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      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/911178/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p>The 2016 Budget announced funding for a number of programmes linked to the revenue from the Soft Drinks Industry Levy. The Department of Education (DfE) will receive £575 million during the current spending review period.<\/p><p> <\/p><p>The funding has been allocated to a number of programmes to support pupil health and wellbeing. In financial year 2019-20 £160 million and has been allocated to the primary physical education and school sport premium (totalling £320 million with funding from DfE and the Department of Health and Social Care) and £14 million for breakfast clubs.<\/p>"}
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      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/904822/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p>Following the meeting I had with my hon. Friend the Member for Morecambe and Lunesdale and his constituents about early intervention and resourcing, my officials subsequently spoke to Lancashire County Council\u2019s Director of Children\u2019s Services to relay the matters discussed. I understand the Director of Children\u2019s Services has followed up with my hon. Friend the Member for Morecambe and Lunesdale\u2019s constituent.<\/p><p> <\/p><p>Funding for children\u2019s services is an un-ring-fenced part of the wider local government finance settlement, to give local authorities the flexibility to focus on locally determined priorities and, of course, their statutory responsibilities, including children\u2019s social care. Over the five year period from 2015-16 to 2019-20 councils will have access to more than £200 billion to deliver the local services their communities want to see, including children\u2019s services. In February, Parliament confirmed the 2018-19 settlement for local government, providing a real terms increase in resources available to local government - £44.3 billion in 2017-18 to £45.1 billion in 2018-19.<\/p>"}
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      ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent discussions his Department has had with the Lancashire Director of Children's Services on early intervention, resourcing and identified or non-funding pressures.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/904825/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p>Working with Trussell Trust we undertook a 12 week telephony hotline trial during the summer 2017, in three Districts (Durham and Tees Valley, Northumberland and Cambridgeshire), to assess the volume and nature of enquiries made by claimants from their linked food banks.<\/p><p> <\/p><p>The small number of calls made to the hotline seemed to indicate that demand for Jobcentre resource in food banks was low. However, it was agreed that we would remind colleagues of the signposting process, and District Partnership teams would continue to engage with food banks as part of their portfolio of local partners and stakeholders.<\/p><p> <\/p><p>Jobcentres continue to engage with food banks or organisations hosting food banks as part of their normal partnership work. To ensure a consistent offer, an assurance was received in February 2018 that each Jobcentre Single Point of Contact had made contact with their linked food banks to increase and maintain partnership working.<\/p>"}
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      ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what progress her Department has made on rolling out a  programme of placing an officer of her Department into local food banks to assist with benefits (a) access and (b) problems as first piloted in Morecambe.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
      , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4135", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for David Morris"}
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    , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/904833", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Department for Education"}
      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/904833/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p>The information requested is not held centrally. Safeguarding concerns are a matter for local determination and would not be routinely reported to government.<\/p>"}
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      ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what reports of concern have been submitted to the Lancashire Children's Safeguarding Board on (a) Morecambe Bay Primary School and (b) West End Primary School in the last three years; and if he will make a statement.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
      , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4135", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for David Morris"}
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      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/904839/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p>The information requested is not held centrally.<\/p>"}
        , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4113", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi"}
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        , "answeringMemberPrinted" : {"_value" : "Nadhim Zahawi"}
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      ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what information his Department holds on the reasons why Morecambe Bay Primary School failed to meet the threshold to retain the support of a social worker team to reduce the number of children on child protection plans to zero.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
      , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4135", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for David Morris"}
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      , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "David Morris"}
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      ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether his Department has received any reports of rickets in the Carnforth area in the last five years.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
      , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4135", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for David Morris"}
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      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/800621/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p>The Department has no information as to what the local council propose to do with this closed school site. Should the local council wish to use the site for non educational purposes there is legislation in place to protect against the disposal of school land used for education. The local council are required to seek the consent of the Secretary of State before disposing or changing the use of school land.<\/p><p> <\/p><p>Schedule 1 to the Academies Act 2010 requires consent where any school land has been used by a maintained school within the last eight years and Section 77 of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998 requires consent to be obtained for school playing field land used by (or for) a maintained school within the last 10 years.<\/p><p> <\/p><p>We have not received any application from Lancashire County Council seeking consent to dispose of the former Skerton High School site. Further information about the protection of school land can be found at: <a href=\"https://www.gov.uk/guidance/school-land-and-property-protection-transfer-and-disposal\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/school-land-and-property-protection-transfer-and-disposal<\/a>.<\/p>"}
        , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/111", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Nick Gibb"}
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      ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that the former Skerton High School site is used for educational purposes.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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