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837747

registered interest
date	06/02/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Governing Bodies
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether his Department has any plans to increase funding for the Inspiring Governance programme.
tabling member constituency	Nottingham North
tabling member printed	Alex Norris
uin	126778
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/02/2018 answer text <p>The department contracts with the charity Education and Employers Taskforce to deliver Inspiring Governance, a service to support recruitment in school governance by matching those who wish to be governors to school vacancies. The contract runs to the end of March 2020, and is worth £1 million per annum.</p><p> </p><p>There are no plans to increase funding to this programme.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 20/02/2018 14:46:00 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4641 label Biography information for Alex Norris

837910

registered interest
date	06/02/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children in Care: Social Workers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans there are for Social Work England to include residential child care social workers in its responsibilities for the registration of Social Workers.
tabling member constituency	South Shields
tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
uin	126940
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/02/2018 answer text <p>Social Work England will be responsible for registering all individuals who are qualified to practise as social workers in England. This will include social workers working in residential child care settings.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 20/02/2018 15:07:49 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

838022

registered interest
date	06/02/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Free Schools: Greater Manchester
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much pupil premium funding was allocated to (a) the Collective Spirit Free School in Oldham and (b) the Manchester Creative Studio in each year that those schools were in operation.
tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
uin	127051
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/02/2018 answer text <p>The Collective Spirit Free School in Oldham received £6,825 in the financial year 2013- 2014 following its foundation in September 2013.</p><p> </p><p>Information on how much pupil premium schools received in each financial year since 2014 to 2015 is available on GOV.UK at the links listed below:</p><p>Financial year 2014 to 2015</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/pupil-premium-2014-to-2015-final-allocations" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/pupil-premium-2014-to-2015-final-allocations</a>.</p><p>Financial year 2015 to 2016</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/pupil-premium-2015-to-2016-allocations" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/pupil-premium-2015-to-2016-allocations</a>.</p><p>Financial year 2016 to 2017</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/pupil-premium-conditions-of-grant-2016-to-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/pupil-premium-conditions-of-grant-2016-to-2017</a>.</p><p>Financial year 2017 to 2018</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/pupil-premium-conditions-of-grant-2017-to-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/pupil-premium-conditions-of-grant-2017-to-2018</a>.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 20/02/2018 15:06:52 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell

838028

registered interest
date	06/02/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Free Schools: Greater Manchester
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many times the Regional Schools Commissioner or her staff visited (a) Collective Spirit Free School in Oldham and (b) the Manchester Creative Studio in each year that those schools were in operation.
tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
uin	127057
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/02/2018 answer text <p>I refer the hon. member for Central Manchester to the answer I gave on 7 February 2018 to Question 126340: <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2018-02-02/126340/" target="_blank">http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2018-02-02/126340/</a>.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 14/02/2018 16:51:12 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell

838030

registered interest
date	06/02/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pre-school Education: Standards
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 children are in the lowest performing 20 per cent Early Years Foundation Stage profile in (a) the UK, (b) each region and (c) each local authority.
tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
uin	127059
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/02/2018 answer text <p>Information requested on children in the lowest-performing 20 per cent Early Years Foundation Stage Profile in England and each local authority can be found in the attached spreadsheet.</p><p> </p><p>The Department for Education does not hold information for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 20/02/2018 15:11:06 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi attachment 1 file name 127059 Attachment.xlsx title Children in the lowest-performing 20% Early Years
tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell

838036

registered interest
date	06/02/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Physical Education: Standards
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 improve the quality of PE lessons in schools.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	127065
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/02/2018 answer text <p>Through the primary PE and sport premium, the government has invested over £600 million of cross-government funding direct to primary schools to be spent on the improvement of PE and sport and to encourage the development of healthy, active lifestyles. The government has doubled the premium to £320 million a year from September 2017 using revenue from the Soft Drinks Industry Levy. Schools must use the funding to make additional and sustainable improvements to the quality of PE and sport that will benefit pupils joining the school in future years.</p><p> </p><p>An independent evaluation report into the primary PE and sport premium policy was published in December 2015. The report provides findings from a two year research project into how schools used the premium and the impact of the funding. The report can be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/pe-and-sport-premium-an-investigation-in-primary-schools" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/pe-and-sport-premium-an-investigation-in-primary-schools</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 20/02/2018 15:25:57 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

838072

registered interest
date	06/02/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Day Care
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much his Department plans to spend on childcare for disadvantaged children in 2018; and how much his Department has spent on such childcare in each of last three years.
tabling member constituency	Batley and Spen
tabling member printed	Tracy Brabin
uin	127080
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/02/2018 answer text <p>We fund 15 hours of free childcare a week for disadvantaged children aged two, three and four, as well as the early years pupil premium for disadvantaged three and four year olds.</p><p> </p><p>Our funding allocations for the following financial years can be found at:</p><p>2018-19 (Initial allocation):</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>2017-18 (Provisional allocation):</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dedicated-schools-grant-dsg-2017-to-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dedicated-schools-grant-dsg-2017-to-2018</a>.</p><p>2016-17 (Final allocation):</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dedicated-schools-grant-dsg-2016-to-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dedicated-schools-grant-dsg-2016-to-2017</a>.</p><p>2015-16 (Final allocation):</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dedicated-schools-grant-dsg-2015-to-2016" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dedicated-schools-grant-dsg-2015-to-2016</a>.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 20/02/2018 15:13:42 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4588 label Biography information for Tracy Brabin

838075

registered interest
date	06/02/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pre-school Education: Inspections
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many early years education and childcare providers have not received an Ofsted inspection in the last (a) five and (b) ten years.
tabling member constituency	Batley and Spen
tabling member printed	Tracy Brabin
uin	127081
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/02/2018 answer text <p>Ofsted is the non-ministerial government department responsible for the regulation and inspection of early education and childcare providers. They publish a regular series of statistics relating to early years providers, which can be viewed from this link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ofsted/about/statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ofsted/about/statistics</a>.</p><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 Libaries of both Houses.</p><p> </p><p><strong><br> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 20/02/2018 15:17:12 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4588 label Biography information for Tracy Brabin

838080

registered interest
date	06/02/2018
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 early years education and childcare settings have been sold and purchased by a new owner in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Batley and Spen
tabling member printed	Tracy Brabin
uin	127083
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/02/2018 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally by the Department for Education or by Ofsted.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 20/02/2018 14:58:42 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4588 label Biography information for Tracy Brabin

837334

registered interest
date	05/02/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pre-school Education: First Aid
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether it is his Department’s policy for all nursery staff to undertake compulsory paediatric first aid training.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	126453
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/02/2018 answer text <p>It is not the Department for Education’s policy for all staff working in a nursery to have paediatric first aid (PFA) training. The statutory framework for the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) says that there must be at least one person with a full PFA certificate available at all times. All newly qualified entrants to the early years workforce, who have completed a level 2 and/or level 3 early years qualification, must also have either a full or emergency PFA certificate within three months of starting work, to be included in the required staff to child ratios at level 2 or level 3 in an early years setting. The statutory framework for the EYFS can be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/early-years-foundation-stage-framework--2" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/early-years-foundation-stage-framework--2</a>.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 13/02/2018 13:18:36 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq