Asked by: Tom Brake (Liberal Democrat - Carshalton and Wallington)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of children eligible for the 30 hours free childcare or education offer are in receipt of the offer in London.
Answered by Caroline Dinenage
The Government’s 30 hours’ childcare entitlement goes live from September 2017, so data on take-up is not yet available. However, in the London borough of Newham some children are already receiving a 30 hours place as part of our early implementation programme, which is testing innovative ways of delivering 30 hours and sharing good practice to support national roll-out starting in September.
Asked by: Tom Brake (Liberal Democrat - Carshalton and Wallington)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many civil servants in each unit of her Department are in the redeployment pool.
Answered by Caroline Dinenage
There are no civil servants in the redeployment pool.
Asked by: Tom Brake (Liberal Democrat - Carshalton and Wallington)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many local authorities are rated good for children's services.
Answered by Edward Timpson
29 local authorities are rated overall ‘good’ under the current Single Inspection Framework. However, not every local authority has been inspected under that framework.
Of the remainder, one is rated 'good' for overall effectiveness under the unannounced inspection of local authority arrangements for the protection of children framework and 18 are rated 'good' for safeguarding overall effectiveness under the safeguarding and looked after children inspection framework.
Asked by: Tom Brake (Liberal Democrat - Carshalton and Wallington)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if her Department will provide a London weighting to children eligible for the 30 hours free childcare or education offer.
Answered by Caroline Dinenage
The Government published its response to the Early Years National Funding Formula consultation, alongside detailed tables of allocations to each local authority, on
1 December. Allocations are made using the Early Years National Funding Formula, which includes an Area Cost Adjustment to reflect the differing costs of childcare in different parts of the country.
These documents can be found at: https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/early-years-funding-changes-to-funding-for-3-and-4-year-olds
Asked by: Tom Brake (Liberal Democrat - Carshalton and Wallington)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of which policy areas within her Department's remit will be affected by the outcome of the EU referendum.
Answered by Nick Gibb
The Prime Minister has been clear that the negotiation for Britain's future relationship with Europe will need to begin under a new Prime Minister. In the meantime, Departments continue working to deliver the Government agenda.
Asked by: Tom Brake (Liberal Democrat - Carshalton and Wallington)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential effect on the number of school support staff who are from non-EU countries of the salary threshold increase for Tier 2 visa applications to £35,000.
Answered by Nick Gibb
The requested information is not available. The Department does not collect data on the nationality or the immigration status of the school workforce.
This is a local matter for schools and all schools must employ members of the school workforce in accordance with employment law.