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Written Answers — Home Department: Independent Safeguarding Authority (12 Nov 2009)

Maria Miller: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what key performance indicators have been established for the Independent Safeguarding Authority.

Written Answers — Justice: Offenders: Databases (11 Nov 2009)

Maria Miller: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what information on the dependent children of prisoners is held on the C-NOMIS database.

Written Answers — Children, Schools and Families: Families: Prison (9 Nov 2009)

Maria Miller: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families (1) what programmes his Department has to support the families of those who are in prison; (2) how many Sure Start children's centres have programmes in place to provide appropriate support for the families of those who are in prison.

Written Answers — Justice: Reparation by Offenders (9 Nov 2009)

Maria Miller: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what progress has been made in the implementation of reducing re-offending pathways.

Written Answers — Work and Pensions: Future Jobs Fund (4 Nov 2009)

Maria Miller: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how much of the Future Jobs Fund has been allocated to bids in (a) Basingstoke, (b) Hampshire and (c) England in 2009-10.

Written Answers — Work and Pensions: Recruitment: Finance (4 Nov 2009)

Maria Miller: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (1) how many employers have (a) applied for and (b) secured funding from her Department to recruit people who have been unemployed for more than six months in (i) Basingstoke, (ii) Hampshire and (iii) England; (2) what the cost to her Department has been of funding for employers to recruit people who have been unemployed for over six...

Written Answers — Children, Schools and Families: Primary Education (3 Nov 2009)

Maria Miller: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what percentage of children in primary schools linked to Phase One Sure Start centres achieved the national standard in each of their key stage 1 assessments in the last 12 months.

Written Answers — Children, Schools and Families: Departmental Female Staff (27 Oct 2009)

Maria Miller: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many and what proportion of his Department's senior civil service staff have been women in each year since the Department was established.

Written Answers — Children, Schools and Families: Children: Day Care (21 Oct 2009)

Maria Miller: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many and what proportion of childcare settings have (a) applied for and (b) been granted exemption from parts of the early years foundation stage.

Written Answers — Children, Schools and Families: Outreach Workers (19 Oct 2009)

Maria Miller: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families (1) how many outreach workers are expected to be employed through the £79 million expenditure for outreach workers up to 2011 announced by his Department; (2) how many outreach workers were employed in Sure Start Children's Centres in each quarter for which information is available; and what qualifications such workers...

Written Answers — Children, Schools and Families: Pre-school Education (19 Oct 2009)

Maria Miller: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what the estimated cost is of extending the free early education entitlement to 250,000 extra two year olds; and from which budget the funding will be provided.

Written Answers — Treasury: Tax Allowances (19 Oct 2009)

Maria Miller: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what the estimated saving to the public purse is from removing the employer-supported childcare tax and national insurance exemptions.

Written Answers — Home Department: Sexual Offences (16 Oct 2009)

Maria Miller: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many cautions have been issued for sexual offences in each of the last 10 years.

[Mrs. Janet Dean in the Chair] — Sure Start (15 Oct 2009)

Maria Miller: Will the Minister give way?

[Mrs. Janet Dean in the Chair] — Sure Start (15 Oct 2009)

Maria Miller: Will the Minister give way on that point?

[Mrs. Janet Dean in the Chair] — Sure Start (15 Oct 2009)

Maria Miller: Will the hon. Lady allow me to ask a question on the issue of outreach?

[Mrs. Janet Dean in the Chair] — Sure Start (15 Oct 2009)

Maria Miller: Will the Minister give way before she moves on?

[Mrs. Janet Dean in the Chair] — Sure Start (15 Oct 2009)

Maria Miller: It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mrs. Dean. I am pleased to follow the hon. Member for Mid-Dorset and North Poole (Annette Brooke), who brought a note of realism to our discussions. I do, however, congratulate the Minister on calling the debate. It is a pity that it clashes with such an important defence debate in the main Chamber. I am sure that if we were having this...

[Mrs. Janet Dean in the Chair] — Sure Start (15 Oct 2009)

Maria Miller: Perhaps I can make some progress before—

[Mrs. Janet Dean in the Chair] — Sure Start (15 Oct 2009)

Maria Miller: I think that I shall make a little progress before taking my first intervention from the Minister. In our policies on Sure Start, we are looking to sharpen the delivery of Sure Start and use Sure Start health visitors to do that as an integral part of Sure Start. I shall come on to that when I have made a few other comments. Before moving on to my main remarks, I need to cover the Minister's...