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1063640

registered interest
date	18/02/2019
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, whether his Department plans to allocate further supplementary funding to maintained nursery schools after 2019-20.
tabling member constituency	Houghton and Sunderland South
tabling member printed	Bridget Phillipson
uin	222627
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/02/2019 answer text <p>Maintained nursery schools make a valuable contribution to improving the lives of some of our most disadvantaged children, including those with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND).</p><p>Maintained nursery schools experience costs over and above those of other early years providers. That is why we are providing local authorities with around £60 million a year in supplementary funding to enable them to protect maintained nursery schools’ funding.</p><p>This arrangement is due to end in March 2020, and what happens after that will be determined by the next Spending Review. Owing to uncertainty over the exact date of the Spending Review, we are considering how best to handle transitional arrangements for a number of areas, including maintained nursery schools.</p><p>Local funding decisions are a matter for the relevant local authority. We are clear that it would be premature for local authorities to make decisions about the future of their maintained nursery schools before the Spending Review outcomes are published.</p><p> </p><p>There is a presumption against the closure of maintained nursery schools. This does not mean that they will never close, but when they do, local authorities have a statutory requirement to ensure that alternative provision: is of at least equal quality; maintains expertise and specialism; and is more accessible and convenient for local parents.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 222629 222630 222631 222632 question first answered 21/02/2019 12:52:09 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4046 label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson

1063641

registered interest
date	18/02/2019
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, what estimate his Department has made of the number of maintained nursery schools that would close if they received no further funding guarantee for the period after 2020.
tabling member constituency	Houghton and Sunderland South
tabling member printed	Bridget Phillipson
uin	222628
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/02/2019 answer text <p>Maintained nursery schools (MNS) make a valuable contribution to improving the lives of some of our most disadvantaged children.</p><p>MNS experience costs over and above those of other early years providers. That is why we are providing local authorities with around £60 million a year in supplementary funding to enable them to protect MNS funding.</p><p>This arrangement is due to end in March 2020, and what happens after that will be determined by the next Spending Review. We are aware that the supplementary funding for MNS currently accounts for about a third of their budgets - owing to uncertainty over the exact date of the Spending Review, we are considering how best to handle transitional arrangements for a number of areas, including MNS.</p><p>This government has an ambition to halve the proportion of children who finish reception year without the early communication and reading skills they need to thrive. To support this we are investing over £100 million in our social mobility programme. This includes £20 million in high quality, evidence-based training and professional development for pre-reception early years staff in disadvantaged areas; £26 million in a network of English hubs; and £10 million to understand ‘what works’ in partnership with the Education Endowment Foundation.</p><p>This ambitious work is underpinned by our early education entitlements - where we are making record investment. This includes the entitlement to up to 15 hours of free early education for disadvantaged 2-year-olds. Since its introduction in 2013, over 700,000 2-year-olds have benefited and take-up has risen and is now 72%.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 222633 question first answered 26/02/2019 17:23:29 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4046 label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson

1063642

registered interest
date	18/02/2019
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 assessment his Department has made of the reasons for the reduction in the number of maintained nursery schools since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Houghton and Sunderland South
tabling member printed	Bridget Phillipson
uin	222629
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/02/2019 answer text <p>Maintained nursery schools make a valuable contribution to improving the lives of some of our most disadvantaged children, including those with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND).</p><p>Maintained nursery schools experience costs over and above those of other early years providers. That is why we are providing local authorities with around £60 million a year in supplementary funding to enable them to protect maintained nursery schools’ funding.</p><p>This arrangement is due to end in March 2020, and what happens after that will be determined by the next Spending Review. Owing to uncertainty over the exact date of the Spending Review, we are considering how best to handle transitional arrangements for a number of areas, including maintained nursery schools.</p><p>Local funding decisions are a matter for the relevant local authority. We are clear that it would be premature for local authorities to make decisions about the future of their maintained nursery schools before the Spending Review outcomes are published.</p><p> </p><p>There is a presumption against the closure of maintained nursery schools. This does not mean that they will never close, but when they do, local authorities have a statutory requirement to ensure that alternative provision: is of at least equal quality; maintains expertise and specialism; and is more accessible and convenient for local parents.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 222627 222630 222631 222632 question first answered 21/02/2019 12:52:09 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4046 label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson

1063643

registered interest
date	18/02/2019
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, whether his Department has plans to allocate funding to the (a) reopening and (b) opening of maintained nursery schools.
tabling member constituency	Houghton and Sunderland South
tabling member printed	Bridget Phillipson
uin	222630
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/02/2019 answer text <p>Maintained nursery schools make a valuable contribution to improving the lives of some of our most disadvantaged children, including those with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND).</p><p>Maintained nursery schools experience costs over and above those of other early years providers. That is why we are providing local authorities with around £60 million a year in supplementary funding to enable them to protect maintained nursery schools’ funding.</p><p>This arrangement is due to end in March 2020, and what happens after that will be determined by the next Spending Review. Owing to uncertainty over the exact date of the Spending Review, we are considering how best to handle transitional arrangements for a number of areas, including maintained nursery schools.</p><p>Local funding decisions are a matter for the relevant local authority. We are clear that it would be premature for local authorities to make decisions about the future of their maintained nursery schools before the Spending Review outcomes are published.</p><p> </p><p>There is a presumption against the closure of maintained nursery schools. This does not mean that they will never close, but when they do, local authorities have a statutory requirement to ensure that alternative provision: is of at least equal quality; maintains expertise and specialism; and is more accessible and convenient for local parents.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 222627 222629 222631 222632 question first answered 21/02/2019 12:52:09 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4046 label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson

1063644

registered interest
date	18/02/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pre-school Education: Closures
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 estimate of the cost to other public services in areas where maintained nursery schools have closed.
tabling member constituency	Houghton and Sunderland South
tabling member printed	Bridget Phillipson
uin	222631
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/02/2019 answer text <p>Maintained nursery schools make a valuable contribution to improving the lives of some of our most disadvantaged children, including those with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND).</p><p>Maintained nursery schools experience costs over and above those of other early years providers. That is why we are providing local authorities with around £60 million a year in supplementary funding to enable them to protect maintained nursery schools’ funding.</p><p>This arrangement is due to end in March 2020, and what happens after that will be determined by the next Spending Review. Owing to uncertainty over the exact date of the Spending Review, we are considering how best to handle transitional arrangements for a number of areas, including maintained nursery schools.</p><p>Local funding decisions are a matter for the relevant local authority. We are clear that it would be premature for local authorities to make decisions about the future of their maintained nursery schools before the Spending Review outcomes are published.</p><p> </p><p>There is a presumption against the closure of maintained nursery schools. This does not mean that they will never close, but when they do, local authorities have a statutory requirement to ensure that alternative provision: is of at least equal quality; maintains expertise and specialism; and is more accessible and convenient for local parents.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 222627 222629 222630 222632 question first answered 21/02/2019 12:52:09 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4046 label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson

1063645

registered interest
date	18/02/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pre-school Education: Closures
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment his Department has made of the effect on children with SEND of the closure of maintained nursery schools as a result of a reduction in funding allocated to those schools.
tabling member constituency	Houghton and Sunderland South
tabling member printed	Bridget Phillipson
uin	222632
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/02/2019 answer text <p>Maintained nursery schools make a valuable contribution to improving the lives of some of our most disadvantaged children, including those with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND).</p><p>Maintained nursery schools experience costs over and above those of other early years providers. That is why we are providing local authorities with around £60 million a year in supplementary funding to enable them to protect maintained nursery schools’ funding.</p><p>This arrangement is due to end in March 2020, and what happens after that will be determined by the next Spending Review. Owing to uncertainty over the exact date of the Spending Review, we are considering how best to handle transitional arrangements for a number of areas, including maintained nursery schools.</p><p>Local funding decisions are a matter for the relevant local authority. We are clear that it would be premature for local authorities to make decisions about the future of their maintained nursery schools before the Spending Review outcomes are published.</p><p> </p><p>There is a presumption against the closure of maintained nursery schools. This does not mean that they will never close, but when they do, local authorities have a statutory requirement to ensure that alternative provision: is of at least equal quality; maintains expertise and specialism; and is more accessible and convenient for local parents.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 222627 222629 222630 222631 question first answered 21/02/2019 12:52:09 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4046 label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson

1063646

registered interest
date	18/02/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pre-school Education: Closures
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 effect on social mobility of the closure of maintained nursery schools.
tabling member constituency	Houghton and Sunderland South
tabling member printed	Bridget Phillipson
uin	222633
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/02/2019 answer text <p>Maintained nursery schools (MNS) make a valuable contribution to improving the lives of some of our most disadvantaged children.</p><p>MNS experience costs over and above those of other early years providers. That is why we are providing local authorities with around £60 million a year in supplementary funding to enable them to protect MNS funding.</p><p>This arrangement is due to end in March 2020, and what happens after that will be determined by the next Spending Review. We are aware that the supplementary funding for MNS currently accounts for about a third of their budgets - owing to uncertainty over the exact date of the Spending Review, we are considering how best to handle transitional arrangements for a number of areas, including MNS.</p><p>This government has an ambition to halve the proportion of children who finish reception year without the early communication and reading skills they need to thrive. To support this we are investing over £100 million in our social mobility programme. This includes £20 million in high quality, evidence-based training and professional development for pre-reception early years staff in disadvantaged areas; £26 million in a network of English hubs; and £10 million to understand ‘what works’ in partnership with the Education Endowment Foundation.</p><p>This ambitious work is underpinned by our early education entitlements - where we are making record investment. This includes the entitlement to up to 15 hours of free early education for disadvantaged 2-year-olds. Since its introduction in 2013, over 700,000 2-year-olds have benefited and take-up has risen and is now 72%.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 222628 question first answered 26/02/2019 17:23:29 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4046 label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson

1063656

registered interest
date	18/02/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Studio@Deyes School
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many pupils attended the Studio@Deyes school in Liverpool in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
uin	222643
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/02/2019 answer text <p>The number of pupils attending Studio@Deyes school since opening in September 2016 are: 75 in 2016/17, 139 in 2017/18 and 134 pupils currently in 2018/19.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 21/02/2019 13:04:45 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson

1063657

registered interest
date	18/02/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Studio@Deyes School
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the cost to the public purse was of opening Studio@Deyes school in Liverpool in September 2016.
tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
uin	222644
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/02/2019 answer text <p>The department provides capital funding for the acquisition of sites/land and construction of free schools, university technical colleges and studio schools, and provides project development grants to proposers to cover essential non-capital costs prior to each school opening.</p><p>Figures for Studio@Deyes school are set out below and are published online on GOV.UK.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Type of Funding </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Value </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Capital Funding (site acquisition and construction)</p></td><td><p>£4,802,910</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Project Development Grant</p></td><td><p>£504,000 (covering 25 months)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total</p></td><td><p>£5,306,910</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>On 31 January 2019, following discussions with Lydiate Learning Trust, the department agreed to the in-principle closure of Studio@Deyes in August 2020 subject to a listening period. Where a school closes the department and LocatED will always aim to recover assets and identify alternative educational uses for sites. If this is not possible, the department retains the option to sell the site for a commercial return.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 21/02/2019 17:32:57 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson

1063658

registered interest
date	18/02/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Studio@Deyes School
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 the public purse of the operation of Studio@Deyes school in Liverpool in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
uin	222646
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/02/2019 answer text <p>Pre-16 school and academy funding allocations are published each financial year for all schools and academies and is available through the following links:</p><p>Information relating to ‘Academies Funding – Pre-16 funding allocations’, can be found at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/schools-block-funding-allocations" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/schools-block-funding-allocations</a>.</p><p> </p><p>Information relating to ‘Post 16 funding allocations’, can be found at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/16-to-19-education-funding-allocations" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/16-to-19-education-funding-allocations</a>.</p><p> </p><p>Additional grants may be applied to academies for specific purposes, and available data for these is published on GOV.UK.</p><p> </p><p>Information relating to ‘Pupil Premium allocations (financial year allocation)’, can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/search?q=pupil+premium+allocations" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/search?q=pupil+premium+allocations</a>.</p><p> </p><p>Information relating to ‘Teacher Pay Grant allocations’, can be found at: <br> <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/teachers-pay-grant-2018-to-2019-financial-year-allocations" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/teachers-pay-grant-2018-to-2019-financial-year-allocations</a>.</p><p> </p><p>Information relating to ‘Devolved Formula Capital (DFC) allocations’, can be found at: <br> <a href="https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/*/https:/www.gov.uk/government/publications/capital-allocations" target="_blank">https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/*/https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/capital-allocations</a>.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 21/02/2019 13:02:18 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson