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889894

registered interest
date	23/04/2018
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, whether his Department plans to increase the hourly rate to nursery providers under the 30-hours free childcare scheme.
tabling member constituency	Walsall South
tabling member printed	Valerie Vaz
uin	136946
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/04/2018 answer text <p>By 2019-20, the government will be spending £1 billion a year to deliver 30 hours of free childcare and fund the increase in rates that we introduced in April 2017.</p><p> </p><p>Our average hourly funding rate to local authorities for three- and four-year olds compares very favourably with published independent research into the hourly cost of childcare. We will continue to monitor delivery costs and have commissioned new research to provide us with robust and detailed cost data from a representative sample of early years providers.</p><p> </p><p>The government requires all local authorities to pass through 95% of their three and four year old funding to early years providers. The government allows 5% of funding to be held back so that authorities can meet their statutory duty to administer our entitlements and for central services such as specialist support for special educational needs provision.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 136947 question first answered 26/04/2018 15:12:23 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4076 label Biography information for Valerie Vaz

889895

registered interest
date	23/04/2018
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, whether he has plans for all the money provided to local authorities under the 30-hours free childcare scheme to be passed on to childcare providers.
tabling member constituency	Walsall South
tabling member printed	Valerie Vaz
uin	136947
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/04/2018 answer text <p>By 2019-20, the government will be spending £1 billion a year to deliver 30 hours of free childcare and fund the increase in rates that we introduced in April 2017.</p><p> </p><p>Our average hourly funding rate to local authorities for three- and four-year olds compares very favourably with published independent research into the hourly cost of childcare. We will continue to monitor delivery costs and have commissioned new research to provide us with robust and detailed cost data from a representative sample of early years providers.</p><p> </p><p>The government requires all local authorities to pass through 95% of their three and four year old funding to early years providers. The government allows 5% of funding to be held back so that authorities can meet their statutory duty to administer our entitlements and for central services such as specialist support for special educational needs provision.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 136946 question first answered 26/04/2018 15:12:23 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4076 label Biography information for Valerie Vaz

889966

registered interest
date	23/04/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Football
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate his Department has made of the number of girls who play football in (a) primary and (b) secondary schools in England in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
uin	137018
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/05/2018 answer text <p>This information is not held centrally.</p><p> </p><p>The government is supporting the new Active Lives (Children and Young People) survey, which was rolled out to schools in September 2017. The survey is delivered by Sport England on behalf of the Department of Digital, Culture Media and Sport, Department of Education and Department of Health and Social Care. It will provide a world-leading approach to gathering data on how children aged 5-15 engage with sport and physical activity. Data will include girls’ participation in football. The first set of results is expected by January 2019.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 01/05/2018 16:26:29 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft

889978

registered interest
date	23/04/2018
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, what information his Department holds on the average weekly cost of a childcare place in (a) Lewisham, Deptford constituency, (b) Lewisham borough and (c) London in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
uin	137030
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/05/2018 answer text <p>The department collects and publishes data on the regional weekly cost of childcare through our regular ‘Childcare and early years survey of parents’. This is available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-childcare-and-early-years" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-childcare-and-early-years</a>.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 01/05/2018 16:23:14 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft

890011

registered interest
date	23/04/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Social Mobility Commission: Public Appointments
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 16 April 2018 to Question 135177, how many of the applicants for the position of Chair of the Social Mobility Commission were (a) women and (b) BAME.
tabling member constituency	Ashton-under-Lyne
tabling member printed	Angela Rayner
uin	137063
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/05/2018 answer text <p>We received 21 applications for the role of Chair of the Social Mobility Commission. Of those 21 applicants, 20 completed diversity monitoring forms. A detailed breakdown is set out below:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Gender</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Percentage</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Male</p></td><td><p>11</p></td><td><p>55%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Female</p></td><td><p>9</p></td><td><p>45%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Ethnicity</strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Black, Asian, and minority ethnic</p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>25%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>White - British, Irish, Other White background</p></td><td><p>15</p></td><td><p>75%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 11/05/2018 13:52:41 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4356 label Biography information for Angela Rayner

890053

registered interest
date	23/04/2018
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, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of conferring qualified teacher status on people who have completed the (a) the early years professional status and (b) early years teacher status, and if he will make a statement on his Department's early years workforce strategy.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	137104
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/05/2018 answer text <p>We are considering the feasibility of a range of approaches to supporting graduates in the early years’ workforce including the training routes available. This work is still underway.</p><p> </p><p>Delivery of the commitments in the workforce strategy to support workforce recruitment and development, published in March 2017, is underway. For example, we have consulted on criteria for new, more robust, level 2 qualifications and are working with stakeholders to finalise these. Stakeholders are also working with us to develop career pathways information to support careers advice, recruitment and staff development.</p><p> </p><p>Early years providers are responsible for building and supporting their workforce, but the government is committed to continuing to work with the sector to review the challenges they face, and to collaborating to identify and implement solutions.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 01/05/2018 16:34:44 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

890057

registered interest
date	23/04/2018
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, if his Department will make it his policy to review the early years national funding formula to enable childcare settings to pay graduate-level wages to at least one member of staff.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	137108
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/05/2018 answer text <p>By 2019-20, the government will be spending around £6 billion a year on childcare support, including £1 billion to deliver 30 hours of free childcare and pay the higher funding rates that we introduced in April 2017.</p><p> </p><p>Our funding rates are based on evidence from our ‘Review of Childcare Costs’, which was described as “thorough and wide ranging” by the National Audit Office. Local authorities’ individual funding rates are set by the new early years national funding formula which takes account of relative children’s needs and costs of delivery. It is for providers to determine how best to organise their staffing.</p><p> </p><p>We continue to monitor delivery costs and have commissioned new research to provide us with robust and detailed cost data from a representative sample of early years providers.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 01/05/2018 14:26:14 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

890059

registered interest
date	23/04/2018
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, what steps his Department is taking ensure the adequacy of guidance issued to childcare providers on the support his Department offers on graduate qualifications.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	137109
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/05/2018 answer text <p>The accredited training providers are responsible for the marketing of and recruitment of trainees to their courses. We provide guidance on our website for employers and providers, including:</p><ul><li>Early years initial teacher training guide for employers: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/early-years-initial-teacher-training-itt-a-guide-for-employers" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/early-years-initial-teacher-training-itt-a-guide-for-employers</a>.</li><li>Early years initial teacher training guide for providers: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/early-years-initial-teacher-training-a-guide-for-providers#training-routes" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/early-years-initial-teacher-training-a-guide-for-providers#training-routes</a>.</li></ul><p>Our ‘Get Into Teaching’ website also has a specific ‘Early Years’ area: <a href="https://getintoteaching.education.gov.uk/explore-my-options/become-an-early-years-teacher" target="_blank">https://getintoteaching.education.gov.uk/explore-my-options/become-an-early-years-teacher</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 01/05/2018 15:26:28 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

890060

registered interest
date	23/04/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Teachers: Training
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department has taken to improve the transparency of the (a) content of the modules within the early years initial teacher training course and (b) routes from that course to qualifications that can follow.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	137110
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/05/2018 answer text <p>Early years initial teacher training courses are designed and delivered by accredited providers to train individuals to meet the Teachers’ Standards (Early Years) which were published in 2013. The Teachers’ Standards (Early Years) are available at:</p><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/211646/Early_Years_Teachers__Standards.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/211646/Early_Years_Teachers__Standards.pdf</a>.</p><p>Early years initial teacher training requirements and supporting advice are available at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/early-years-itt-requirements-supporting-advice" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/early-years-itt-requirements-supporting-advice</a>.</p><p>Early Years Teacher Status is awarded to graduates who are judged to have met all of the Teachers’ Standards (Early Years) in practice from birth to the end of the Early Years Foundation Stage.</p><p>Individuals who have achieved a degree qualification can pursue masters or doctorate courses, for example.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 01/05/2018 16:31:21 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

890062

registered interest
date	23/04/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Teachers: Training
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if his Department will disaggregate the data for primary initial teacher training and those for the early years initial teacher training programme in any future relevant publications on gov.uk.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	137112
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/05/2018 answer text <p>The Department does not aggregate Primary initial teacher training (ITT) with Early Years ITT in any of its statistical publications relating to ITT.</p><p>Figures for Early Years are published separately to Primary in the ITT Allocations and ITT Census publications, available at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/tsm-and-initial-teacher-training-allocations-2018-to-2019" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/tsm-and-initial-teacher-training-allocations-2018-to-2019</a> and <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/initial-teacher-training-trainee-number-census-2017-to-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/initial-teacher-training-trainee-number-census-2017-to-2018</a> respectively.</p><p>The ITT Performance Profiles, to date, excluded trainees undertaking Early Years ITT programmes. The Department intends to publish data on the outcomes of Early Years trainees as experimental statistics for the first time as an annex to the ITT Performance Profiles 2016/17 in July 2018. The ITT Performance Profiles can be viewed here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/initial-teacher-training-performance-profiles-2015-to-2016" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/initial-teacher-training-performance-profiles-2015-to-2016</a>.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 01/05/2018 16:00:56 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq