Laura Trott MP: written questions
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Written questions
Nurseries: CostsDepartment for EducationTabled 2 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 17246More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the mean annual costs are for nurseries in England by (a) nursery class childcare settings, (b) maintained nursery schools, (c) school-based providers, (d) private group-based providers, (e) voluntary grou
Answer: Data collected by the 2024 survey of childcare and early years providers has been used to estimate the average unit costs of delivering childcare per child in a setting. This data can be found here: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/673b14b8f...
Answered 6 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordMental CapacityDepartment for EducationTabled 22 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 15691More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if her Department will take steps to increase the use of Deprivation of Liberty orders.
Answer: Depriving a child of their liberty must always be a last resort in order to keep the child safe. A growing number of children in England and Wales, often with complex behavioural needs, are being deprived of their liberty through Deprivation of Liberty Or...
Answered 2 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordOfsted: InspectionsDepartment for EducationTabled 22 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 15690More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she plans to publish an equalities impact assessment of the decision for Ofsted to no longer produce single headline grades.
Answer: On 2 September, the government announced that the use of single headline grades for Ofsted’s school inspection would end with immediate effect, and that a new system of report cards would be launched from September 2025. Single headline grades were overly...
Answered 27 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordOfsted: InspectionsDepartment for EducationTabled 22 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 15689More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she plans to publish an impact assessment of the decision for Ofsted to no longer produce single headline grades.
Answer: On 2 September, the government announced that the use of single headline grades for Ofsted’s school inspection would end with immediate effect, and that a new system of report cards would be launched from September 2025. Single headline grades were overly...
Answered 27 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordOfsted: InspectionsDepartment for EducationTabled 22 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 15688More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department has made an equalities impact assessment of the decision for Ofsted to no longer produce single headline grades.
Answer: On 2 September, the government announced that the use of single headline grades for Ofsted’s school inspection would end with immediate effect, and that a new system of report cards would be launched from September 2025. Single headline grades were overly...
Answered 27 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordOfsted: InspectionsDepartment for EducationTabled 22 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 15662More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department has made an impact assessment of the decision for Ofsted to no longer produce single headline grades.
Answer: On 2 September, the government announced that the use of single headline grades for Ofsted’s school inspection would end with immediate effect, and that a new system of report cards would be launched from September 2025. Single headline grades were overly...
Answered 27 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordChildren: Social ServicesDepartment for EducationTabled 22 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 15648More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to her oral statement on Children’s Social Care of 18 November 2024, Official Report, column 23, what estimate her Department has made of the cost of her proposed reforms.
Answer: The department published ‘Keeping Children Safe, Helping Families Thrive’ on 18 November, setting out our vision for reform to children’s social care. Our legislative proposals will keep families together and children safe, remove barriers to opportunity ...
Answered 28 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordCare Homes: ChildrenDepartment for EducationTabled 20 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 15286More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she will be taking steps to (a) improve the quality of children's homes and (b) increase the regularity of inspection of those homes.
Answer: As at 31 March 2024, there were 83,630 looked after children, which was similar to the previous year. The government has announced the following measures to ensure there are more of the right placements to meet the needs of looked after children:£44 milli...
Answered 27 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordChildren in CareDepartment for EducationTabled 20 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 15285More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to her statement of 18 November 2024 on Children’s Social Care, Official Report column 25, at what level she plans to cap profit from children’s social care placements.
Answer: As at 31 March 2024, there were 83,630 looked after children, which was similar to the previous year. The government has announced the following measures to ensure there are more of the right placements to meet the needs of looked after children:£44 milli...
Answered 27 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordChildren in CareDepartment for EducationTabled 20 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 15284More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to her statement of 18 November 2024 on Children’s Social Care, Official Report columns 23 to 25, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of the changes announced on the n
Answer: As at 31 March 2024, there were 83,630 looked after children, which was similar to the previous year. The government has announced the following measures to ensure there are more of the right placements to meet the needs of looked after children:£44 milli...
Answered 27 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordChildren in CareDepartment for EducationTabled 20 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 15283More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will take steps to increase the number of places for looked after children.
Answer: As at 31 March 2024, there were 83,630 looked after children, which was similar to the previous year. The government has announced the following measures to ensure there are more of the right placements to meet the needs of looked after children:£44 milli...
Answered 27 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordPupils: Mobile PhonesDepartment for EducationTabled 18 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 14646More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to ensure mobile phones are not a distraction in (a) primary and (b) secondary schools.
Answer: The department knows that using mobile phones in schools can lead to online bullying, distraction and classroom disruption, which can, in turn, lead to lost learning time. Schools are required by law to have a behaviour policy that sets out what is expec...
Answered 21 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordSpecial Educational NeedsDepartment for EducationTabled 18 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 14645More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many pupils have an (a) education, health and care plan and (b) a named school in each (i) region, (ii) local authority and (iii) constituency.
Answer: The requested information for each region and local authority is attached.Information on the number of all education, health and care (EHC) plans, and their named school is not readily available at constituency level.Information on the number of pupils in...
Answered 21 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordChildcare: Employers' ContributionsDepartment for EducationTabled 18 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 14644More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether increased costs from employer national insurance contributions will be taken into account in the childcare funding formula.
Answer: I refer the right Hon. member for Sevenoaks to the answer of 11 November 2024 to Question 12804.
Answered 21 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordUniversities: Employers' ContributionsDepartment for EducationTabled 14 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 14395More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of how much the increase to employers National Insurance contributions will cost universities.
Answer: The department is aware that higher education (HE) providers will have to pay increased National Insurance contributions. As my right hon. Friend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer set out in the Autumn Budget 2024, raising the revenue required to fund publ...
Answered 20 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordUniversities: Employers' ContributionsDepartment for EducationTabled 14 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 14394More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the increase in employer National Insurance contributions on universities.
Answer: The department is aware that higher education (HE) providers will have to pay increased National Insurance contributions. As my right hon. Friend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer set out in the Autumn Budget 2024, raising the revenue required to fund publ...
Answered 20 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordCurriculum and Assessment ReviewDepartment for EducationTabled 14 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 14393More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what her planned timetable is for publishing the recommendations of the Curriculum and Assessment review.
Answer: The timetable for the independent Curriculum and Assessment Review may be found in the terms of reference available here: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/66d196b7d107658faec7e3db/Curriculum_and_assessment_review_-_aims_terms_of_reference_an...
Answered 20 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordChildcare: Employers' ContributionsDepartment for EducationTabled 14 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 14324More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the impact of increasing employers National Insurance contributions on childcare costs for working parents.
Answer: I refer the right hon. Member for Sevenoaks to the answer of 11 November 2024 to Question 12804.
Answered 20 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordHigher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act 2023: Judicial ReviewDepartment for EducationTabled 14 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 14323More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the cost to the public purse of the judicial review of her decision to pause the implementation of the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act.
Answer: I refer the hon. Member for Sevenoaks to the answer of 18 November 2024 to Question 13264.
Answered 20 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordTax AvoidanceTreasuryTabled 30 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 11949More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 25 October 2024 to Question 9707 on Tax Avoidance, when she will provide an update on her policy on the Loan Charge.
Answer: The government announced at Autumn Budget that it will commission an independent review of the Loan Charge to help bring the matter to a close for those affected whilst ensuring fairness for all taxpayers. Further details about the review will be set out ...
Answered 5 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordSpecial Educational Needs: SwanleyDepartment for EducationTabled 24 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 11050More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Written Statement of 22 October 2024 on Mainstream Free Schools, UIN HCWS150, if the proposed new special educational needs school in Swanley is one of the schools to have their funding re
Answer: The department is reviewing mainstream free school projects, to ensure that they continue to meet localised need for places, offer value for money and are not to the detriment of the other schools in the local area. The review covers mainstream, centrally...
Answered 30 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordIntimate Image Abuse: Artificial IntelligenceMinistry of JusticeTabled 21 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 10154More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether she plans to introduce a criminal offence to prosecute individuals who create sexually explicit deepfakes.
Answer: This Government refuses to tolerate violence against women and girls, which is why our manifesto included a commitment to ban the creation of degrading and harmful sexually explicit deepfakes.We are looking at options to deliver this manifesto commitment ...
Answered 24 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordNon-surgical Cosmetic Procedures: LicensingDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 21 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 10153More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to respond to the consultation entitled The licensing of non-surgical cosmetic procedures in England which closed on 2 September 2023.
Answer: The Government is currently considering what steps may need to be taken in relation to the safety of the non-surgical cosmetics sector. The Government will set out its position at the earliest opportunity.
Answered 24 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordLocal Plans: FinanceMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 10 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 8472More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to Chapter 12, Paragraph 7, of her Department's consultation entitled Proposed reforms to the National Planning Policy Framework and other changes to the planning
Answer: Subject to the outcome of the consultation in question, further details on funding to enable eligible local authorities to progress their plans to examination quickly will be provided in due course.
Answered 15 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordPlanningMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 8 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 7852More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what her planned timetable is for publishing the revised National Planning Policy Framework.
Answer: The Government intends to respond to the consultation and publish revisions to the National Planning Policy Framework before the end of the year.
Answered 14 Oct 2024
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