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To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of the £66 million in early years funding announced in the 2019 Spending Review will be allocated to maintained nursery schools.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of the £66 million in early years funding announced in the 2019 Spending Review will be allocated to maintained nursery schools.
It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, where the £930, 000 of non-recoverable funding in 2016-17 and 2017-18 for Academies Enterprise Trust has been allocated.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, where the £930, 000 of non-recoverable funding in 2016-17 and 2017-18 for Academies Enterprise Trust has been allocated.
The department can confirm that Academies Enterprise Trust (AET) used their funding in 2016-17 and 2017-18 for administration costs, such as the £930,000 non-recoverable funding being spent for central office staff redundancies and project management costs to transfer 4 academies to other academy trusts. The £3.58 million recoverable funding was spent towards academy level restructuring to reduce operational costs and support the trust’s reserves following the financial impact of transferring Cordeaux, Millbrook, Swallow Hill and Everest academies out of AET, and closing down Sandown Bay.
As a result of these restructurings, we expect AET to achieve an operational surplus in the financial year ending 31 August 2019.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the £3.58 million recoverable funding in 2016-17 and 2017-18 allocated to Academies Enterprise Trust has funded.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the £3.58 million recoverable funding in 2016-17 and 2017-18 allocated to Academies Enterprise Trust has funded.
The department can confirm that Academies Enterprise Trust (AET) used their funding in 2016-17 and 2017-18 for administration costs, such as the £930,000 non-recoverable funding being spent for central office staff redundancies and project management costs to transfer 4 academies to other academy trusts. The £3.58 million recoverable funding was spent towards academy level restructuring to reduce operational costs and support the trust’s reserves following the financial impact of transferring Cordeaux, Millbrook, Swallow Hill and Everest academies out of AET, and closing down Sandown Bay.
As a result of these restructurings, we expect AET to achieve an operational surplus in the financial year ending 31 August 2019.
T o ask the Secretary of State for Education, what criteria the Education and Skills Funding Agency used to assess the amount of funding required to support the Academies Enterprise Trust.
T o ask the Secretary of State for Education, what criteria the Education and Skills Funding Agency used to assess the amount of funding required to support the Academies Enterprise Trust.
A new Chair and CEO were appointed to the Academies Enterprise Trust during 2016-17 and they presented a comprehensive improvement plan to the department in early 2017. This plan was assessed by the Education and Skills Funding Agency to put in place a recovery process that underpinned education provision with strong financial management and oversight. This included improving governance of the trust, restructuring of central service teams, stronger financial and budgeting controls, reshaping school improvement structures and impact on educational outcomes. As a result of this assessment and supported by the National Schools Commissioner, additional funding was provided to the Trust.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what criteria (a) his Department and the Education and (b) the Skills Funding Agency use to assess the allocation of funding to academy trusts to protect the provision of education.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what criteria (a) his Department and the Education and (b) the Skills Funding Agency use to assess the allocation of funding to academy trusts to protect the provision of education.
The Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA) has a robust intervention strategy that fits within the overall academy accountability framework. Intervention is always proportionate, risk-based and built on funding agreement and academies financial handbook non-compliance.
Where the ESFA intervenes, we work with each trust to put in place a recovery process that underpins education provision with strong financial management and oversight. This can include the provision of funding, issuing a Financial Notice to Improve or, in the most serious cases, termination of the Funding Agreement.
Where the provision of funding is considered, this will be done on a case-by case basis, as part of our intervention with the trust.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment criteria is used by (a) his Department and (b) the Education and Skills Funding Agency to ascertain whether additional funding to protect the education of children is deemed (a) recoverable and (b) non-recoverable.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment criteria is used by (a) his Department and (b) the Education and Skills Funding Agency to ascertain whether additional funding to protect the education of children is deemed (a) recoverable and (b) non-recoverable.
The Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA) has a robust intervention strategy that fits within the overall academy accountability framework. Intervention is always proportionate, risk-based and built on funding agreement and academies financial handbook non-compliance.
Where the ESFA intervenes, we work with each trust to put in place a recovery process that underpins education provision with strong financial management and oversight. This can include the provision of funding, issuing a Financial Notice to Improve or, in the most serious cases, termination of the Funding Agreement.
Where the provision of funding is considered, this will be done on a case-by case basis, as part of our intervention with the trust.
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many letters his Department is planning to send regarding the ACM Cladding fund; and if he will publish the (a) names of the residential buildings and (b) constituencies in which those buildings are located that his Department...
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many letters his Department is planning to send regarding the ACM Cladding fund; and if he will publish the (a) names of the residential buildings and (b) constituencies in which those buildings are located that his Department...
We have now written to all building owners eligible for the private sector remediation fund. We are not publishing details which could identify buildings because of the risk to public safety.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will list for each multi-academy trust that has had deficit funding approved (a) the amount of funding approved, (b) whether it is linked to a financial turnaround plan, (c) the period it covers, (d) the date on which it was...
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will list for each multi-academy trust that has had deficit funding approved (a) the amount of funding approved, (b) whether it is linked to a financial turnaround plan, (c) the period it covers, (d) the date on which it was...
Academy trusts have primary responsibility for their own financial affairs and where the Education and Skills Funding Agency intervene, we work with each trust to put in place a recovery process that underpins education provision with strong financial management and oversight. This can include the provision of deficit funding, issuing a financial notice to improve or, in the most serious cases, termination of the Funding Agreement.
Where we have provided deficit funding as part of this process, this information is reflected in trusts’ accounts. Attached is a document setting out deficit funding information for the most recent year available, financial year 2017-18. The department records deficit funding by the academy that funding is associated with and this is also reflected in the attached document.
As of March 2018, the total number of academies for which deficit funding was agreed in financial year 2017-18, reflects less than 1% of all open academies, and less than 0.2% of the total funding allocated to academies for the 2017-18 academic year.
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, on what date his Department plans to write to building owners eligible for the aluminium composite material cladding fund.
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, on what date his Department plans to write to building owners eligible for the aluminium composite material cladding fund.
On 17 May 2019, we sent letters to all building owners eligible for the private sector remediation fund. We will continue to engage with building owners, managing agents, developers, local authorities and others to establish the fund.
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what criteria his Department is using to determine whether building owners should be sent a letter regarding the aluminium composite material Cladding Fund.
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what criteria his Department is using to determine whether building owners should be sent a letter regarding the aluminium composite material Cladding Fund.
The fund will include all high-rise (over 18 metres) residential private sector buildings with unsafe Aluminium Composite Material (ACM) cladding, except where a warranty claim has been accepted.
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps his Department plans to take in cases where building owners eligible for the aluminium composite material Cladding Fund do not apply within three months of being written to.
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps his Department plans to take in cases where building owners eligible for the aluminium composite material Cladding Fund do not apply within three months of being written to.
We are engaging with all relevant building owners to encourage swift applications. We are backing local authorities to take enforcement action where building owners are refusing to remediate high-rise buildings with unsafe cladding, including by establishing a Joint Inspection Team to support local authorities and give them the confidence to pursue enforcement action.
Urgent question on the Institute for Fiscal Studies report on Sure Start children's centres.
Urgent question on the Institute for Fiscal Studies report on Sure Start children's centres.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate he has made of the number and proportion of three and four year old children not accessing the funded early education offer by local authority.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate he has made of the number and proportion of three and four year old children not accessing the funded early education offer by local authority.
The information requested on 3 and 4 year old children not accessing funded early education is not held centrally.
Tables 2LA and 8LA of the ‘Provision for children under 5’ statistical release: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/education-provision-children-under-5-years-of-age-january-2018, shows the number and take up rates for 3 and 4 year old children.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the level of funding allocated to the married couples allowance in each year up to 2025.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the level of funding allocated to the married couples allowance in each year up to 2025.
There is no specific funding allocated to this relief, anyone who is eligible for Married Couples Allowance will receive it if they apply.
HMRC publishes the estimated cost of the Married Couples Allowance (MCA) for the years up to the current tax year in their “Estimated costs of principal tax reliefs” publication, available here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/main-tax-expenditures-and-structural-reliefs
The estimated cost of the MCA is:
£m | |||||
2013-14 | 2014-15 | 2015-16 | 2016-17 | 2017-18 | 2018-19 |
345 | 330 | 290 | 240 | 195 | 165 |
Estimated costs beyond 2018-19 have been modelled based on projections using economic assumptions consistent with the Office for Budget Responsibility’s October 2018 Economic and Fiscal Outlook. These extend as far as the tax year 2023-24, so this is the final year for which figures are provided.
£m | ||||
2019-20 | 2020-21 | 2021-22 | 2022-23 | 2023-24 |
130 | 105 | 85 | 65 | 55 |
All estimates are based on the 2015-16 Survey of Personal Incomes projected using economic assumptions consistent with the OBR’s October 2018 Economic and Fiscal Outlook.
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...
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...
The data requested is shown in the attached table.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 6 February 2019 to Question 217588, Academies Enterprise Trust: Finance, how much of the £4.5 million provided to date is non-recoverable; and how much of the £3.06 million used for redundancies is non-recoverable.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 6 February 2019 to Question 217588, Academies Enterprise Trust: Finance, how much of the £4.5 million provided to date is non-recoverable; and how much of the £3.06 million used for redundancies is non-recoverable.
£1.2 million of the £4.5 million provided to the Academies Enterprise Trust (AET) was provided as non-recoverable deficit funding. £646,443 of the £3.06 million earmarked for restructuring costs, which will include redundancy payments, was provided as non-recoverable deficit funding. The non-recoverable deficit funding provided has helped stabilise AET’s finances and support its long-term viability. AET is the largest multi-academy trust in the country responsible for over 60 academies and over 33,000 pupils.
The future of maintained nursery schools
The petition of parents, carers, staff and governors of Newtown Nursery maintained nursery school in Colne,
Declares that we are concerned about the future of maintained nursery schools in England after March 2020 as no guarantee has been given by government that adequate funding will continue...
The future of maintained nursery schools
The petition of parents, carers, staff and governors of Newtown Nursery maintained nursery school in Colne,
Declares that we are concerned about the future of maintained nursery schools in England after March 2020 as no guarantee has been given by government that adequate funding will continue...
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will publish details of the financial turnaround plan agreed between his Department, the Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA) and the Academies Enterprise Trust (AET), including (a) how much public money provided by the ESFA has been earmarked to fund...
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will publish details of the financial turnaround plan agreed between his Department, the Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA) and the Academies Enterprise Trust (AET), including (a) how much public money provided by the ESFA has been earmarked to fund...
Where trusts face financial difficulty, the Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA) may provide additional funding to protect the education of children. Interest is not charged on the revenue funding provided to trusts by the ESFA for these purposes.
The ESFA has agreed to provide up to £16.1 million in recoverable and non-recoverable deficit funding to support the turnaround plan of the Academies Enterprise Trust (AET), covering 2017-18 to 2020-21. AET is the largest academy trust in the country, responsible for over 60 academies. To date, we have provided £4.5 million, of which £3.06 million has been earmarked for restructuring costs, which will include redundancy payments. A repayment schedule for the recoverable funding has been agreed with AET and is due to commence in the 2019-20 academic year, subject to their ability to pay.
The ESFA is continuing to work with AET as it reviews the scope for financial efficiency; these plans are still under development. The Department is not aware of any plans for outsourcing AET staff.
The future of maintained nursery schools
The Petition of the parents, carers and staff of Grasmere Nursery School in Luton ; received 5 February 2019 .
Declares that we are concerned about the future of maintained nursery schools in England after March 2020 as no guarantee has been given by the Government...
The future of maintained nursery schools
The Petition of the parents, carers and staff of Grasmere Nursery School in Luton ; received 5 February 2019 .
Declares that we are concerned about the future of maintained nursery schools in England after March 2020 as no guarantee has been given by the Government...
The future of maintained nursery schools
I rise to present petitions on behalf of nursery schools across England, and will be joined by many colleagues. I thank them and nurseries across the country for their campaigning work.
Petitions presented today are on behalf of thousands of parents, teachers, governors and local people...
The future of maintained nursery schools
I rise to present petitions on behalf of nursery schools across England, and will be joined by many colleagues. I thank them and nurseries across the country for their campaigning work.
Petitions presented today are on behalf of thousands of parents, teachers, governors and local people...