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Students: Childcare

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of extending the eligibility for the Childcare Grant to include PhD students in receipt of stipends.

answeredDepartment for Education

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Answering body
Department for Education
Tabled
10 Oct 2025
Target answer date
20 Oct 2025
Answer
30 Oct 2025 · 20 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 10 Oct 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of extending the eligibility for the Childcare Grant to include PhD students in receipt of stipends.

  2. 20 Oct 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 30 Oct 2025

    Answer published

    The government introduced new support packages for students starting postgraduate master’s degree courses from the 2016/17 academic year onwards and postgraduate doctoral degree courses from 2018/19 onwards. These loans are not based on income and are int...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

Later records

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Postgraduate Education: Childcare

10 Nov 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the cost of extending the Childcare Grant to postgraduate students.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Home Education: Registration

13 Nov 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will take steps to send information to home educating parents on the registration measures within the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill.

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School Meals: Nutrition

3 Feb 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the environmental and health impacts of their School Food guidance in the context of the 2025 EAT-Lancet Commission; and how she plans to respond to the Commission’s P

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Students: Loans

4 Mar 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what discussions she has had with the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care on whether medical students will qualify for maintenance grants when these are reintroduced.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

School Milk

10 Mar 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 2 February 2026 to Question 108602 on School Milk, what steps her Department is taking to ensure schools and Local Authorities are aware of the expectation that they make reasonable ad

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

School Support Staff Negotiating Body

13 May 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what her Department's timetable is for responding to the Setting up the School Support Staff Negotiating Body consultation.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Foster Care: Finance

19 Jun 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Answer of 10 April 2026 to Question 126120, when her Department will publish further details on the scope of its in-depth study of fostering finances.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Holiday Activities and Food Programme: Children in Care

28 Aug 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the additional cost to the public purse of expanding the automatic eligibility criteria for the Holiday Activities and Food programme to include all care-experienced children, incl

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Adoption

28 Aug 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of (a) the adequacy of the number of approvals for people to become adoptive parents and (b) whether further steps should be taken to encourage more potential adopters to come forwa