Written questions
2,582 written questions tabled, most recent first.
11 Nov 2016 · Department for Education
Pre-school Education: Fees and Charges
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if her Department will take steps to prevent early years settings charging retainer fees to parents hoping to secure Government funded nursery places for their children.
8 Nov 2016 · Department for Education
Children: Day Care
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the financial effect on childcare providers of the grace period proposed by the Government's publication, 30 hour free childcare entitlement: delivery mode, Government consultati
8 Nov 2016 · Department for Education
Children: Day Care
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the potential effect of the introduction of the 30-hour free childcare entitlement on sessional early years provision in rural areas.
8 Nov 2016 · Department for Education
Education: Capital Investment
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how her Department defines areas with the greatest sufficiency challenge in allocating resources from the capital grants fund.
8 Nov 2016 · Department for Education
Children: Day Care
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department has taken to assess the potential cost to local authorities of implementing new IT systems to enable the move to the monthly payment system proposed in the Government's publication, 30
8 Nov 2016 · Department for Education
Children: Day Care
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much her Department is making available through the capital grants fund to support the delivery of the 30 hour free childcare entitlement.
8 Nov 2016 · Department for Education
Children: Day Care
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what timescale she has set for the publication of the independent evaluation into the early implementation phase of the 30 hour free childcare entitlement.
8 Nov 2016 · Department for Education
Children: Day Care
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will publish the contract she has signed with Childcare Works to ensure that local authorities and childcare providers are ready for the roll-out of the 30 hour free childcare entitlement.
7 Nov 2016 · Department for Education
Pre-school Education: Vacancies
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential effect of recruitment shortages in early years education on the Government's commitment to provide parents with 30 hours free childcare.
3 Nov 2016 · Department for Education
Children: Day Care
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much funding her Department has allocated to the Early Years Capital Fund in each of the next three financial years.
3 Nov 2016 · Department for Education
Childminding
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, which agency has assumed the role formerly performed by 4Children of providing on-going support to organisations seeking to become childminder agencies.
3 Nov 2016 · Department for Education
Children: Day Care
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what information her Department holds on the number of agency workers employed in childcare settings.
3 Nov 2016 · Department for Education
Children: Day Care
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the extent to which childcare providers meet the full cost of providing Government-funded childcare places through cross-subsidy from users paying for private childcare places in
3 Nov 2016 · Department for Education
Children: Day Care
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the full cost of providing 30 hours of free childcare per week in a typical sized childcare setting.
3 Nov 2016 · Department for Education
Pre-school Education: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential effect of increases in inflation on the new early years national funding formula.
26 Oct 2016 · Department for Education
Children: Day Care
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will outline the methodology for evaluating the eight pilot schemes that are assessing the capacity of childcare providers to operate under new early years' funding rates.
26 Oct 2016 · Department for Education
Children: Day Care
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she has taken to ensure that local authorities are aware of their statutory duty to ensure that childcare providers charge for any goods or services, this is not a condition of children accessing a f
26 Oct 2016 · Department for Education
Pre-school Education: Staff
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to increase the number of qualified early years staff in preparation for the proposed changes to entitlement to free childcare places.
26 Oct 2016 · Department for Education
Children: Day Care
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if her Department will publish the data that it is using to measure the effect of the free childcare entitlement on disadvantaged children.
26 Oct 2016 · Department for Education
Children: Day Care
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she has taken to ensure that local authorities are aware of their duty to provide sufficient accessible information to parents on their entitlement to free childcare.
26 Oct 2016 · Department for Education
Children: Day Care
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she has taken to ensure that local authorities are updating and improving access to their Family Information Service in preparation for introduction of the new childcare entitlement.
26 Oct 2016 · Department for Education
Teachers: Training
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many trainees were recruited to the National College of Teaching and Leadership's teacher training programme in each year since that programme was introduced.
26 Oct 2016 · Department for Education
Children: Day Care
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if her Department will publish the data that it is using to measure the effectiveness of the free childcare entitlement in increasing the employment rates of parents.
26 Oct 2016 · Department for Education
Children: Day Care
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the cost to her Department was of commissioning Frontier Economics to develop a framework for measuring the impact of the new entitlement for free childcare.
26 Oct 2016 · Department for Education
Department for Education: Staff
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many staff in her Department are engaged in measuring the effect of the new entitlement for free early years education and childcare.
26 Oct 2016 · Department for Education
Children: Day Care
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she has taken to ensure that all local authorities are aware of their duty to clarify the complaints procedure for parents in relation to their entitlement to free childcare.
26 Oct 2016 · Department for Education
Children: Day Care
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many childcare providers have breached her Department's statutory guidance issued in September 2014 that states that providers which charge for goods or services do not make this a condition of children acc
26 Oct 2016 · Department for Education
Children: Day Care
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what mechanisms her Department has for ensuring that local authorities manage their childcare funding effectively.
26 Oct 2016 · Department for Education
Children: Day Care
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of funding from her Department for free childcare is retained by each local authority for central services.
26 Oct 2016 · Department for Education
Children: Day Care
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent evaluation she has made of the capacity of childcare providers to provide 30 hours of free childcare from the eight pilot schemes that are piloting the new childcare entitlement; and if she will mak
Source: official written-questions record.