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1235656

registered interest
date	17/09/2020
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pre-school Education: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many covid-19 outbreaks have been reported in early years settings in each week since 1 June 2020.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	91681
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/09/2020 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 Chelmsford answering member printed Vicky Ford question first answered 22/09/2020 15:47:27 answering member 4674 label Biography information for Vicky Ford
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

1235657

registered interest
date	17/09/2020
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Care Homes
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many covid-19 outbreaks have been reported in children’s residential social care settings in each of the last six months.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	91682
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/09/2020 answer text <p>The department does not collect data on confirmed cases of COVID-19 outbreaks in children’s residential social care settings.</p><p>We have been working closely with local authorities and have announced more than £3.7 billion of un-ringfenced funding for local authorities to help them address pressures arising from COVID-19. That includes funding to support children’s social care settings to ensure they can continue to offer care for looked after children.</p><p>The government is committed to supporting the children’s social care workforce by ensuring that children’s homes, secure children’s homes and residential special schools have access to testing and free access to emergency personal protection equipment supplies for COVID-19 purposes, for use in line with department guidance.</p> answering member constituency Chelmsford answering member printed Vicky Ford question first answered 22/09/2020 13:38:18 answering member 4674 label Biography information for Vicky Ford
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

1235659

registered interest
date	17/09/2020
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Free School Meals: Immigrants
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when he plans to bring to an end the temporary extension of free school meals eligibility to certain no recourse to public funds groups.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	91684
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/09/2020 answer text <p>We are working with departments across government to evaluate access to free school meals for families with no recourse to public funds. In the meantime, the extension of eligibility will continue with the current income threshold until a decision on long-term eligibility is made.</p> answering member constituency Chelmsford answering member printed Vicky Ford question first answered 22/09/2020 13:37:13 answering member 4674 label Biography information for Vicky Ford
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

1235123

registered interest
date	16/09/2020
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, whether the additional funding allocated to primary and secondary aged pupils also applies to special and alternative provision providers.
tabling member constituency	North West Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Richard Holden
uin	91166
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/09/2020 answer text <p>Special and alternative provision providers are funded through the high needs block of the Dedicated Schools Grant. We will provide an additional £730 million of high needs funding next year, coming on top of the additional £780 million in 2020-21, which means high needs budgets will have grown by over £1.5 billion, or 24%, in just 2 years.</p><p>We have also announced an additional package worth £1 billion to ensure that schools have the resources they need to help all pupils make up for lost teaching time, with extra support for those who need it most. £650 million will be spent on ensuring all pupils have the chance to catch up and supporting schools to rise to the challenge. This funding will be paid as a one-off grant to all state-funded primary, secondary and special schools in the 2020-21 academic year. Mainstream schools will receive £80 per place, while each special, alternative provision and hospital school will receive £240 for each place, across the 2020-21 academic year. We have applied this additional weighting to specialist settings in recognition of the significantly higher per-pupil costs they face. Further information can be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/coronavirus-covid-19-catch-up-premium" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/coronavirus-covid-19-catch-up-premium</a>.</p> answering member constituency Chelmsford answering member printed Vicky Ford question first answered 21/09/2020 12:38:09 answering member 4674 label Biography information for Vicky Ford
tabling member	4813 label Biography information for Mr Richard Holden

1234481

registered interest
date	15/09/2020
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Free School Meals: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to his Department’s guidance entitled Providing school meals during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, updated on 10 September 2020, when his Department plans to publish further guidance and examples as set out under the heading: if food parcels are needed.
tabling member constituency	Vauxhall
tabling member printed	Florence Eshalomi
uin	90308
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/09/2020 answer text <p>We continue to work with stakeholders to provide advice and support to schools. Guidance has been prepared jointly by the Lead Association for Catering in Education (LACA), Public Health England and the Department for Education, setting out some general principles for putting together a food parcel, which will allow parents and carers to prepare simple and healthy lunches for their children at home across the week. This guidance is available on LACA’s website here:<br> <a href="https://laca.co.uk/laca-view/free-school-meals-guidance-producing-food-parcels" target="_blank">https://laca.co.uk/laca-view/free-school-meals-guidance-producing-food-parcels</a>.</p><p>A further updated version of our guidance will be published shortly and the current version is available here:<br> <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-free-school-meals-guidance/covid-19-free-school-meals-guidance-for-schools" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-free-school-meals-guidance/covid-19-free-school-meals-guidance-for-schools</a>.</p><p>Now schools and their kitchens are open, normal free school meal provision resumes, enabling children to have a nutritious healthy meal at school. Schools should provide meal options for all pupils who are in school and meals should be available free of charge to all infant pupils and all pupils who meet the benefits-related free school meals eligibility criteria. As set out in our guidance, schools are able to support pupils eligible for benefits-related free school meals who have to remain at home due to self-isolation with food parcels.</p><p>Approximately 88% of pupils on roll in state-funded schools were in attendance on 10 September. Attendance estimates include pupils absent for COVID-19 and non-COVID-19 related reasons. Further data on school attendance of free school meal eligible children will be published in due course.</p> answering member constituency Chelmsford answering member printed Vicky Ford grouped question UIN 90309 90310 90311 question first answered 21/09/2020 16:41:56 answering member 4674 label Biography information for Vicky Ford
tabling member	4870 label Biography information for Florence Eshalomi

1234483

registered interest
date	15/09/2020
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Free School Meals: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to his Department’s guidance entitled Providing school meals during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, updated on 10 September 2020, for what reason his Department has yet to provide the further guidance referred to under the heading: if food parcels are needed.
tabling member constituency	Vauxhall
tabling member printed	Florence Eshalomi
uin	90309
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/09/2020 answer text <p>We continue to work with stakeholders to provide advice and support to schools. Guidance has been prepared jointly by the Lead Association for Catering in Education (LACA), Public Health England and the Department for Education, setting out some general principles for putting together a food parcel, which will allow parents and carers to prepare simple and healthy lunches for their children at home across the week. This guidance is available on LACA’s website here:<br> <a href="https://laca.co.uk/laca-view/free-school-meals-guidance-producing-food-parcels" target="_blank">https://laca.co.uk/laca-view/free-school-meals-guidance-producing-food-parcels</a>.</p><p>A further updated version of our guidance will be published shortly and the current version is available here:<br> <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-free-school-meals-guidance/covid-19-free-school-meals-guidance-for-schools" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-free-school-meals-guidance/covid-19-free-school-meals-guidance-for-schools</a>.</p><p>Now schools and their kitchens are open, normal free school meal provision resumes, enabling children to have a nutritious healthy meal at school. Schools should provide meal options for all pupils who are in school and meals should be available free of charge to all infant pupils and all pupils who meet the benefits-related free school meals eligibility criteria. As set out in our guidance, schools are able to support pupils eligible for benefits-related free school meals who have to remain at home due to self-isolation with food parcels.</p><p>Approximately 88% of pupils on roll in state-funded schools were in attendance on 10 September. Attendance estimates include pupils absent for COVID-19 and non-COVID-19 related reasons. Further data on school attendance of free school meal eligible children will be published in due course.</p> answering member constituency Chelmsford answering member printed Vicky Ford grouped question UIN 90308 90310 90311 question first answered 21/09/2020 16:41:56 answering member 4674 label Biography information for Vicky Ford
tabling member	4870 label Biography information for Florence Eshalomi

1234484

registered interest
date	15/09/2020
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Free School Meals: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to his Department’s guidance entitled Providing school meals during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, updated on 10 September 2020, what discussions he has had with (a) Public Health England and (b) the Lead Association for Catering in Education on the provision of guidance which includes examples of recommended practice for children requiring free school meals in food parcels.
tabling member constituency	Vauxhall
tabling member printed	Florence Eshalomi
uin	90310
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/09/2020 answer text <p>We continue to work with stakeholders to provide advice and support to schools. Guidance has been prepared jointly by the Lead Association for Catering in Education (LACA), Public Health England and the Department for Education, setting out some general principles for putting together a food parcel, which will allow parents and carers to prepare simple and healthy lunches for their children at home across the week. This guidance is available on LACA’s website here:<br> <a href="https://laca.co.uk/laca-view/free-school-meals-guidance-producing-food-parcels" target="_blank">https://laca.co.uk/laca-view/free-school-meals-guidance-producing-food-parcels</a>.</p><p>A further updated version of our guidance will be published shortly and the current version is available here:<br> <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-free-school-meals-guidance/covid-19-free-school-meals-guidance-for-schools" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-free-school-meals-guidance/covid-19-free-school-meals-guidance-for-schools</a>.</p><p>Now schools and their kitchens are open, normal free school meal provision resumes, enabling children to have a nutritious healthy meal at school. Schools should provide meal options for all pupils who are in school and meals should be available free of charge to all infant pupils and all pupils who meet the benefits-related free school meals eligibility criteria. As set out in our guidance, schools are able to support pupils eligible for benefits-related free school meals who have to remain at home due to self-isolation with food parcels.</p><p>Approximately 88% of pupils on roll in state-funded schools were in attendance on 10 September. Attendance estimates include pupils absent for COVID-19 and non-COVID-19 related reasons. Further data on school attendance of free school meal eligible children will be published in due course.</p> answering member constituency Chelmsford answering member printed Vicky Ford grouped question UIN 90308 90309 90311 question first answered 21/09/2020 16:41:56 answering member 4674 label Biography information for Vicky Ford
tabling member	4870 label Biography information for Florence Eshalomi

1234486

registered interest
date	15/09/2020
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Free School Meals: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate he has made of the number of pupils eligible for free school meals who were unable to access those meals because they were (a) self-isolating and (b) under local lockdown arrangements in each of the last two weeks for which data is available.
tabling member constituency	Vauxhall
tabling member printed	Florence Eshalomi
uin	90311
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/09/2020 answer text <p>We continue to work with stakeholders to provide advice and support to schools. Guidance has been prepared jointly by the Lead Association for Catering in Education (LACA), Public Health England and the Department for Education, setting out some general principles for putting together a food parcel, which will allow parents and carers to prepare simple and healthy lunches for their children at home across the week. This guidance is available on LACA’s website here:<br> <a href="https://laca.co.uk/laca-view/free-school-meals-guidance-producing-food-parcels" target="_blank">https://laca.co.uk/laca-view/free-school-meals-guidance-producing-food-parcels</a>.</p><p>A further updated version of our guidance will be published shortly and the current version is available here:<br> <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-free-school-meals-guidance/covid-19-free-school-meals-guidance-for-schools" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-free-school-meals-guidance/covid-19-free-school-meals-guidance-for-schools</a>.</p><p>Now schools and their kitchens are open, normal free school meal provision resumes, enabling children to have a nutritious healthy meal at school. Schools should provide meal options for all pupils who are in school and meals should be available free of charge to all infant pupils and all pupils who meet the benefits-related free school meals eligibility criteria. As set out in our guidance, schools are able to support pupils eligible for benefits-related free school meals who have to remain at home due to self-isolation with food parcels.</p><p>Approximately 88% of pupils on roll in state-funded schools were in attendance on 10 September. Attendance estimates include pupils absent for COVID-19 and non-COVID-19 related reasons. Further data on school attendance of free school meal eligible children will be published in due course.</p> answering member constituency Chelmsford answering member printed Vicky Ford grouped question UIN 90308 90309 90310 question first answered 21/09/2020 16:41:56 answering member 4674 label Biography information for Vicky Ford
tabling member	4870 label Biography information for Florence Eshalomi

1234487

registered interest
date	15/09/2020
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, what proportion of pupils are eligible for free school meals in (a) Vauxhall constituency, (b) Greater London and (c) England.
tabling member constituency	Vauxhall
tabling member printed	Florence Eshalomi
uin	90312
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/09/2020 answer text <p>The department publishes the number of pupils who are eligible for free school meals in the Schools, pupils and their characteristics publication, available at:<br> <a href="https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-pupils-and-their-characteristics" target="_blank">https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-pupils-and-their-characteristics</a>.</p><p>The proportion of pupils eligible for free school meals in January 2020 was 34.5% in Vauxhall constituency compared with 18.8% in Greater London and 17.3% in England as a whole.</p> answering member constituency Chelmsford answering member printed Vicky Ford question first answered 21/09/2020 16:20:23 answering member 4674 label Biography information for Vicky Ford
tabling member	4870 label Biography information for Florence Eshalomi

1234660

registered interest
date	15/09/2020
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Extended Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many schools provided wrap around care in (a) 2019 and (b) 2020; and what funding is available for the provision of wrap around care.
tabling member constituency	Putney
tabling member printed	Fleur Anderson
uin	90283
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/09/2020 answer text <p>According to the Spring School Census captured the following data, there were 16,161 schools providing school childcare in January 2020. This includes before school, after school, under 5s and holiday childcare either provided on site or signposted to by the school. In 2019, there were 16,073 schools providing the same provisions.</p><p>From the start of the autumn term, all schools should work to resume their breakfast and after-school provision, where possible. We have provided guidance to support schools on full opening. The guidance is available at:<br><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/actions-for-schools-during-the-coronavirus-outbreak/guidance-for-full-opening-schools" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/actions-for-schools-during-the-coronavirus-outbreak/guidance-for-full-opening-schools</a>.</p><p>In addition, the department is investing up to £35 million into the National School Breakfast Programme from March 2018 to March 2021, using funds from Soft Drinks Industry Levy revenues. This includes an extension to the programme by a further year until March 2021 with up to an additional 650 schools being recruited and up to £11.8 million being invested. Overall, this money will kick-start or improve breakfast clubs in up to 2,450 schools in disadvantaged areas, making them sustainable in the long run. There are already more than 1,800 schools benefitting from the programme.</p><p>This summer also saw our £9 million Holiday Activities and Food Programme work, across 17 local authority areas, providing thousands of children with access to healthy meals and enriching activities and building on the success of the 2018 and 2019 programmes.</p><p>However, we also want to give parents the freedom, support and choice to look after their children in the way that works best for them. That is why from 2021 we will be investing £1 billion to help create more high-quality wraparound and holiday childcare places. We will announce further details on this significant new investment in due course.</p><p>The government has also sought to make financial support available to employers and businesses that have found themselves adversely impacted by the COVID-19 outbreak. Wraparound providers adversely affected by the COVID-19 outbreak can find out what financial support is available for their business at:<br><a href="https://www.gov.uk/business-coronavirus-support-finder" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/business-coronavirus-support-finder</a>.</p><p>They may be eligible for tax relief, loans or cash grants depending on their circumstances.</p> answering member constituency Chelmsford answering member printed Vicky Ford question first answered 21/09/2020 16:16:57 answering member 4674 label Biography information for Vicky Ford
tabling member	4788 label Biography information for Fleur Anderson