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1123540

registered interest
date	29/04/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Special Educational Needs: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department is taking to ensure adequate funding in SEND provision in schools.
tabling member constituency	Slough
tabling member printed	Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
uin	248757
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/05/2019 answer text <p>Authorities are required to provide mainstream schools with sufficient funds to enable schools to meet the additional cost of pupils with special educational needs (SEN) and disabilities, up to £6,000. Top-up funding is then provided from local authorities high needs budgets. Nationally, high needs funding is £6.3 billion this year. We recognise that local authorities are facing cost pressures, which is why in December we allocated an additional £250 million across all local authorities up to 2020. Slough will receive £880,000 of this additional funding. This funding will help local authorities to manage their cost pressures. Funding for 2020-2021 and beyond will be determined in the Spending Review.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 02/05/2019 16:08:08 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4638 label Biography information for Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi

1123654

registered interest
date	29/04/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Free School Meals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much money was allocated from the public purse towards the provision of free school meals in (a) England, (b) Scotland, (c) Wales and (d) Northern Ireland in the most recent financial year for which data is available.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	248590
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/05/2019 answer text <p>For benefits-based free school meals (FSM) the department allocates around £440 per pupil per year currently eligible for and claiming FSM through the national funding formula to local authorities.</p><p>Local authorities then distribute this money to schools through their local funding formula, which is set in consultation with schools. For 2018-19, local authorities collectively allocated £505 million in respect of pupils currently eligible for FSM.</p><p>For the academic year 2017/2018 - the latest year in which data is available - the Department for Education spent £649 million delivering free meals for all infant children in reception, year 1 and year 2 in state funded schools through the universal infant free school meals policy.</p><p>FSM are fully devolved so the department does not hold information on how much was spent in Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 02/05/2019 15:58:15 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

1123704

registered interest
date	29/04/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pre-school Education: School Meals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether he plans to provide meals for children accessing (a) free childcare and (b) pre-school provision.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	248685
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/05/2019 answer text <p>The government's early education funding is intended to deliver 15 or 30 hours a week (for 38 weeks of the year) of free, high quality, flexible childcare for eligible 2, 3 and 4-year-olds. It is not intended to cover the costs of meals, other consumables, additional hours or additional services.</p><p> </p><p>However, pupils attending a local authority maintained, academy or free school nursery are entitled to free school meals: as long as they are either in full-time education or receive education both before and after lunch and meet the benefits-based free school meal eligibility criteria. Pupils attending a private nursery or pre-school are not entitled to free school meals.</p><p> </p><p>The government also provides help with up to 70% of childcare costs for people on low incomes through working tax credits, which in April 2016 increased to 85% through Universal Credit.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 02/05/2019 16:05:45 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

1123247

registered interest
date	25/04/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Water Supply
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what regulations are in place to ensure that schools provide fresh water for their pupils; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
uin	247540
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/04/2019 answer text <p>The supply of drinking water in schools is required by regulation 9(1) of the School Premises (England) Regulations 2012. Drinking water must be provided free of charge at all times to registered pupils on the school premises.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 30/04/2019 12:49:52 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

1122620

registered interest
date	24/04/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Special Educational Needs: Visual Impairment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he plans to take to ensure that the increase in funding for special needs provision meets the needs of the visually impaired.
tabling member constituency	Twickenham
tabling member printed	Sir Vince Cable
uin	246913
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2019 answer text <p>The Children and Families Act (2014) requires local authorities to work with parents, young people, and providers to keep the provision for children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities under review, including its sufficiency.</p><p>We do not prescribe in detail how local authorities should allocate their high needs funding. In consultation with schools and other services, local authorities should consider carefully how best to meet the needs of children and young people in their area, including those with vision impairment.</p><p>To support local authorities, in December 2018 we announced an additional £250 million high needs funding up to 2020, on top of the funding increases we had already committed. This brings the total allocated for high needs in 2019-2020 to £6.3 billion and will help local authorities to manage the significant pressures on their high needs budgets.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 29/04/2019 16:03:23 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	207 label Biography information for Sir Vince Cable

1122636

registered interest
date	24/04/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Adoption Support Fund
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans his Department has for the future of the Adoption Support Fund after March 2020.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	247118
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/04/2019 answer text <p>Funding for the Adoption Support Fund beyond March 2020 is subject to the Spending Review process taking place later this year.</p><p>Until the review has been concluded, the government is unable to provide information on the future of the Adoption Support Fund.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 247119 247120 question first answered 30/04/2019 16:57:16 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1122637

registered interest
date	24/04/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Adoption Support Fund
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when he plans to announce proposals for the future of the Adoption Support Fund.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	247119
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/04/2019 answer text <p>Funding for the Adoption Support Fund beyond March 2020 is subject to the Spending Review process taking place later this year.</p><p>Until the review has been concluded, the government is unable to provide information on the future of the Adoption Support Fund.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 247118 247120 question first answered 30/04/2019 16:57:16 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1122638

registered interest
date	24/04/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Adoption
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what therapeutic support provision will be provided to adoptive families after July 2020.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	247120
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/04/2019 answer text <p>Funding for the Adoption Support Fund beyond March 2020 is subject to the Spending Review process taking place later this year.</p><p>Until the review has been concluded, the government is unable to provide information on the future of the Adoption Support Fund.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 247118 247119 question first answered 30/04/2019 16:57:16 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1122678

registered interest
date	24/04/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: North East
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will publish the number of schools (a) offered support under Opportunity North East’s ONE Vision programme and (b) that have indicated they will accept that support.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne North
tabling member printed	Catherine McKinnell
uin	247053
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/05/2019 answer text <p>We will publish both the number of schools that were made an offer of support, the number that accepted the support, and the methodology used to determine eligibility for the Opportunity North East’s ONE Vision Schools programme in due course.</p><p>The ONE Vision programme aims to improve outcomes for young people at key stages 4 and 5 in 30 secondary phase schools. We selected Ofsted Requires Improvement (RI) as the single indicator to identify the long list of secondary phase schools in scope to become a ONE Vision school and, by exception<strong>, </strong>Ofsted Inadequate schools. We then shortlisted schools using a comprehensive review of their performance data, pupil demographics, Ofsted history and intelligence from local authorities and trusts on which schools were priorities for support. We made an initial offer of support to 32 schools, of which 30 accepted.</p><p>The support that each ONE Vision school receives will be bespoke to their individual circumstances. It will be determined by an analysis of need comprising an External Review of Governance, undertaken by a National Leader of Governance; a Financial Health Check, undertaken by a School Resource Management Adviser; and a School Development Review, undertaken by a National Leader of Education or other high performing school leader. This analysis will identify the schools’ main priorities for improvement.</p><p>The following table shows the number of pupils in 2017/18 (a) attending all state-funded mainstream schools in the North East who are in the region’s lowest quintile of Attainment 8 scores, and (b) attending ONE Vision Schools who are within the region’s lowest quintile of Attainment 8 scores.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Number of pupils in North East in lowest quintile[1] of Attainment 8 scores (state-funded mainstream schools[2])</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of pupils in North East in One Vision schools in lowest quintile<sup>1</sup> of Attainment 8 scores (state-funded mainstream schools<sup>2</sup>)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>4,836</p></td><td><p>1,169</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The following table shows the number of pupils in 2017/18 (a) attending all state-funded schools in the North East who are within the region’s lowest quintile of capped GCSE point scores, based on their best eight entries, and (b) attending ONE Vision Schools who are within the region’s lowest quintile of capped GCSE point scores, based on their best eight entries.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Number of pupils in North East in lowest quintile<sup>1</sup> of best eight entries scores (all state-funded schools)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of pupils in North East in One Vision schools in lowest quintile<sup>1</sup> of best eight entries scores (all state-funded schools)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>4,879</p></td><td><p>1,135</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>It is a goal of the ONE Vision programme to build capacity in these 30 schools so that they are able to support other schools in the future. To ensure that the ONE Vision activity does not adversely affect schools that are not participating in the programme, we will continue to speak with local authorities and trusts as part of our monitoring activities to understand what impact ONE Vision is having on the wider community. We will also continue to monitor the performance of all schools across the region.</p><p> </p><p>[1] Quintiles are based on pupil ranking rather than school ranking. As more than one pupil can have the same attainment score, more than 20 percent of pupils can have scores in the lowest 20 percent.</p><p>[2] Region figures cover achievements in state-funded schools only. They do not include pupils recently arrived from overseas.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 247054 247055 247056 247057 247058 question first answered 02/05/2019 12:27:08 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4125 label Biography information for Catherine McKinnell

1122679

registered interest
date	24/04/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: North East
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Opportunity North East initiative, if he will publish the methodology used to determine eligibility for the ONE Vision Schools programme.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne North
tabling member printed	Catherine McKinnell
uin	247054
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/05/2019 answer text <p>We will publish both the number of schools that were made an offer of support, the number that accepted the support, and the methodology used to determine eligibility for the Opportunity North East’s ONE Vision Schools programme in due course.</p><p>The ONE Vision programme aims to improve outcomes for young people at key stages 4 and 5 in 30 secondary phase schools. We selected Ofsted Requires Improvement (RI) as the single indicator to identify the long list of secondary phase schools in scope to become a ONE Vision school and, by exception<strong>, </strong>Ofsted Inadequate schools. We then shortlisted schools using a comprehensive review of their performance data, pupil demographics, Ofsted history and intelligence from local authorities and trusts on which schools were priorities for support. We made an initial offer of support to 32 schools, of which 30 accepted.</p><p>The support that each ONE Vision school receives will be bespoke to their individual circumstances. It will be determined by an analysis of need comprising an External Review of Governance, undertaken by a National Leader of Governance; a Financial Health Check, undertaken by a School Resource Management Adviser; and a School Development Review, undertaken by a National Leader of Education or other high performing school leader. This analysis will identify the schools’ main priorities for improvement.</p><p>The following table shows the number of pupils in 2017/18 (a) attending all state-funded mainstream schools in the North East who are in the region’s lowest quintile of Attainment 8 scores, and (b) attending ONE Vision Schools who are within the region’s lowest quintile of Attainment 8 scores.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Number of pupils in North East in lowest quintile[1] of Attainment 8 scores (state-funded mainstream schools[2])</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of pupils in North East in One Vision schools in lowest quintile<sup>1</sup> of Attainment 8 scores (state-funded mainstream schools<sup>2</sup>)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>4,836</p></td><td><p>1,169</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The following table shows the number of pupils in 2017/18 (a) attending all state-funded schools in the North East who are within the region’s lowest quintile of capped GCSE point scores, based on their best eight entries, and (b) attending ONE Vision Schools who are within the region’s lowest quintile of capped GCSE point scores, based on their best eight entries.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Number of pupils in North East in lowest quintile<sup>1</sup> of best eight entries scores (all state-funded schools)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of pupils in North East in One Vision schools in lowest quintile<sup>1</sup> of best eight entries scores (all state-funded schools)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>4,879</p></td><td><p>1,135</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>It is a goal of the ONE Vision programme to build capacity in these 30 schools so that they are able to support other schools in the future. To ensure that the ONE Vision activity does not adversely affect schools that are not participating in the programme, we will continue to speak with local authorities and trusts as part of our monitoring activities to understand what impact ONE Vision is having on the wider community. We will also continue to monitor the performance of all schools across the region.</p><p> </p><p>[1] Quintiles are based on pupil ranking rather than school ranking. As more than one pupil can have the same attainment score, more than 20 percent of pupils can have scores in the lowest 20 percent.</p><p>[2] Region figures cover achievements in state-funded schools only. They do not include pupils recently arrived from overseas.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 247053 247055 247056 247057 247058 question first answered 02/05/2019 12:27:08 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4125 label Biography information for Catherine McKinnell