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819156

registered interest
date	09/01/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pre-school Education: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, for what reason the Early Years Investment Fund has been closed.
tabling member constituency	Batley and Spen
tabling member printed	Tracy Brabin
uin	121833
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2018 answer text <p>A decision was made not to continue development of the Early Years Investment Fund in order to ensure resources are being directed to where there is the greatest need.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 15/01/2018 17:52:55 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4588 label Biography information for Tracy Brabin

819158

registered interest
date	09/01/2018
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 many (a) childminders and (b) group-based childcare settings rated (i) good and (ii) outstanding by Ofsted in each local authority have left the Early Years Register in each month of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Batley and Spen
tabling member printed	Tracy Brabin
uin	121835
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2018 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the answer given on 27 November 2017 to Questions 114905, 114907 and 114908:</p><p><a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-questions-answers/?page=1&amp;max=20&amp;questiontype=AllQuestions&amp;house=commons%2clords&amp;uin=114908" target="_blank">http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-questions-answers/?page=1&amp;max=20&amp;questiontype=AllQuestions&amp;house=commons%2clords&amp;uin=114908</a>.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 15/01/2018 17:52:48 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4588 label Biography information for Tracy Brabin

816676

registered interest
date	05/01/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Department for Education: Sick Leave
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many days' sick leave officials in her Department took for reasons relating to stress in the last year.
tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
tabling member printed	Tom Brake
uin	121103
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2018 answer text <p>The number of employees in the Department for Education from December 2016 to December 2017 who were absent due to stress was 102, this represented 2% of the total workforce. The proportion of sickness absence related to stress was 14% of the overall sickness absence for the department.</p><p> </p><p>The total amount of sickness absence days in the Department for Education from December 2016 to December 2017 due to stress was 2652.</p><p> </p><p>The estimated cost to the department from December 2016 to December 2017 for employees taking sickness absence, is estimated at £2,700,000.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 121100 121107 question first answered 15/01/2018 17:54:39 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake

816680

registered interest
date	05/01/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Department for Education: Sick Leave
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the cost was to her Department as a result of officials taking sick leave in the last year.
tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
tabling member printed	Tom Brake
uin	121107
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2018 answer text <p>The number of employees in the Department for Education from December 2016 to December 2017 who were absent due to stress was 102, this represented 2% of the total workforce. The proportion of sickness absence related to stress was 14% of the overall sickness absence for the department.</p><p> </p><p>The total amount of sickness absence days in the Department for Education from December 2016 to December 2017 due to stress was 2652.</p><p> </p><p>The estimated cost to the department from December 2016 to December 2017 for employees taking sickness absence, is estimated at £2,700,000.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 121100 121103 question first answered 15/01/2018 17:54:39 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake

816722

registered interest
date	05/01/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Hearing Impairment
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 local authorities provide radio aids hearing technology to assist deaf children in educational settings.
tabling member constituency	Mitcham and Morden
tabling member printed	Siobhain McDonagh
uin	121149
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2018 answer text <p>We do not collect data on the provision by local authorities of radio aids to deaf children in educational settings.</p><p>Schools and local authorities are required to provide auxiliary aids as part of the reasonable adjustment duty under the Equality Act 2010. Schools are expected to provide an auxiliary aid or service for a disabled pupil when it would be reasonable to do so and if such an aid would alleviate any substantial disadvantage that the pupil faces in comparison to non-disabled pupils. All such decisions depend on the facts of each individual case. Where there is a centrally organised visual or hearing impairment service it may be reasonable for the local authority to provide more expensive aids or support through that service but not reasonable for an individual school to have to provide them.</p><p>Local authorities must have regard to the statutory responsibilities placed upon them by the Children and Families Act 2014 to determine appropriate provision for children and young people with special educational needs or a disability (SEND) in their area and to keep it under review. They are also required to consult children and young people and their families on their published Local Offer of SEND provision. This is especially important for low incidence types of SEND such as hearing impairment.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 15/01/2018 17:51:38 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	193 label Biography information for Dame Siobhain McDonagh

816777

registered interest
date	05/01/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Education: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, which local authorities have applied to her Department for authorisation to make further deductions or variations to the limits set out in the School and Early Years Finance (England) Regulations 2017.
tabling member constituency	Waveney
tabling member printed	Peter Aldous
uin	121204
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2018 answer text <p>89 local authorities requested to disapply the School and Early Years Finance (England) regulations 2017, this relates to the funding year 2017/18.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 15/01/2018 17:53:31 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4069 label Biography information for Peter Aldous

816951

registered interest
date	05/01/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pre-school Education: Universal Credit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 13 December 2017 to Question 117664, what use her Department makes of the information on qualifying households in receipt of universal credit and other legacy benefits that is provided to her Department by the Department for Work and Pensions.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	121378
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2018 answer text <p>The department receives information from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) on families who are potentially eligible for the entitlement to free early education for two-year olds, and passes relevant information to local authorities seven times a year. Local authorities may then use this to make direct contact with parents, to encourage and assist them to take up the offer. The information may also be used by local authorities to help with future capacity and sufficiency planning by providing a better understanding of the distribution of potentially eligible children.</p><p>The lists are intended to help local authorities to improve take up of the offer, but do not include every potentially eligible child. There are other means by which local authorities can identify eligible children and ensure high take up. The department is working closely with the DWP to ensure the accuracy of the information that is provided. Universal Credit data will be made available to the Department for Education in order to support this policy.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 121379 question first answered 15/01/2018 17:52:12 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

816952

registered interest
date	05/01/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pre-school Education: Universal Credit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how local authorities are informed of households in their area in receipt of universal credit that include a child that is or is about to be two years’ old so that they can promote the free early years education entitlement for two-year-olds to qualifying households.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	121379
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2018 answer text <p>The department receives information from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) on families who are potentially eligible for the entitlement to free early education for two-year olds, and passes relevant information to local authorities seven times a year. Local authorities may then use this to make direct contact with parents, to encourage and assist them to take up the offer. The information may also be used by local authorities to help with future capacity and sufficiency planning by providing a better understanding of the distribution of potentially eligible children.</p><p>The lists are intended to help local authorities to improve take up of the offer, but do not include every potentially eligible child. There are other means by which local authorities can identify eligible children and ensure high take up. The department is working closely with the DWP to ensure the accuracy of the information that is provided. Universal Credit data will be made available to the Department for Education in order to support this policy.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 121378 question first answered 15/01/2018 17:52:12 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

816953

registered interest
date	05/01/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pre-school Education: Universal Credit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department will be taking account of families in receipt of universal credit when evaluating and benchmarking the take-up of the free early years education entitlement for two-year-olds in local authority areas.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	121380
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2018 answer text <p>Take-up rates for the eligible two-year-old population benefitting from funded early education are published annually in the National Statistics release: Provision for children under five years of age in England. The next release is scheduled for June/July 2018 covering data from January 2018.</p><p> </p><p>The department obtains information about eligible households from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). We are working closely with the DWP to improve our data-sharing and ensure the comprehensiveness of the information provided.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 15/01/2018 17:51:07 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas