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845500

registered interest
date	20/02/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Academies: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will make an assessment of the effect of the financial position of the 10 largest academy trusts on the quality of their educational provision.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
uin	128472
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2018 answer text <p>The Department for Education, through its Regional Schools Commissioners (RSCs), monitors the educational performance of all academy trusts. Similarly, the Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA) monitors the financial position and viability of all trusts. Working very closely together, RSCs and the ESFA take robust action in accordance with their responsibilities when they need to.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 23/02/2018 14:30:21 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

845550

registered interest
date	20/02/2018
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 Secretary of State for Education, how many childcare providers in (a) the North East and (b) England are offering the 30-hours free childcare scheme with additional charges.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne North
tabling member printed	Catherine McKinnell
uin	128522
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2018 answer text <p>Our statutory guidance and operational guidance are clear that government funding is intended to deliver 15 or 30 hours a week of free, high-quality, flexible childcare. It is not intended to cover the costs of meals, other consumables, additional hours or additional services.</p><p>Providers can and should feel free to charge parents for meals, consumables (such as nappies and sun cream) and for additional activities (such as trips). But parents must not be required to pay any fee as a condition of taking up a free entitlement place, and must be offered alternative options.</p><p>Where a parent chooses to pay for these, it is a private matter between the provider and the parent. Our guidance does not address how providers operate their private businesses over and above a child’s free hours.</p><p>The evaluation of early delivery areas found that providers were willing and able to offer 30 hours, and that parents were not deterred from taking up their place by additional charges.<strong><br> </strong></p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 23/02/2018 14:32:53 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4125 label Biography information for Catherine McKinnell

843635

registered interest
date	19/02/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Swimming: Primary Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what information his Department holds on the proportion of primary schools that provided the Government's recommended number of hours of swimming tuition in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	127976
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2018 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally.</p><p>While swimming and water safety is compulsory in the national curriculum for PE at primary levels (key stages 1 and 2), the department does not set a recommended number of hours to swimming lessons in schools.</p><p>As part of the government’s ‘Sporting Future’ strategy the department asked a group of representatives from across the swimming sector to submit an independent report setting out recommendations for improving curriculum swimming. Their report was published in July 2017 and can be found at: <a href="http://www.swimming.org/assets/Swim_England_Curriculum_Swimming_and_Water_Safety_Review_Group_Report_2017.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.swimming.org/assets/Swim_England_Curriculum_Swimming_and_Water_Safety_Review_Group_Report_2017.pdf</a>.</p><p>The department has established an implementation group and is currently reviewing the recommendations in the report.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 127977 127978 question first answered 22/02/2018 16:57:31 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

843636

registered interest
date	19/02/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Swimming: Primary Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what information his Department holds on the proportion of primary schools in Haringey that provided the Government's recommended number of hours of swimming tuition in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	127977
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2018 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally.</p><p>While swimming and water safety is compulsory in the national curriculum for PE at primary levels (key stages 1 and 2), the department does not set a recommended number of hours to swimming lessons in schools.</p><p>As part of the government’s ‘Sporting Future’ strategy the department asked a group of representatives from across the swimming sector to submit an independent report setting out recommendations for improving curriculum swimming. Their report was published in July 2017 and can be found at: <a href="http://www.swimming.org/assets/Swim_England_Curriculum_Swimming_and_Water_Safety_Review_Group_Report_2017.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.swimming.org/assets/Swim_England_Curriculum_Swimming_and_Water_Safety_Review_Group_Report_2017.pdf</a>.</p><p>The department has established an implementation group and is currently reviewing the recommendations in the report.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 127976 127978 question first answered 22/02/2018 16:57:31 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

843637

registered interest
date	19/02/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Swimming: Primary Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what information his Department holds on the proportion of primary schools in London that provided the Government's recommended number of hours of swimming tuition in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	127978
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2018 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally.</p><p>While swimming and water safety is compulsory in the national curriculum for PE at primary levels (key stages 1 and 2), the department does not set a recommended number of hours to swimming lessons in schools.</p><p>As part of the government’s ‘Sporting Future’ strategy the department asked a group of representatives from across the swimming sector to submit an independent report setting out recommendations for improving curriculum swimming. Their report was published in July 2017 and can be found at: <a href="http://www.swimming.org/assets/Swim_England_Curriculum_Swimming_and_Water_Safety_Review_Group_Report_2017.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.swimming.org/assets/Swim_England_Curriculum_Swimming_and_Water_Safety_Review_Group_Report_2017.pdf</a>.</p><p>The department has established an implementation group and is currently reviewing the recommendations in the report.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 127976 127977 question first answered 22/02/2018 16:57:31 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

843686

registered interest
date	19/02/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Special Educational Needs: Speech and Language Disorders
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether his Department has made an impact assessment of its plans to discontinue funding for specialist speech, language and communication support.
tabling member constituency	Batley and Spen
tabling member printed	Tracy Brabin
uin	128028
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2018 answer text <p>Specialist speech, language and communication support is not funded directly by the Department for Education. It is commissioned locally, for example by local authorities using their high needs funding budgets, and also via clinical commissioning groups.</p><p> </p><p>The department’s current one-year contract with I CAN, on behalf of The Communication Trust (TCT) is due to end, as planned, at the end of March 2018. The contract was to develop sustainable resources and programmes to support the education workforce to develop their skills in supporting children and young people with speech, language and communication needs. We are in discussion with TCT about how best to ensure that all practitioners are able to make continued use of the wealth of materials, resources and training developed through this contract.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 22/02/2018 17:20:52 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4588 label Biography information for Tracy Brabin

843885

registered interest
date	19/02/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pupils: Poverty
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the oral contribution of the Under-Secretary of State for Education of 19 January 2018, Official Report, column 1247, how local authorities can apply to become a pilot area for schemes to combat school holiday hunger.
tabling member constituency	Bristol East
tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
uin	128157
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2018 answer text <p>The activity on research and stakeholder engagement mentioned on 19 January is already underway and further details for our pre-piloting activity in Summer 2018 will be made available shortly. The aim of this initial work will be to inform the development of a pilot programme which will run in the 2019 Easter and summer holidays. Drawing on the learning from this research and engagement activity, government will set out our plans for the pilot programme later in 2018.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 22/02/2018 17:01:57 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy

838921

registered interest
date	08/02/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Inspections
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment the Government has made of the potential effect on the provision of education when Ofsted inspections do not occur routinely due to a school going through the process of converting to academy status.
tabling member constituency	Bethnal Green and Bow
tabling member printed	Rushanara Ali
uin	127483
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/02/2018 answer text <p>When a maintained school is judged as inadequate, it receives an academy order requiring it to convert into an academy. Ofsted will not normally commence monitoring inspections during the conversion process. The exception to this is where safeguarding is judged ineffective, in which case inspectors may visit prior to the conversion taking effect, in order to ensure that pupils are safe.</p><p> </p><p>In cases where arrangements for planned conversion have not been confirmed six months after the academy order has been issued, the department will discuss the progress of the conversion with Ofsted, and Ofsted will decide whether to schedule a monitoring visit or to review the decision again at a future date.</p><p> </p><p>Once the maintained school has re-opened as an academy, Ofsted will not normally carry out an inspection until its third year of operation. The department believes an incoming sponsor should have sufficient time to turn around a failing school before Ofsted revisits. However, where there are significant concerns Ofsted may still decide to inspect before the school's third year of operation.</p><p> </p><p>In the case of a maintained school voluntarily converting to academy status, the pattern of routine Ofsted inspections is not affected.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 21/02/2018 17:05:21 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4138 label Biography information for Rushanara Ali

838977

registered interest
date	08/02/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Academies: Sponsorship
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 times a multi-academy trust has withdrawn sponsorship of agreeing in principle to sponsor a school in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
uin	127538
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/02/2018 answer text <p>Regional Schools Commissioners (RSCs), acting on behalf of my right hon Friend, the Secretary of State for Education, and advised by headteacher boards, have responsibility for agreeing a suitable sponsor for a maintained school. RSCs assess suitability by considering a range of factors including: the skills and experience of key staff, the record of school improvement, financial management, geography, and any experience with similar schools or with similar pupil groups. Potential sponsors also conduct their own due diligence to make sure that they fully understand what is required to secure rapid and sustainable improvement of the school concerned. A sponsor may decide to withdraw at any stage during this process. As a result, this information is not held centrally and could only be obtained as disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 20/02/2018 15:12:22 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell

838979

registered interest
date	08/02/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pre-school Education: Teachers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he is taking to increase the number of early years teachers.
tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
uin	127540
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/02/2018 answer text <p>The department funds the Early Years Initial Teacher Training (EYITT) programme, which leads to Early Years Teacher Status. EYITT was introduced in September 2013 and builds on the achievements of its predecessor, the Early Years Professional Status. Early years teachers are specialists trained to deliver the Early Years Foundation Stage for children from birth to age five and provide pedagogical leadership in early years settings. To date over 16,000 specialist early years graduates have been trained.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 21/02/2018 14:47:54 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell