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To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many (a) maintained and (b) private, voluntary and independent nurseries have closed in each quarter of the last five years.

Asked by

Maria Miller (Conservative)

Answering body

Department for Children, Schools and Families

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

8 April 2010

Reference

508 c1557W; 317742

House

House of Commons

Children: Day Care

To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what estimate he has made of the number of childminders to have entered the profession in each year since 1997.

Asked by

Maria Miller (Conservative)

Answering body

Department for Children, Schools and Families

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

10 February 2010

For answer on

22 February 2010

Answered on

8 April 2010

Information is not available specifically on the number of child minders who enter the profession. However, Ofsted have collected information on the number of registered child care providers and registered child care places available to children under eight years of age on a quarterly basis from March 2003.All information, including numbers of childminders, by local authority, is published on Ofsted's website and can be found using the following links:Information from 2008 onwards:"http://www.ofsted.gov.uk/Ofsted-home/Publications-and-research/Browse-all-by/Documents-by-type/Statistics/Childcare-and-early-years/Childcare-providers-and-places/Registered-childcare-providers-and-places-in-England-December-2008-onwards"Information between September 2006 and August 2008:"http://www.ofsted.gov.uk/Ofsted-home/Publications-and-research/Browse-all-by/Documents-by-type/Statistics/Childcare-and-early-years/Childcare-providers-and-places/Registered-childcare-providers-and-places-in-England-September-2006-to-August-2008"Information between March 2003 and June 2006:"http://www.ofsted.gov.uk/Ofsted-home/Publications-and-research/Browse-all-by/Documents-by-type/Statistics/Childcare-and-early-years/Childcare-providers-and-places/Registered-childcare-providers-and-places-in-England-March-2003-June-2006"In addition, Ofsted has published figures on child minders joining and leaving the register since November 2006, which showed figures for child minders joining and leaving the register between April 2005 and September 2006. These data are shown in each local authority's Early Years Statistical Profile, available via each local authority's page on the Ofsted website:"http://www.ofsted.gov.uk/oxcare_providers/list_by_la"With the introduction of the Early Years Foundation Stage in September 2008 Ofsted reviewed its publications and decided to incorporate data on providers joining and leaving registers in its regular quarterly publication on child care providers and places. Ofsted published these datasets together for the first time in January 2010, showing figures of providers joining and leaving the registers between 1 October 2009 and 31 December 2009:"http://www.ofsted.gov.uk/Ofsted-home/Publications-and-research/Browse-all-by/Documents-by-type/Statistics/Childcare-and-early-years/Childcare-providers-and-places/Registered-childcare-providers-and-places-in-England-December-2008-onwards"

Date

8 April 2010

Reference

508 c1557-8W; 317747

House

House of Commons

Children: Day Care

To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how much Ofsted received in registration fees from all child care settings in 2008-09.

Asked by

Maria Miller (Conservative)

Answering body

Department for Children, Schools and Families

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

8 April 2010

Reference

508 c1559W; 325316

House

House of Commons

Sure Start Programme

To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many Sure Start children's centres there are in each (a) parliamentary constituency, (b) region and (c) local authority area.

Asked by

Maria Miller (Conservative)

Answering body

Department for Children, Schools and Families

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

24 March 2010

For answer on

29 March 2010

Answered on

30 March 2010

Table 1 gives the numbers of designated Sure Start children's centres in each Government office region and table 2 the numbers of children's centres in each local authority area, at the end of February 2010.The numbers of children's centres in each constituency are not collected centrally.

Table 1: Designated Sure Start children's centres
Region	Number
East Midlands	306
East of England	396
London	543
North East	187
North West	459
South East	548
South West	313
West Midlands	374
Yorks and Humber	378

Table 2: Designated Sure Start children's centres
Region	Local authority	Number
EE	Bedford Borough	15
EE	Cambridgeshire	37
EE	Central Bedfordshire	22
EE	Essex	79
EE	Hertfordshire	76
EE	Luton	22
EE	Norfolk	53
EE	Peterborough, City of	15
EE	Southend on Sea	14
EE	Suffolk	48
EE	Thurrock	15

EM	Derby, City of	18
EM	Derbyshire	54
EM	Leicester, City of	23
EM	Leicestershire	41
EM	Lincolnshire	48
EM	Northamptonshire	49
EM	Nottingham, City of	16
EM	Nottinghamshire	55
EM	Rutland	2

LON	Barking and Dagenham	16
LON	Barnet	18
LON	Bexley	13
LON	Brent	14
LON	Bromley	18
LON	Camden	17
LON	Croydon	26
LON	Ealing	22
LON	Enfield	24
LON	Greenwich	24
LON	Hackney	19
LON	Hammersmith and Fulham	15
LON	Haringey	17
LON	Harrow	13
LON	Havering	13
LON	Hillingdon	12
LON	Hounslow	14
LON	Islington	16
LON	Kensington and Chelsea	8
LON	Kingston upon Thames	11
LON	Lambeth	28
LON	Lewisham	17
LON	London, City of	1
LON	Merton	11
LON	Newham	20
LON	Redbridge	14
LON	Richmond upon Thames	9
LON	Southwark	21
LON	Sutton	14
LON	Tower Hamlets	23
LON	Waltham Forest	17
LON	Wandsworth	23
LON	Westminster, City of	15

NE	Darlington	6
NE	Durham	43
NE	Gateshead	15
NE	Hartlepool	8
NE	Middlesbrough	13
NE	Newcastle upon Tyne	18
NE	North Tyneside	12
NE	Northumberland	20
NE	Redcar and Cleveland	12
NE	South Tyneside	12
NE	Stockton on Tees	11
NE	Sunderland	17

NW	Blackburn with Darwen	13
NW	Blackpool	13
NW	Bolton	18
NW	Bury	14
NW	Cheshire East	17
NW	Cheshire West and Chester	20
NW	Cumbria	22
NW	Halton	7
NW	Knowsley	15
NW	Lancashire	79
NW	Liverpool	26
NW	Manchester	40
NW	Oldham	16
NW	Rochdale	17
NW	Salford	16
NW	Sefton	15
NW	St. Helens	12
NW	Stockport	19
NW	Tameside	17
NW	Trafford	16
NW	Warrington	12
NW	Wigan	20
NW	Wirral	15

SE	Bracknell Forest	8
SE	Brighton and Hove	15
SE	Buckinghamshire	35
SE	East Sussex	35
SE	Hampshire	81
SE	Isle of Wight	8
SE	Kent	91
SE	Medway	19
SE	Milton Keynes	19
SE	Oxfordshire	44
SE	Portsmouth	16
SE	Reading	13
SE	Slough	10
SE	Southampton	14
SE	Surrey	65
SE	West Berkshire	10
SE	West Sussex	49
SE	Windsor and Maidenhead	7
SE	Wokingham	9

SW	Bath and North East Somerset	11
SW	Bournemouth	7
SW	Bristol, City of	24
SW	Cornwall	36
SW	Devon	43
SW	Dorset	23
SW	Gloucestershire	33
SW	Isles of Scilly	1
SW	North Somerset	13
SW	Plymouth, City of	17
SW	Poole	8
SW	Somerset	36
SW	South Gloucestershire	13
SW	Swindon	11
SW	Torbay	7
SW	Wiltshire	30

WM	Birmingham	75
WM	Coventry	23
WM	Dudley	20
WM	Herefordshire	12
WM	Sandwell	21
WM	Shropshire	18
WM	Solihull	14
WM	Staffordshire	54
WM	Stoke on Trent	16
WM	Telford and Wrekin	13
WM	Walsall	17
WM	Warwickshire	39
WM	Wolverhampton	18
WM	Worcestershire	34

YH	Barnsley	19
YH	Bradford	40
YH	Calderdale	16
YH	Doncaster	21
YH	East Riding of Yorkshire	19
YH	Kingston upon Hull, City of	20
YH	Kirklees	32
YH	Leeds	58
YH	North East Lincolnshire	14
YH	North Lincolnshire	12
YH	North Yorkshire	37
YH	Rotherham	22
YH	Sheffield	36
YH	Wakefield	23
YH	York, City of	9

Date

30 March 2010

Reference

508 c986-90W; 325026

House

House of Commons

Support for All: The Families and Relationships

To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how much funding has been allocated to rolling-out free bookshop book packs as announced in Support for All: the Families and Relationships Green Paper to date.

Asked by

Maria Miller (Conservative)

Answering body

Department for Children, Schools and Families

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

30 March 2010

Reference

508 c985-6W; 318386

House

House of Commons

Sure Start Programme

To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how much funding was allocated to Sure Start in each (a) parliamentary constituency and (b) region in each year since the programme started.

Asked by

Maria Miller (Conservative)

Answering body

Department for Children, Schools and Families

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

24 March 2010

For answer on

29 March 2010

Answered on

30 March 2010

[holding answer 29 March 2010]: The Department does not collect information by constituency. Sure Start allocations were made to local authorities. Each local authority is responsible for managing Sure Start activity across their area and will decide how much to spend in each constituency.The Sure Start funding allocated to each region since the programme started is given in Table 1 as follows.

Table 1. Sure Start funding allocations by Government office regions
	1999-2000	2000-01	2001-02	2002-03
	Revenue	Revenue	Revenue	Revenue	Capital	Total
East of England	20,043,508	31,518,124	37,437,420	49,485,557	2,042,587	51,528,144
East Midlands	14,297,582	24,441,880	33,402,830	37,874,539	1,704,998	39,579,537
Greater London	32,229,445	66,882,810	76,713,495	79,415,189	4,970,029	84,385,218
North East England	5,673,213	15,445,736	23,273,623	20,003,787	1,495,777	21,499,564
North West England	24,277,665	50,611,644	65,603,851	68,245,609	3,121,816	71,367,425
South East England	38,931,706	55,170,211	70,566,324	92,081,432	3,291,810	95,373,242
South West England	21,533,970	35,531,255	45,029,438	56,212,800	1,915,448	58,128,248
West Midlands	18,205,989	36,611,980	48,503,077	49,318,215	2,290,218	51,608,433
Yorkshire and Humber	16,368,967	36,578,882	48,095,722	48,142,976	2,126,564	50,269,540
Total	191,562,045	352,792,522	448,625,780	500,780,104	22,959,247	523,739,351

	2003-04	2004-06¹
	Revenue	Capital	Total	Revenue	Capital	Total
East of England	35,919,076	2,660,821	38,579,897	105,528,958	18,258,719	123,787,677
East Midlands	45,394,054	1,015,694	46,409,748	126,070,925	27,535,534	153,606,459
Greater London	102,705,690	6,065,398	108,771,088	287,237,921	68,644,344	355,882,265
North East England	56,562,964	1,848,490	58,411,454	143,187,025	29,948,724	173,135,749
North West England	105,938,322	2,110,147	108,048,469	284,689,005	71,249,942	355,938,947
South East England	51,796,246	1,843,397	53,639,643	153,230,897	22,620,266	175,851,163
South West England	42,591,345	1,650,528	44,241,873	117,284,366	20,986,070	138,270,436
West Midlands	64,606,486	3,605,196	68,211,682	181,065,306	47,298,847	228,364,153
Yorkshire and Humber	67,643,111	3,845,273	71,488,384	189,860,030	47,815,746	237,675,776
Total	573,157,294	24,644,944	597,802,238	1,588,154,433	354,358,192	1,942,512,625

	2006-07	2007-08
	Revenue	Capital	Total	Revenue	Capital	Total
East of England	78,484,923	27,883,222	106,368,145	91,841,007	56,157,959	147,998,966
East Midlands	82,463,531	22,398,077	104,861,608	92,299,850	47,272,341	139,572,191
Greater London	196,351,280	48,514,164	244,865,444	209,218,266	97,697,420	306,915,686
North East England	79,604,799	13,226,762	92,831,561	78,968,265	24,026,753	102,995,018
North West England	179,079,554	36,057,692	215,137,246	188,227,296	70,608,390	258,835,686
South East England	111,695,321	42,089,009	153,784,330	127,132,586	84,510,408	211,642,994
South West England	77,144,126	24,042,982	101,187,108	90,156,480	48,410,334	138,566,814
West Midlands	122,583,930	31,076,015	153,659,945	132,399,813	61,027,233	193,427,046
Yorkshire and Humber	120,307,067	26,966,653	147,273,720	132,950,458	54,977,589	187,928,047
Total	1,047,714,531	272,254,576	1,319,969,107	1,143,194,022	544,688,427	1,687,882,449

	2008-09	2009-10
	Revenue	Capital	Total	Revenue	Capital	Total
East of England	110,907,991	33,757,225	144,665,216	136,587,997	89,800,385	226,388,382
East Midlands	107,622,263	22,851,117	130,473,380	125,780,024	56,284,903	182,064,927
Greater London	249,018,438	56,339,417	305,357,855	295,535,902	129,447,114	424,983,016
North East England	88,813,114	14,113,402	102,926,516	99,713,407	26,769,768	126,483,175
North West England	210,782,279	38,538,278	249,320,557	238,241,709	75,123,233	313,364,942
South East England	154,203,724	50,892,500	205,096,224	190,672,412	122,711,970	313,384,382
South West England	102,620,863	31,022,746	133,643,609	121,853,824	66,455,147	188,308,971
West Midlands	153,281,531	28,949,795	182,231,326	175,695,599	69,132,240	244,827,839
Yorkshire and Humber	149,707,512	29,243,066	178,950,578	170,498,402	61,451,826	231,950,228
Total	1,326,957,713	305,707,546	1,632,665,259	1,554,579,276	697,176,586	2,251,755,862
¹ Local authorities received a two year allocation in 2004-06.

Sure Start Local programmes (SSLPs) were the precursors of Children's Centres. SSLP revenue allocations prior to 2003-04 are not readily available at a local authority level and are not shown in table 1 above. The expenditure for SSLP revenue from 1999 to 2003 is shown in Table 2 as follows.

Table 2: Sure Start Local programme expenditure by local authorities from 1999 to 2003
	1999-2000	2000-01	2001-02	2002-03
SSLP revenue expenditure	3,196,391	32,832,645	104,776,562	174,277,508

SSLPs were given multi year capital allocations from programme inception to the end of 2005-06. Therefore it is not possible to disaggregate allocations by financial year. The total SSLP capital allocation is shown in Table 3 as follows.

Table 3. SSLP Capital allocation from 1999-2006 by Government office regions
East of England	25,226,389
East Midlands	41,078,839
Greater London	88,741,966
North East England	61,642,396
North West England	85,947,406
South East England	30,979,684
South West England	31,684,627
West Midlands	50,505,885
Yorkshire and Humber	63,830,952
Total	479,638,144

Date

30 March 2010

Reference

508 c990-2W; 325027

House

House of Commons

Playgrounds

To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what progress has been made in the construction of the (a) 3,500 outdoor play areas and (b) 300 staffed adventure playgrounds referred to in the 2007 Children's Plan.

Asked by

Maria Miller (Conservative)

Answering body

Department for Children, Schools and Families

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

19 February 2010

For answer on

24 February 2010

Answered on

29 March 2010

[holding answer 24 February 2010]: Following the commitments made in the Children's Plan in 2007 and the national Play Strategy in 2008, every top-tier local authority in England has been receiving funding through the play capital investment programme since April 2009.Of the 152 top-tier local authorities, 30 are play pathfinder authorities and the remaining 122 local authorities are all play builder authorities. On average every play pathfinder authority receives around £2 million capital funding and £500,000 revenue funding over the current spending period 2008-09 to 2010-11. They will use this funding to deliver a minimum of 28 play areas plus a staffed adventure playground. The play builder authorities receive around £1 million capital and £45,000 revenue funding over the same spending period and will deliver a minimum of 22 play areas. The play areas that are delivered can be either completely new areas or existing areas which are significantly refurbished.Decisions on where the allocated capital funding is spent within local authority boundaries are taken locally, based on grant requirements which state that: improved play spaces must be provided where they are most needed, and as a result of a robust consultation process involving local children and young people, families and wider communities.The number of outdoor public play areas delivered by local authorities since the programme began in April 2008 is 1,152 and plans are well under way to ensure that the target of 3,500 play areas completed by the end of March 2011 is achieved. Of the 30 staffed adventure playgrounds, 20 are due to be delivered by the end of March 2010 with local authorities managing the impact of the recent extreme weather. The remaining 10 adventure playgrounds will be delivered by the end of March 2011.

Date

29 March 2010

Reference

508 c752W; 318417

House

House of Commons

Departmental Internet

To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what funding his Department allocated for establishing and maintaining www.beGrand.net in the last 12 months.

Asked by

Maria Miller (Conservative)

Answering body

Department for Children, Schools and Families

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

25 March 2010

Reference

508 c565-6W; 318285

House

House of Commons

Pre-school Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many two year-olds he expects to have participated in free early years pre-school entitlement by 2016.

Asked by

Maria Miller (Conservative)

Answering body

Department for Children, Schools and Families

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

25 March 2010

Reference

508 c575W; 318418

House

House of Commons

Support for All: The Families and Relationships

To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how much his Department allocated to deliver and maintain the online eligibility checker for parents as referred to in the Green Paper, Support for All: the Families and Relationships in the last 12 months.

Asked by

Maria Miller (Conservative)

Answering body

Department for Children, Schools and Families

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

25 March 2010

Reference

508 c588-9W; 318283

House

House of Commons

Children: Day Care

To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what payments the National Childminding Association has received from his Department in each of the last three years.

Asked by

Maria Miller (Conservative)

Answering body

Department for Children, Schools and Families

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

23 March 2010

Reference

508 c172W; 305263

House

House of Commons

Support for All: The Families and Relationships

To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how much his Department allocated for the publication and distribution of the Think Fathers best practice guide referred to in the Green Paper, Support for All: the Families and Relationships in the last 12 months.

Asked by

Maria Miller (Conservative)

Answering body

Department for Children, Schools and Families

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

22 March 2010

Reference

508 c97W; 318282

House

House of Commons

Support for All: The Families and Relationships

To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how much his Department has allocated for the publication and distribution of free parenting support booklets as referred to in the Green Paper, Support for All: the Families and Relationships.

Asked by

Maria Miller (Conservative)

Answering body

Department for Children, Schools and Families

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

22 March 2010

Reference

508 c97-8W; 318286

House

House of Commons

Support for All: The Families and Relationships

To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how much has been allocated to fund specialist relationship counselling services for families with disabled children as referred to in the Green Paper, Support for All: the Families and Relationships in the last 12 months.

Asked by

Maria Miller (Conservative)

Answering body

Department for Children, Schools and Families

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

11 March 2010

Reference

507 c457-8W; 318284

House

House of Commons

Foster Care

To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what estimate has been made of the number and proportion of local authorities which have a policy of considering friends and family as a first option when seeking foster placements for looked-after children; and if he will make a...

Asked by

Maria Miller (Conservative)

Answering body

Department for Children, Schools and Families

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

22 February 2010

Reference

506 c309-10W; 305292

House

House of Commons

Departmental Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how much funding has been allocated for (a) editorial resources for and (b) enhancing and developing the Sure Start website in 2009-10 and 2010-11.

Asked by

Maria Miller (Conservative)

Answering body

Department for Children, Schools and Families

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

13 January 2010

Reference

503 c1059W; 305339

House

House of Commons

Pre-School Education: Finance

(2) what funding his Department has allocated to the extension of the free entitlement to early education to two year olds who do not have such an entitlement at present in (a) 2009-10, (b) 2010-11 and (c) 2011-12.

Asked by

Maria Miller (Conservative)

Answering body

Department for Children, Schools and Families

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

13 January 2010

Reference

503 c1062-3W; 305278

House

House of Commons

Pre-School Education: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families (1) how much funding has been allocated for the purposes of extending the free early learning entitlement to two year olds from the most deprived households in (a) 2008-09, (b) 2009-10 and (c) 2010-11;

Asked by

Maria Miller (Conservative)

Answering body

Department for Children, Schools and Families

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

13 January 2010

Reference

503 c1062-3W; 305270

House

House of Commons

Pre-School Education: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many two year olds are receiving the free entitlement to early education; and what plans he has to increase the number of two year olds in receipt of the free entitlement to early education in each of the...

Asked by

Maria Miller (Conservative)

Answering body

Department for Children, Schools and Families

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

13 January 2010

Reference

503 c1063W; 305277

House

House of Commons

Foster Care

To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many and what proportion of children (a) fostered and (b) adopted were placed with (i) grandparents, (ii) other relatives and (iii) friends of the family in the last 12 months.

Asked by

Maria Miller (Conservative)

Answering body

Department for Children, Schools and Families

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

12 January 2010

Reference

503 c919-20W; 305368

House

House of Commons

	£
April 2007 to March 2008	1,804,136.00
April 2008 to March 2009	2,138,095.00
April 2009 to October 2009	1,117,350.00

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