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819032

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	Wakefield City Academies Trust
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the oral contribution of the Minister for School Standards on the 6 November 2017, Official Report, column 1178, whether the resources and support provided includes the return of reserves that were transferred from schools to Wakefield City Academies Trust before its collapse.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	121709
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2018 answer text <p>Wakefield City Academies Trust has chosen to take a trust-wide perspective of its finances, and is working with the Department for Education to ensure all 21 academies transfer to incoming trusts in a way that secures the financial future for each school and the education of their pupils. We are working with all of the schools and the preferred new trusts to determine appropriate support and resources, including funding, so that each of the schools has what is required to improve pupil outcomes. Our priority is to transfer the schools to trust that will be able to ensure every child receives an excellent education.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 15/01/2018 17:50:04 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

819121

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	Academies: School Meals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what percentage of academies founded between January 2010 and June 2014 have voluntarily signed up to the national school food standards.
tabling member constituency	Bristol East
tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
uin	121798
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2018 answer text <p>Statutory School Food Standards apply to local authority maintained schools, academies that opened prior to September 2010 and academies and free schools in England entering into a funding agreement from June 2014.</p><p>All new academies are expected to meet the food standards. Over 1400 academies, founded between September 2010 and June 2014, are voluntarily following the standards and we encourage the remaining schools to commit to them.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 15/01/2018 17:49:25 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy

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

816673

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 and what proportion of officials in her Department took sick leave for reasons relating to stress in the last year; and what proportion of total sick leave in her Department that leave was.
tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
tabling member printed	Tom Brake
uin	121100
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 121103 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

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

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

816907

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	Free School Meals
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 families that will become ineligible for free school meals as a result of proposed changes to the net earnings threshold and how many of those families would benefit financially by reducing their income in order to receive free school meals.
tabling member constituency	Washington and Sunderland West
tabling member printed	Mrs Sharon Hodgson
uin	121334
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2018 answer text <p>We are currently consulting on proposals for free school meals eligibility under Universal Credit. We will consider the responses to the consultation carefully and will continue to refine our analysis as our policy on this matter develops.</p><p>Currently around 1.1 million of the most disadvantaged children are eligible for and claim a free nutritious meal. This government provides significant funding to ensure the most disadvantaged children receive free school meals. Under our proposals, no existing recipients of free school meals should lose their entitlement following the introduction of new eligibility criteria. We have proposed protection arrangements to ensure that every pupil who is eligible and receiving free school meals at the point at which the criteria are changed (or any claimants who gain free school meals during the rollout of Universal Credit) should be protected against losing their meals whilst Universal Credit is fully rolled out nationally. In addition, any protected pupils who are still receiving free school meals once the Universal Credit transition is complete would continue to receive protection until the end of their current phase of education.</p><p>Under our proposed net earnings threshold, we estimate that around 50,000 more children will become entitled to free school meals than at present, enabling us to target support towards a greater number of families on low incomes. It is right that we make sure that free school meals reach children from the most disadvantaged families, and we are consulting on this issue to make sure that this is the case.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 15/01/2018 17:47:56 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	1521 label Biography information for Mrs Sharon Hodgson

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