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1002721

registered interest
date	06/11/2018
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, what estimate his Department has made of the proportion of children in each local authority that are in the lowest 20 percent for attainment nationally in the Early Years Foundation Stage in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
uin	188833
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/11/2018 answer text <p>The requested data can be found within the attached file.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 12/11/2018 15:27:40 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi attachment 1 file name 188833 Lowest_performing_children_by_local_authority.xlsx title Lowest_performing_children_by_local_authority
tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell

982926

registered interest
date	08/10/2018
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, what the average amount of time taken is for Ofsted to respond to applications to open new pre-schools.
tabling member constituency	West Lancashire
tabling member printed	Rosie Cooper
uin	176119
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/10/2018 answer text <p>This is a matter for Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector, Amanda Spielman. I have asked her to write to the hon. Member and a copy of her reply will be placed in the libraries of both Houses.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 11/10/2018 16:47:41 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	1538 label Biography information for Rosie Cooper

947425

registered interest
date	24/07/2018
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, what assessment he has made of the role of maintained nursery schools in improving educational attainment among children from families living in poverty.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Northfield
tabling member printed	Richard Burden
uin	167860
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/09/2018 answer text <p>In recognition of the costs that maintained nursery schools (MNS) experience over and above other providers, we are providing supplementary funding of approximately £60 million per year to MNS.</p><p>This is additional to funding received under the Early Years National Funding Formula (EYNFF). This funding has been provided to enable local authorities to protect the pre-EYNFF funding levels available to MNS until the period 2019 to 2020.</p><p>Individual authorities’ allocations of the supplementary funding given to MNS for the period 2018 to 2019 can be found at the following link: <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>MNS make a valuable contribution to improving the lives of some of our most disadvantaged children. We have commissioned new research on the value offered by MNS, which will be published in the autumn.</p><p>Ministers continue to meet a wide variety of early years and MNS sector representatives on a wide variety of topics, including MNS funding.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 167859 167861 question first answered 04/09/2018 11:34:37 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	301 label Biography information for Richard Burden

944832

registered interest
date	19/07/2018
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, what proportion of children (a) with special education needs, (b) in care and (c) on a child protection plan attended (i) maintained nursery schools, (ii) nursery classes and (iii) private, voluntary and independent early years provision in each of the last four years.
tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
uin	166188
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/07/2018 answer text <p>The department holds some of the requested information. However, figures for the number of children in care or for the number of children on a child protection plan by type of early years provision are not available for children below compulsory school age.</p><p>The number and proportion of children with special education needs attending maintained nursery schools, nursery classes and private, voluntary and independent providers in each of the last three years are shown in the attached table. Data for 2015 is not readily available and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p><p>More general information on children in care or on a child protection plan, as well as provision for children under five is available in the associated statistical releases below.</p><p>‘Children looked after in England including adoption: 2016 to 2017’, which was published on 27 September 2017. This can be viewed here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/children-looked-after-in-england-including-adoption-2016-to-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/children-looked-after-in-england-including-adoption-2016-to-2017</a>.</p><p>‘Characteristics of children in need: 2016 to 2017’, which was published on 2 November 2017. This can be viewed here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/characteristics-of-children-in-need-2016-to-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/characteristics-of-children-in-need-2016-to-2017</a>.</p><p>‘Education provision: children under 5 years of age, January 2018’, which was published on 28 June 2018. This can be viewed 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> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 27/07/2018 12:17:26 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi attachment 1 file name Table_for_PQ_166188_showing_early_years_provision_for_children_with_SEN.xls title Table_for_PQ_166188_showing_early_years_provision
tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell

938688

registered interest
date	11/07/2018
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, how many maintained nursery schools there are in (a) London and (b) England.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
uin	163165
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2018 answer text <p>These figures are published in the local authority tables of the annual statistical release ‘Schools, pupils and their characteristics’. This is available at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-school-and-pupil-numbers" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-school-and-pupil-numbers</a> for 2010 onwards. For 2000, please consult the national archives website at the following link: <a href="http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20130321033119/http:/www.education.gov.uk/researchandstatistics/statistics/allstatistics/a00193434/schools-in-england-2000" target="_blank">http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20130321033119/http://www.education.gov.uk/researchandstatistics/statistics/allstatistics/a00193434/schools-in-england-2000</a>.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 163166 question first answered 20/07/2018 13:17:25 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft

938689

registered interest
date	11/07/2018
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, how many maintained nursery schools there were in (a) London and (b) England in (i) 2000, (ii) 2010 and (iii) 2017.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
uin	163166
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2018 answer text <p>These figures are published in the local authority tables of the annual statistical release ‘Schools, pupils and their characteristics’. This is available at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-school-and-pupil-numbers" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-school-and-pupil-numbers</a> for 2010 onwards. For 2000, please consult the national archives website at the following link: <a href="http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20130321033119/http:/www.education.gov.uk/researchandstatistics/statistics/allstatistics/a00193434/schools-in-england-2000" target="_blank">http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20130321033119/http://www.education.gov.uk/researchandstatistics/statistics/allstatistics/a00193434/schools-in-england-2000</a>.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 163165 question first answered 20/07/2018 13:17:25 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft

904652

registered interest
date	15/05/2018
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, what the timetable is for the publication of the next statistical set on early years provision for children under five years in the local-authority-maintained, private, voluntary and independent sectors in England.
tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
uin	144291
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2018 answer text <p>The ‘Provision for children under five years of age in England - January 2018’ statistical publication will be released within the next three months.</p><p> </p><p>In line with the National Statistics code of practice, the specific release date will be announced at least four weeks in advance of publication at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/announcements?utf8=%E2%9C%93&amp;organisations%5B%5D=department-for-education" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/announcements?utf8=%E2%9C%93&amp;organisations%5B%5D=department-for-education</a>.</p><p> </p><p><strong><br> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 21/05/2018 16:13:43 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell

890538

registered interest
date	24/04/2018
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, how many and what proportion of eligible two year old children receive 15 hours of free early years education each week.
tabling member constituency	Batley and Spen
tabling member printed	Tracy Brabin
uin	137633
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2018 answer text <p>This is publically available at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/education-provision-children-under-5-years-of-age-january-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/education-provision-children-under-5-years-of-age-january-2017</a>.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 27/04/2018 13:47:14 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4588 label Biography information for Tracy Brabin

882415

registered interest
date	13/04/2018
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 Unlocking Talent, Fulfilling Potential, what estimate he has made of the potential effect that increasing the number of early years practitioners in private, voluntary and independent nurseries will have on closing the early word gap.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle
tabling member printed	Emma Hardy
uin	135477
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/04/2018 answer text <p>In our ‘Unlocking Talent, Fulfilling Potential’ publication we set out our ambition to close the word gap in early years between disadvantaged children and their peers. This included actions to improve the quality of early years provision but did not include a commitment to increase early years practitioner numbers.</p><p> </p><p>The regulatory standards for registered providers caring for children from birth to five are set out in the Early Years Foundation Stage Statutory Framework, including the staff: child ratios and qualification levels for staff. It is a matter for private, voluntary and independent nurseries, as the employers of early year practitioners, to decide the staffing levels they wish to employ within the statutory guidelines.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 23/04/2018 16:56:20 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4645 label Biography information for Emma Hardy

864357

registered interest
date	15/03/2018
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, how much funding has been (a) made available and (b) to which organisations to support early years settings on (i) SEND, (ii) speech and language development and (iii) effective business management; and how many early years staff have taken part in continuing professional development in each of those areas since grants were made available.
tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
uin	132841
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2018 answer text <p>From January 2017 to March 2018 we awarded grant funding to the following organisations.</p><p> </p><p>On special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), we allocated £316,500 to NASEN to produce an online training package, tailored to meet the needs of a broad range of settings. We also awarded £275,030 to Pen Green to promote the model of specialist nursery schools to work directly with local early years settings in the private, voluntary and independent sector.</p><p> </p><p>On speech and language development, Home Start UK was allocated a grant of £403,880 to pilot the ‘word pedometer’ developed by the US based LENA research foundation to provide disadvantaged families with coaching from trained home visiting volunteers to increase the quantity and quality of language interaction with babies and children under the age of three.</p><p> </p><p>The Institute of Wellbeing was allocated a grant of £450,000 with a focus on raising awareness on the benefits of early education, home learning environment and 2YO programme. Activities include a targeted outreach for black and minority ethnic families unlikely to access statutory services, online-accredited CPD practitioner training to 'improve equality and inclusive practice and development of culturally tailored eLearning home learning environment parenting programme ‘Giving your child the right start’ to support speech, language and development.</p><p> </p><p>A consortium of four organisations led by the National Literacy Trust was allocated a grant of £429,998. This grant funding breaks down as follows:</p><p> </p><p>National Literacy Trust was allocated £153,330 to support disadvantaged children and families eligible for the two-year-old programme and strengthen the home learning environment with a programme called Early Words Together at Two.</p><p> </p><p>National Children’s Bureau was allocated £138,332 to support disadvantaged families to develop a positive home learning environment and to develop young children’s literacy skills using an adapted model of REAL (Raising Early Achievement in Literacy).</p><p> </p><p>Peeple and Foundation Years Trust were allocated a total of £138,366 to support disadvantaged children to engage parents in their children’s learning in the home and add value to the two-year old programme using the Peep Learning Together programme.</p><p> </p><p>On effective business management, we allocated £268,544 to National Day Nurseries Association to develop a dedicated online resource to support nurseries to operate sustainably.</p><p> </p><p>We allocated £398,909 to Action for Children to continue their work on creating Childminder Agencies, and £385,975 to PACEY to support childminders to expand their businesses to provide sufficient, financially viable, high quality free early years education places for disadvantaged two-year-olds; and three and four-year-olds.</p><p> </p><p>We are unable to confirm the total number of early years staff taking part in continuing professional development.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 23/03/2018 14:58:47 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell