Asked by: Emma Little Pengelly (Democratic Unionist Party - Belfast South)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the cost to the public purse was of the 30 hour free childcare scheme in Scotland in the 2018-19 financial year.
Answered by Kemi Badenoch - President of the Board of Trade
The 30 hours childcare schemes are a devolved matter and the Department for Education has a remit for the 30 hours entitlement for England. Questions about schemes in Scotland and Wales should be referred to the devolved administrations.
Asked by: Emma Little Pengelly (Democratic Unionist Party - Belfast South)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many people used the 30 hours free childcare scheme in Wales in (a) 2017-18 and (b) 2018-19.
Answered by Kemi Badenoch - President of the Board of Trade
The 30 hours childcare schemes are a devolved matter and the Department for Education has a remit for the 30 hours entitlement for England. Questions about schemes in Scotland and Wales should be referred to the devolved administrations.
Asked by: Emma Little Pengelly (Democratic Unionist Party - Belfast South)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the cost to the public purse was of the 30 hour free childcare scheme in Wales in the 2017-18 financial year.
Answered by Kemi Badenoch - President of the Board of Trade
The 30 hours childcare schemes are a devolved matter and the Department for Education has a remit for the 30 hours entitlement for England. Questions about schemes in Scotland and Wales should be referred to the devolved administrations.
Asked by: Emma Little Pengelly (Democratic Unionist Party - Belfast South)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the cost to the public purse was of the 30 hour free childcare scheme in Wales in the 2018-19 financial year.
Answered by Kemi Badenoch - President of the Board of Trade
The 30 hours childcare schemes are a devolved matter and the Department for Education has a remit for the 30 hours entitlement for England. Questions about schemes in Scotland and Wales should be referred to the devolved administrations.
Asked by: Emma Little Pengelly (Democratic Unionist Party - Belfast South)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many schools in England provide a breakfast club.
Answered by Kemi Badenoch - President of the Board of Trade
The department is investing up to £26 million into the National Schools Breakfast Programme, using funds from Soft Drinks Industry Levy revenues. A contract was awarded to Family Action in March 2018 and will run until March 2020. Family Action, in partnership with Magic Breakfast, have both been named as the leading charities responsible for running the Breakfast Club programme. Together they have set up or improved more than 1,700 breakfast clubs across the country.
The department’s breakfast club provision is one of a number of available programmes open to schools. Across England there are a number of independent schemes already in operation either run by schools themselves or in partnership with charities and organisations such as Kellogg’s and Greggs.
The department does not collect figures on the total number of breakfast clubs in operation outside of our programme.
Asked by: Emma Little Pengelly (Democratic Unionist Party - Belfast South)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many weeks is the offering of 30 hours free childcare spread across the year.
Answered by Kemi Badenoch - President of the Board of Trade
We want parents to have access to a range of affordable childcare, giving them increased flexibility in their working hours and helping children thrive in the crucial early years. That is why the Department for Education is investing £3.5 billion in our early education offers this year alone.
The 30 hours childcare entitlement provides an additional 570 hours of funded childcare to working parents of 3 and 4 year olds across the year. The 570 hours are in addition to the 570 hours already provided under the universal 15 hours free childcare entitlement. While many providers will offer 30 hours of funded childcare per week during term time (38 weeks of the year), all free entitlements can be ‘stretched’ by taking fewer hours per week over up to 52 weeks of the year to cover both term-time and the school holidays.
To ensure that parents can make informed decisions on their choice of childcare, the department’s statutory guidance for local authorities states that providers should publish a statement of how they deliver the free entitlements and any additional charges they impose for optional activities outside of the entitlement.
Asked by: Emma Little Pengelly (Democratic Unionist Party - Belfast South)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 29 May 2018 to Question 145568, whether proposals have been brought forward for a GCSE in British Sign Language.
Answered by Nick Gibb
The Department and Ofqual, the independent qualifications regulator, have recently received an outline proposal for a GCSE in British Sign Language from the awarding organisation Signature. The Department and Ofqual are separately considering the proposal against the requirements for subject content and assessment respectively, which apply to all GCSEs.
Asked by: Emma Little Pengelly (Democratic Unionist Party - Belfast South)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what information her Department holds on the number of students aged between 11 and 18 who are studying in fee-paying schools in Northern Ireland.
Answered by Anne Milton
Figures on the number of pupils in independent schools in England are collected annually in the statutory school-level annual school census (SLASC). Figures from January 2017 by single year of age can be found in national table 1c of the statistical release ‘Schools, Pupils and their Characteristics’ available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-school-and-pupil-numbers.
As education is a devolved matter, statistics on schools are published separately by the four administrations. Therefore, figures on the number of pupils in independent schools in Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales should be requested directly from the individual administrations.
Asked by: Emma Little Pengelly (Democratic Unionist Party - Belfast South)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what information her Department holds on the number of students aged between 11 and 18 who are studying in fee-paying schools in Scotland.
Answered by Anne Milton
Figures on the number of pupils in independent schools in England are collected annually in the statutory school-level annual school census (SLASC). Figures from January 2017 by single year of age can be found in national table 1c of the statistical release ‘Schools, Pupils and their Characteristics’ available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-school-and-pupil-numbers.
As education is a devolved matter, statistics on schools are published separately by the four administrations. Therefore, figures on the number of pupils in independent schools in Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales should be requested directly from the individual administrations.
Asked by: Emma Little Pengelly (Democratic Unionist Party - Belfast South)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what information her Department holds on the number of students aged between 11 and 18 who are studying in fee-paying schools in Wales.
Answered by Anne Milton
Figures on the number of pupils in independent schools in England are collected annually in the statutory school-level annual school census (SLASC). Figures from January 2017 by single year of age can be found in national table 1c of the statistical release ‘Schools, Pupils and their Characteristics’ available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-school-and-pupil-numbers.
As education is a devolved matter, statistics on schools are published separately by the four administrations. Therefore, figures on the number of pupils in independent schools in Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales should be requested directly from the individual administrations.