,000 (Revenue and Capital)</li><li>Family Hubs Parenting Support Grant: £9,800,000</li><li>Home Learning Environment Grant: £12,900,000</li></ul><p>The remainder of the grants paid to local authorities for the Family Hubs Start for Life Programme in 2022-23 are grants from the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC). These grants cover perinatal mental health, including parent and infant relationships, infant feeding, parent and carer panels, Start for Life publishing, and workforce trials.</p><p>As of 31 January 2023, all local authorities had been paid their first of two grants for 2022/23. The Department have paid the following in grants to local authorities up to and including 31 January 2023:</p><ul><li>Family Hubs Transformation Fund Grant: £8,740,000(Revenue and Capital)</li><li>Family Hubs Parenting Support Grant: £4,873,851</li><li>Home Learning Environment Grant: £6,403,518</li></ul><p>Local authorities will receive their second and final grant payment for 2022/23 in March 2023, with the majority receiving this by 13 March 2023.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Claire Coutinho question first answered 17/03/2023 13:54:36 answering member 4806 label Biography information for Claire Coutinho
	tabling member	4602 label Biography information for Wera Hobhouse