Shockat Adam MP: written questions
4 Jul 2024–3 Jul 2025
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Written questions
Neurodiversity: TrainingDepartment for EducationTabled 25 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 62919More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make it her policy to introduce mandatory neurodiversity training for all (a) teachers and (b) education staff.
Answer: The department is committed to improving support for all children and young people. Statutory Initial Teacher Training and Early Career Teacher induction training must cover adaptive teaching and special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), and this...
Answered 3 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordChildcare: Fees and ChargesDepartment for EducationTabled 19 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 61292More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to support the financial sustainability of nursery providers in the context of changes to free childcare entitlement.
Answer: The government’s Plan for Change sets out a commitment to give children the best start in life, breaking the link between background and opportunity. We want a record proportion of children (75%) to achieve a good level of development by the end of recept...
Answered 26 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordNurseries: CostsDepartment for EducationTabled 19 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 61291More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate her Department has made of regional variations in the cost of delivering nursery provision in England.
Answer: It is our ambition that all families have access to high-quality, affordable and flexible early education and care, giving every child the best start in life. This is key to the government’s Plan for Change, which starts with reaching the milestone of a r...
Answered 26 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordNurseriesDepartment for EducationTabled 19 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 61289More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what comparative estimate her Department has made of the (a) number of available nursery places and (b) demand for those places in England by region.
Answer: The government’s Plan for Change sets out a commitment to give children the best start in life, breaking the link between background and opportunity.Ofsted publishes data on the numbers of all types of providers joining and leaving the sector each year. S...
Answered 26 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordNurseriesDepartment for EducationTabled 19 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 61288More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many new nursery settings have opened in England in each year since 2018.
Answer: The government’s Plan for Change sets out a commitment to give children the best start in life, breaking the link between background and opportunity.Ofsted publishes data on the numbers of all types of providers joining and leaving the sector each year. S...
Answered 26 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordNurseries: ClosuresDepartment for EducationTabled 19 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 61287More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many nursery providers have closed in England in each year since 2018; and what data her Department holds on the reasons for those closures.
Answer: The government’s Plan for Change sets out a commitment to give children the best start in life, breaking the link between background and opportunity.Ofsted publishes data on the numbers of all types of providers joining and leaving the sector each year. S...
Answered 26 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordNurseries: Fees and ChargesDepartment for EducationTabled 19 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 61286More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment she has made of the adequacy of funding rates for early years providers offering free nursery places.
Answer: It is our ambition that all families have access to high-quality, affordable and flexible early education and care, giving every child the best start in life. This is key to the government’s Plan for Change, which starts with reaching the milestone of a r...
Answered 26 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordNurseries: Fees and ChargesDepartment for EducationTabled 19 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 61285More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate her Department has made of the average shortfall between Government funding and the actual cost to nurseries of delivering a funded nursery place.
Answer: It is our ambition that all families have access to high-quality, affordable and flexible early education and care, giving every child the best start in life. This is key to the government’s Plan for Change, which starts with reaching the milestone of a r...
Answered 26 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordNurseries: Fees and ChargesDepartment for EducationTabled 19 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 61284More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many free nursery hours were funded in each year since 2018; and what the total cost to the public was in each of those years.
Answer: Funding for the early years entitlements is based on part-time equivalent (PTE) hours. We define 1 PTE as 15 hours across 38 weeks a year (570 funded hours per annum).Early years entitlements funding is allocated to local authorities through the early yea...
Answered 26 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordNurseries: Fees and ChargesDepartment for EducationTabled 19 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 61283More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the average hourly funding rate provided to local authorities for the delivery of free nursery places in England was in each year since 2018.
Answer: It is our ambition that all families have access to high-quality, affordable and flexible early education and care, giving every child the best start in life. This is key to the government’s Plan for Change, which starts with reaching the milestone of a r...
Answered 26 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordDurham Commission on Creativity and EducationDepartment for EducationTabled 13 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 59935More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what progress her Department has made on implementing the recommendations of the Durham Commission on Creativity and Education.
Answer: In July 2024, this government established the independent Curriculum and Assessment Review, covering ages 5 to 18, chaired by Professor Becky Francis CBE.The Review seeks to deliver a rich, broad, inclusive and innovative curriculum that readies young peo...
Answered 25 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordAdoption and Special Guardianship Support FundDepartment for EducationTabled 30 May 2025AnsweredUIN 55919More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of changes to the Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund on children facing adoption breakdown.
Answer: I refer the hon. Member for Leicester South to the answer of 13 May 2025 to Question 49523.
Answered 4 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordCurriculum: Bosnia and HerzegovinaDepartment for EducationTabled 13 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 31605More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to Article 7 of UN Resolution A/78/L.67/Rev.1, if she will take steps to introduce observance of the International Day of Reflection and Commemoration of the 1995 Genocide in Srebrenica to the Na
Answer: Schools are free to decide which events to commemorate and what activities to put in place to support pupils’ understanding of significant events and particular months or days dedicated to specific historical events, such as the International Day of Refle...
Answered 28 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordGambling: EducationDepartment for EducationTabled 2 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 17340More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Department for Culture, Media and Sport's response to the Government's consultation on the structure, distribution and governance of the statutory levy on gambling operators, published on
Answer: Within schools, statutory relationships, sex and health education (RSHE) supports children and young people to make informed decisions in relation to their mental wellbeing and online behaviour. The RSHE statutory guidance is clear that children and young...
Answered 5 Dec 2024
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