1 0 320 2019-06-17T13:44:19.937Z Guildford Anne Milton false 2019-06-17 Biography information for Anne Milton <p>We have a well-established working relationship with ScreenSkills and welcome their feedback on the impact of our apprenticeship reforms on the film and television industries. This, together with feedback from our broader engagement with employers, is informing our ongoing evaluation of the impact of the reforms in England and our work to promote apprenticeships under the Creative Industries Sector Deal.</p><p>In my capacity as the Minister of State for Apprenticeships and Skills, I met the CEO of ScreenSkills in October 2018 to discuss their work to support the take-up of apprenticeships in the UK’s world-leading film and television industries. Officials from the Education and Skills Funding Agency continue to meet representatives of the organisation.</p><p>Levy-paying employers can already transfer funds to an Apprenticeship Training Agency, which acts as the apprentice’s employer. We recognise that this model can provide a valuable opportunity for employers, including those in the film and television industries and the creative sector more generally, to realise the benefits of apprenticeships for their business. We are continuing to engage with ScreenSkills to explore how such arrangements could support the creative industries.</p><p>In response to feedback from employers in a range of sectors, we have recently raised the cap on the amount of funds that levy-payers can transfer from 10% to 25% of the annual value of funds entering their apprenticeship service accounts.</p> To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether he has made an assessment of proposals by ScreenSkills to reform the apprenticeship levy to (a) increase the number of paid apprenticeships in the film and TV industry and (b) enable apprenticeship training agencies to employ and pay the wages of apprentices and to arrange apprentice training with a number of different engagers on short-term projects; and if he will make a statement. Education Batley and Spen 2019-06-11 Tracy Brabin 60 Department for Education Education false House of Commons 1 Biography information for Tracy Brabin Apprentices: Taxation 263211 Tracy Brabin Batley and Spen 60 false 1 Education Free School Meals Education Department for Education 252120 2019-05-13T15:46:50.657Z Stratford-on-Avon Nadhim Zahawi false 2019-05-13 Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi <p>We do not know the number of children that will not benefit from the funding for free school meals (FSM) and activities during the 2019 summer holidays. This would depend on how many children in the funded areas choose to take up the offer of free holiday provision.</p><p>Our 2019 programme will take place in 11 local authority areas. It will enable us to test the effectiveness of a model of local coordination of free holiday club provision. We are carrying out an independent evaluation of this programme and will publish the results of this, including information on attendance.</p> 2019-05-08 To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of disadvantaged children will not benefit from the funding for free school meals and activities during the summer break announced on 8 May 2019. Department for Education false 1 To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many schools have applied to participate in the pilot test of reception baseline assessment in the Autumn term of 2019-20. 2019-04-30 Primary Education: Assessments Education Batley and Spen Tracy Brabin 60 249349 Education 2019-05-07T16:38:26.43Z Stratford-on-Avon Nadhim Zahawi false 2019-05-07 <p>The next stage in the reception baseline assessment development process is a large-scale voluntary pilot, commencing in September 2019. Schools were able to sign up to take part in the pilot from 1 March to 5 April 2019. We have received a very good response; we intend to publish the number of schools that have applied to participate in the pilot in the near future.</p><p> </p> 2019-04-29T15:35:28.983Z Guildford Anne Milton false 2019-04-29 <p>A publication date has not been set yet. The report is still being drafted and we will set a publication date once we have a final version of the report.</p> 1 Apprentices: Pay false Batley and Spen Tracy Brabin Education 246565 2019-04-23 Department for Education To ask the Secretary of State for Education, on what date the Government will publish the results of the Apprenticeship Pay Survey 2018. 60 Education Batley and Spen Tracy Brabin 2019-03-27 60 To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the total cost to the public purse was of providing 30 hours of free childcare for 3 and 4 year olds in the (a) autumn 2018 and b) spring 2019 terms. 1 false 237751 Department for Education Education Children: Day Care Education 2019-04-01T15:15:20.237Z Stratford-on-Avon Nadhim Zahawi false 2019-04-01 <p>The government funds local authorities to deliver the early years entitlements on a financial year basis. Allocations for each of the 3 and 4-year old entitlements are:</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2018-19 allocation (provisional)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Universal 15 hours entitlement for 3 and 4-year-olds</p></td><td><p>£2.29 billion</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Additional 15 hours entitlement for eligible working parents of 3 and 4-year-olds</p></td><td><p>£693 million</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Full details, including allocations for the other early years funding streams (15 hours entitlement for disadvantaged 2-year-old children, the early years pupil premium, disability access fund and maintained nursery schools supplementary funding) can be found here:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dedicated-schools-grant-dsg-2018-to-2019" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dedicated-schools-grant-dsg-2018-to-2019</a>.</p><p> </p><p>Final funding allocations for 2018-19 will be updated in the summer using data from the January 2019 schools and early years census.</p><p> </p><p> </p> Education To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what data his Department collects to monitor the effectiveness of money allocated from the public purse to early years early intervention strategies in (a) Kirklees and (b) Yorkshire. 1 Tracy Brabin Education 60 2019-03-26 Department for Education 237140 false false 237124 2019-04-01 237147 <p>The Public Health Outcomes Framework is a comprehensive source of data at local authority unitary, county and district level on the extent to which local strategies are successful and effective in improving outcomes for children in the early years. It is available at the following link: <a href="https://fingertips.phe.org.uk/profile/public-health-outcomes-framework" target="_blank">https://fingertips.phe.org.uk/profile/public-health-outcomes-framework</a>.</p><p>The framework includes data on outcomes for children aged 5 from the Early Years Foundation Stage Profile (EYFSP). Further information on the EYFSP is broken down by local authority and available to view at the following link: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/early-years-foundation-stage-profile-results-2017-to-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/early-years-foundation-stage-profile-results-2017-to-2018</a>. We do not publish this data at constituency or combined authority level.</p> 237168 237114 237163 2019-04-01T14:14:44.433Z Nadhim Zahawi Stratford-on-Avon Batley and Spen Children: Yorkshire and the Humber Education 2019-04-01T14:38:43.427Z Stratford-on-Avon Nadhim Zahawi false 2019-04-01 <p>In January 2018, 154,960 two year olds benefitted from funded early education, representing 72% of the eligible population. Local authority breakdowns are available in Tables 1A and 8LA of the ‘Education provision: children under 5 years of age, January 2018’ national statistics release, which is available here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/education-provision-children-under-5-years-of-age-january-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/education-provision-children-under-5-years-of-age-january-2018</a>.</p><p>The 2019 national statistics release, covering the position in January 2019, will be published in June 2019.</p> 237202 To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children are currently eligible for 15 hours of free childcare for disadvantaged two-year olds; and what proportion of eligible children are in receipt of that childcare. 1 Education Children: Day Care false 2019-03-26 Department for Education 237141 Tracy Brabin Batley and Spen 60 To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the average cost to the public purse is of providing 15 hours of free childcare for a disadvantaged two-year old. Education false 237142 Children: Day Care 2019-03-26 1 2019-04-01T14:04:37.33Z Stratford-on-Avon Nadhim Zahawi false 2019-04-01 <p>The average cost to the public purse of providing 15 hours, across 38 weeks, of free childcare for a disadvantaged two-year-old is around £3,080.</p> Department for Education 60 Tracy Brabin Education Batley and Spen Department for Education 237145 Education Children: Day Care 60 Tracy Brabin Education false Batley and Spen 1 2019-03-26 2019-04-01T15:22:31.173Z Stratford-on-Avon Nadhim Zahawi false 2019-04-01 <p>Eligibility for the 30 hours entitlement is based on parental income. It is available to families where both parents are working (or the sole parent is working in a lone parent family), and each parent earns the equivalent of a weekly minimum of 16 hours at national minimum wage or national living wage, and less than £100,000 per year. This also includes self-employed parents and parents on zero-hour contracts.</p><p>The government has made provisions to ensure that parents in certain circumstances will be regarded as being in work. This includes couple families where one parent is in receipt of benefits relating to caring responsibilities or their disability.</p><p>Full details on the eligibility criteria are set out in the regulations, which can be found here: <a href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/1257/contents/made" target="_blank">http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/1257/contents/made</a>.</p><p> </p> To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of disadvantaged children are eligible for 30 hours of free childcare. Education Tracy Brabin Education 1 2019-04-01T14:38:43.473Z Stratford-on-Avon Nadhim Zahawi false 2019-04-01 <p>In January 2018, 154,960 two year olds benefitted from funded early education, representing 72% of the eligible population. Local authority breakdowns are available in Tables 1A and 8LA of the ‘Education provision: children under 5 years of age, January 2018’ national statistics release, which is available here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/education-provision-children-under-5-years-of-age-january-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/education-provision-children-under-5-years-of-age-january-2018</a>.</p><p>The 2019 national statistics release, covering the position in January 2019, will be published in June 2019.</p> 237141 To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of eligible children are receiving 15 hours of free childcare for disadvantaged two-year olds in each local authority. 2019-03-26 Children: Day Care 60 237202 Batley and Spen false Department for Education 10