Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 29 Nov 2017
Sanitary Products
"I am having a CupAware party here in Parliament in January. I agree that they are a fantastic sustainable solution, although they are not for everyone. Will the Minister join me at that CupAware party? Will she also join us at the period poverty march in Westminster on 20 December? …..."Paula Sherriff - View Speech
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Written Question
Tuesday 28th November 2017
Asked by:
Paula Sherriff (Labour - Dewsbury)
Question
to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much and what proportion of the proceeds from the soft drinks industry level will be allocated to (a) the PE and Sport Premium, (b) the Healthy Pupil Capital Fund, (c) expanding the opening hours of secondary schools and (d) providing healthy breakfasts for primary school pupils over each of the next two financial years; and what additional sums are to be allocated to those programmes from the public purse.
Answered by Robert Goodwill
The 2016 Budget announced funding for a number of programmes linked to the revenue from the Soft Drinks Industry Levy. The department will receive £575 million during the current spending review period, which will be used to:
- Double funding for the primary physical education and Sport Premium to £320 million a year from 2017. The Department for Education and the Department of Health contribute £100 million and £60 million per year to the premium respectively, with the Soft Drinks Levy funding contributing £415 million over the remainder of the current spending review period, table attached.
- Provide £100 million in 2018/19 for a new healthy pupils capital fund.
- Provide £60 million to other relevant projects, for example breakfast clubs (£26 million over the next three years) and essential life skills programme.
Expected revenue from the levy during the Spending Review period is £550 million for the UK as a whole. The total funding provided for these programmes in England is £575 million. In addition, the devolved administrations will continue to benefit in full from the Barnett formula arising from the levy-funded spending package announced at the 2016 Budget.
We announced in February 2017 that the healthy pupils capital programme will build on the government’s plans for schools to provide a longer school day, by changing the focus of the scheme to provide new facilities or improve existing ones to make it easier for a range of extra-curricular activities to be provided.
Written Question
Tuesday 28th November 2017
Asked by:
Paula Sherriff (Labour - Dewsbury)
Question
to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much funding her Department provided to the Union Learning Fund in each of the last two financial years.
Answered by Anne Milton
Funding for Unionlearn was previously provided by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) but following the machinery of government changes in 2017, this responsibility moved across to the Department for Education.
BIS provided Unionlearn with £14 million in the financial year 2015-16 and £12 million in the financial year 2016-17.
The department is providing £11.89 million funding in the current financial year and a further £12 millon in financial year 2018-19 and £12 million in financial year 2019-20.
Written Question
Tuesday 28th November 2017
Asked by:
Paula Sherriff (Labour - Dewsbury)
Question
to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to paragraph 4.23 of Autumn Budget 2017, how much her Department will provide to Unionlearn in each of the next two years.
Answered by Anne Milton
Funding for Unionlearn was previously provided by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) but following the machinery of government changes in 2017, this responsibility moved across to the Department for Education.
BIS provided Unionlearn with £14 million in the financial year 2015-16 and £12 million in the financial year 2016-17.
The department is providing £11.89 million funding in the current financial year and a further £12 millon in financial year 2018-19 and £12 million in financial year 2019-20.
Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 14 Nov 2017
International Men’s Day
"It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship this morning, Mr Austin. I congratulate the hon. Member for Stafford (Jeremy Lefroy) on securing this debate and on his very thoughtful and constructive speech. He gave me some food for thought regarding initiatives that I may want to explore further …..."Paula Sherriff - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 06 Nov 2017
Oral Answers to Questions
"17. What steps she is taking to support children with special educational needs. ..."Paula Sherriff - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 06 Nov 2017
Oral Answers to Questions
"It is over three years since the Minister’s Department introduced significant changes to the special educational needs system. Two reports in the past month provide a damning indictment of how these reforms are going: Ofsted says there are significant areas of concern in one third of areas; and the local …..."Paula Sherriff - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 13 Sep 2017
Higher Education (England) Regulations
"My hon. Friend is making an excellent speech. Does she agree that there is now evidence that students from less well-off families are graduating with significantly more debt than those from wealthier families, which is a direct threat to social mobility?..."Paula Sherriff - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 20 Mar 2017
Oral Answers to Questions
"In Dewsbury, 50 out of 50 schools will lose funding and not one will gain—the second highest number of schools facing cuts in any constituency. Thornhill academy, which many will remember from “Educating Yorkshire”, is set to lose more than half a million pounds, which equates to nearly £700 per …..."Paula Sherriff - View Speech
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Mon 06 Mar 2017
Workplace Dress Codes (High Heels)
"It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Hanson. I am grateful to my hon. Friend the Member for Warrington North (Helen Jones) for the powerful way in which she introduced the debate on behalf not only of the Petitions Committee, but of the more than 150,000 people …..."Paula Sherriff - View Speech
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