Asked by: Lucy Powell (Labour (Co-op) - Manchester Central)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of children in receipt of the early years pupil premium achieved a good level of development in each year for which data is available.
Answered by Nadhim Zahawi
The information requested is not readily available and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Lucy Powell (Labour (Co-op) - Manchester Central)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of children in receipt of a funded place for disadvantaged two year olds are receiving that placement in (a) a PVI setting, (b) a childminder setting, (c) a maintained nursery school, (d) a nursery class in a school in each local authority area.
Answered by Nadhim Zahawi
The data requested is shown in the attached table.
Asked by: Lucy Powell (Labour (Co-op) - Manchester Central)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 9 April 2019 to Question 241041 on Pupils, how many secondary school children moved schools in-year in the last academic year.
Answered by Nick Gibb
The information is not readily available and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Lucy Powell (Labour (Co-op) - Manchester Central)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many individual (a) primary and (b) secondary children moved schools in year (i) twice, (ii) three times, (iii) four times and (iv) more than four times in the last academic year; and what information his Department holds on the pupil characteristics of children who have moved school in year on more than one occasion.
Answered by Nick Gibb
The information is not readily available and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Lucy Powell (Labour (Co-op) - Manchester Central)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate he has made of the number of pupils who have moved in year at (a) primary, (b) secondary and (c) further education level by local authority area in the last three years.
Answered by Nick Gibb
The information is not readily available and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Lucy Powell (Labour (Co-op) - Manchester Central)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what data his Department collects on the effectiveness of early years early intervention strategies in (a) Greater Manchester and (b) the North West.
Answered by Nadhim Zahawi
I refer the hon. Member for Washington and Sunderland West and the hon. Member for Manchester Central to the answer I gave on 01 April 2019 to question 237114.
Asked by: Lucy Powell (Labour (Co-op) - Manchester Central)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will publish (a) which local authorities underspent their early years block allocations, (b) the amount of each such underspend and (c) the amount and proportion of each such underspend which was transferred to the High Needs block in each of the last three years.
Answered by Nadhim Zahawi
Information is published on local authorities’ expenditure and the allocations made to them by the department. We do not currently publish any specific data about underspends. The Education and Skills Funding Agency publish information provided by local authorities on their total dedicated schools grant (DSG) actual expenditure, including early years block, through Section 251 outturn returns:
2015-16: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/section-251-2015-to-2016#section-251-benchmarking-data.
2016-17: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/section-251-2016-to-2017#section-251-outturn-data.
2017-18: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/section-251-2017-to-2018.
The outturn data for 2018-19 will be available in December 2019.
The department’s final DSG funding allocation to local authorities for the early years block can be found here:
2015-16: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dedicated-schools-grant-dsg-2015-to-2016.
2016-17: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dedicated-schools-grant-dsg-2016-to-2017.
2017-18: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dedicated-schools-grant-dsg-2017-to-2018.
Asked by: Lucy Powell (Labour (Co-op) - Manchester Central)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will place in the Library a copy of correspondence in the last year between Ofqual and universities on International GCSEs.
Answered by Nick Gibb
This is a matter for Ofqual, the Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation. I have asked its Chief Regulator, Sally Collier, to write directly to the hon. Member and a copy of her reply will be placed in the Libraries of both Houses.
Asked by: Lucy Powell (Labour (Co-op) - Manchester Central)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when he plans to announce the successful applicants for Wave 13 of the Free School programme.
Answered by Nadhim Zahawi
Successful applications for wave 13 of the free schools programme will be announced in spring 2019.
Asked by: Lucy Powell (Labour (Co-op) - Manchester Central)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when a review of the operation of section 5C (Children's centres: advisory boards) Childcare Act 2006 was last undertaken; and if he will publish good practice on the operation of Advisory Boards.
Answered by Nadhim Zahawi
The department published statutory guidance in April 2013 that sets out clearly what local authorities must do to meet the legal requirements in section 5 of the Childcare Act (2006), which is available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/sure-start-childrens-centres. This includes guidance on advisory boards and facilitating access to services for young children and their families. It is up to local authorities to decide exactly how to meet these legal requirements depending on local circumstances.
The department is engaging with the sector to find out ‘what works’ and to support local areas to make the right decisions for their communities. We are investing £8.5 million in a local government programme to spread good practice, grow the evidence base and help councils looking to improve outcomes for disadvantaged children and their peers. Good practice from this programme will include, but not be limited to, how children’s centres are being used to deliver effective integrated early childhood services.
We will be spending around £6 billion a year on childcare support in 2019-20 – a record amount. This includes funding for our free early education entitlements, on which we plan to spend around £3.5 billion this year alone.