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915034

registered interest
date	01/06/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Free Schools
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the oral Statement of 17 July 2017 on Schools Update, Official Report, column 563, what assessment he has made of the implications for his Department's policy on free schools presumption of the 30 free schools delivered through the local authority route.
tabling member constituency	Oxford West and Abingdon
tabling member printed	Layla Moran
uin	149069
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/06/2018 answer text <p>On 17 July 2017 the department announced that in delivering plans for a further 140 free schools we would deliver 30, through the local authority route. Since then, we have approved 18 schools to be delivered through this route.</p><p> </p><p>On 11 May 2018 we published updated guidance for local authorities on the free schools presumption process. This can be accessed at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/establishing-a-new-school-free-school-presumption" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/establishing-a-new-school-free-school-presumption</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 11/06/2018 12:02:00 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4656 label Biography information for Layla Moran

911104

registered interest
date	24/05/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Primary Education: Free School Meals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many primary school pupils received a free school meal in England in 2017.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	147805
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/06/2018 answer text <p>The number of pupils in state-funded primary schools taking a free school meal on census day in January 2017 was 536,650.</p><p> </p><p>The number and proportion of pupils eligible for and claiming free school meals, as well as those taking a free school meal on census day, are published in the annual ‘Schools, pupils and their characteristics’ statistical release, available at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/schools-pupils-and-their-characteristics-january-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/schools-pupils-and-their-characteristics-january-2017</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 04/06/2018 06:39:19 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

911118

registered interest
date	24/05/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pupils: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
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 23 May 2018 to Question 145616, if his Department will review the adequacy of the current approach to pupils with hyperactivity.
tabling member constituency	Leigh
tabling member printed	Jo Platt
uin	147984
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/06/2018 answer text <p>It is the responsibility of schools to keep under review the approach they take to supporting pupils with special educational needs and disability (SEND), including those with hyperactivity. The government keep the overall SEND framework under review through regular monitoring of implementation through our SEND advisers and through the Ofsted and Care Quality Commission local area inspections. These joint area-based inspections are in addition to Ofsted’s inspections of individual schools.</p><p> </p><p>It is important that future support for all children and young people with SEND is targeted where it will be most effective. Our response to Dame Christine Lenehan’s review of residential schools and colleges, expected later this year, will set out our next steps in achieving the vision of a reformed SEND system. We also plan to review the 0-25 SEND Code of Practice in due course.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 04/06/2018 06:42:47 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4673 label Biography information for Jo Platt

911144

registered interest
date	24/05/2018
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, if he will make an assessment of the sustainability of funding levels for early years provision.
tabling member constituency	Mansfield
tabling member printed	Ben Bradley
uin	147971
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/06/2018 answer text <p>By 2019-20 we will be spending around £6 billion on childcare support – a record amount. This includes around £1 billion extra a year to deliver 30 hours of free childcare and fund the increase in hourly rates that we introduced in April 2017. Our average funding rates are based on the department’s ‘Review of Childcare Costs’ which was described as “thorough and wide ranging” by the National Audit Office. The review looked at both current and future cost pressures. Our average hourly funding rate to authorities for three and four-year-olds, which increased from £4.56 to nearly £5 an hour, compares very favourably with published independent research, which showed that the average hourly delivery cost to be £3.72.</p><p> </p><p>We continue to monitor delivery costs and have recently commissioned new research to provide us with further robust and detailed childcare cost data of under five-year-olds using a representative sample of early years providers.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 05/06/2018 15:42:20 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4663 label Biography information for Ben Bradley

911145

registered interest
date	24/05/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Regional Schools Commissioners and Schools Commissioner
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, (a) what the budget was and (b) how many staff were employed in the (i) office of the National Schools Commissioner and (ii) offices of each of the Regional Schools Commissioners in each of the last three financial years to date.
tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
uin	147898
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/06/2018 answer text <p>As a result of structural changes within the Department for Education in 2015-16, the Academies Regional Delivery Group (ARDG) was created, incorporating the National Schools Commissioner and Regional School Commissioners (RSC) with complementary regional and other functions. Workforce costs and numbers for ARDG are therefore not comparable with predecessor structures and organisation.</p><p> </p><p>Workforce budget spend for financial year (FY) 2016-17 and for FY 2017-18 and Staffing Full Time Equivalent figures (FTE) as at 31 March in 2017 and 2018.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>RSC Region</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Workforce budget spend </strong> <strong>FY 2016-17 (m)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>31 March 2017</strong> <strong>FTE</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Workforce budget spend </strong> <strong>FY 2017-18 (m)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>31 March 2018</strong> <strong>FTE</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South West</p></td><td><p>£2.20</p></td><td><p>54.66</p></td><td><p>£1.98</p></td><td><p>55.59</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West Midlands</p></td><td><p>£1.90</p></td><td><p>58.62</p></td><td><p>£1.91</p></td><td><p>52.57</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East Midlands and Humber</p></td><td><p>£1.90</p></td><td><p>46.99</p></td><td><p>£1.48</p></td><td><p>59.93</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lancashire and West Yorkshire</p></td><td><p>£1.85</p></td><td><p>54.16</p></td><td><p>£1.91</p></td><td><p>68.71</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North East London and East of England</p></td><td><p>£1.60</p></td><td><p>44.01</p></td><td><p>£1.62</p></td><td><p>41.46</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North</p></td><td><p>£1.57</p></td><td><p>40.48</p></td><td><p>£1.29</p></td><td><p>41.28</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North West London and South Central</p></td><td><p>£1.89</p></td><td><p>49.35</p></td><td><p>£1.62</p></td><td><p>52.43</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South London and South East</p></td><td><p>£2.18</p></td><td><p>54.19</p></td><td><p>£1.66</p></td><td><p>58.52</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>ARDG National Core</p></td><td><p>£7.05</p></td><td><p>127.27</p></td><td><p>£8.13</p></td><td><p>148.77</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>RSC Staff Programmes Costs</p></td><td><p>£4.08</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>£9.95</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£26.22</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>529.73</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£31.55</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>579.26</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>As of 1 March 2017</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>As of 1 March 2018</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Number of academies and free schools (including studio schools and university technical colleges (UTCs))</strong></p></td><td><p>6,518</p></td><td><p>7,613</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Approximate number of pupils in academies and free schools (including studio schools and UTCs)</strong></p></td><td><p>3.4 million</p></td><td><p>3.7 million</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Note: January 2018 census information is due to be published 28 June 2018.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 04/06/2018 16:17:02 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell

911178

registered interest
date	24/05/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Sugar: Taxation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when his Department plans to allocate funding for 2019-20 from the soft drinks levy; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Morecambe and Lunesdale
tabling member printed	David Morris
uin	147896
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/06/2018 answer text <p>The 2016 Budget announced funding for a number of programmes linked to the revenue from the Soft Drinks Industry Levy. The Department of Education (DfE) will receive £575 million during the current spending review period.</p><p> </p><p>The funding has been allocated to a number of programmes to support pupil health and wellbeing. In financial year 2019-20 £160 million and has been allocated to the primary physical education and school sport premium (totalling £320 million with funding from DfE and the Department of Health and Social Care) and £14 million for breakfast clubs.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 04/06/2018 16:05:42 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4135 label Biography information for David Morris

910184

registered interest
date	23/05/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Foster Care
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to Fostering in England 2016 to 2017: main findings, published by Ofsted on 29 March 2018, if he will publish the number of (a) foster places, (b) foster placements, and (c) placements not available in each local authority area for which figures were collected between 1 April 2016 and 31 March 2017.
tabling member constituency	Nottingham South
tabling member printed	Lilian Greenwood
uin	147431
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/06/2018 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 for Coventry South and a copy of her reply will be placed in the Libraries of both Houses.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 04/06/2018 06:34:06 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4029 label Biography information for Lilian Greenwood

910197

registered interest
date	23/05/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Academies
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what guidance his Department provides to Regional Schools Commissioners on whether to consult with local hon. Members and multi-academy trusts with a relevant interest when brokering schools from a failing multi-academy trust.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	147348
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/06/2018 answer text <p>There is no formal guidance provided to Regional Schools Commissioners on the need to consult when re-brokering schools but we encourage transparency, listening exercises and communications with key stakeholders, which can include local MPs, to ensure that the department is in receipt of as much information as possible before deciding on a particular issue.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 04/06/2018 09:09:20 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

910218

registered interest
date	23/05/2018
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 21 May 2018 to Question 144926 on Social Mobility Commission: Public Appointments, if he will publish the (a) principal places of residence and (b) main employment and occupational sectors declared by applicants for Chair of the Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission.
tabling member constituency	Ashton-under-Lyne
tabling member printed	Angela Rayner
uin	147465
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/06/2018 answer text <p>We received 21 applications for the role of Chair of the Social Mobility Commission. Of those, 20 completed diversity monitoring forms. A breakdown by principal places of residence and main employment and occupational sectors are set out below:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Principal places of residence</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Scotland</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North East</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North West</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Yorkshire and Humber</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East Midlands</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West Midlands</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>London</p></td><td><p>6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South East</p></td><td><p>8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South West</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wales</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Northern Ireland</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Main employment and occupational sectors</strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Private sector</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wider public sector</p></td><td><p>9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Third sector</p></td><td><p>5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Mixed</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Other</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Prefer not to say</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>To protect personal information we have not provided more detailed geographic information on the candidates’ place of residence.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 04/06/2018 06:10:33 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4356 label Biography information for Angela Rayner

910219

registered interest
date	23/05/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children's Centres: Closures
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 22 January 2018 to Question 123506, on Children's Centres: Closures, if he will publish the (a) name and (b) post-code of Sure Start centres that closed between 2010 and 2016.
tabling member constituency	Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford
tabling member printed	Yvette Cooper
uin	147335
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/06/2018 answer text <p>Since 18 September 2017, real-time data on Sure Start children’s centres and children’s centre linked sites has been supplied by local authorities via the department’s Get Information about Schools database portal at: <a href="https://www.get-information-schools.service.gov.uk/" target="_blank">https://www.get-information-schools.service.gov.uk/</a>.</p><p> </p><p>Based on the information supplied by local authorities[1], the attached document provides details of the name and postcode of children’s centres that closed between 2010 and 2016.</p><p> </p><p>Councils are reconfiguring services to deliver them more efficiently. If a council decides to close a children’s centre, statutory guidance is clear that they should demonstrate that local children and families would not be adversely affected and local areas continue to have sufficient children’s centres to meet their needs.</p><p> </p><p>[1] The list of children’s centres closed between 2010 and 2016 is based on information supplied by local authorities as at 24 May 2018 (8:30am). These figures may be different to previous answers, and could change again in the future, since local authorities may update the database at any time.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 04/06/2018 06:29:29 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi attachment 1 file name 147335_Names_and_postcodes_of_childrens_centres__closed_2010-2016.pdf title Names_postcodes_of_childrens_centres_closed2010/16
tabling member	420 label Biography information for Yvette Cooper