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Written Answers — Education: Childminding (16 May 2013)

Sharon Hodgson: To ask the Secretary of State for Education (1) whether he plans to offer financial incentives to encourage the formation of childminder agencies; (2) what representations his Department has received from child care experts in support of the creation of childminder agencies; (3) what (a) organisations and (b) individuals his Department has approached regarding the establishment of pilot...

Written Answers — Education: Children: Day Care (16 May 2013)

Sharon Hodgson: To ask the Secretary of State for Education what (a) organisations and (b) individuals his Department has approached regarding the establishment of pilot schemes for the relaxation of staff to child ratios in childcare settings.

Written Answers — Education: Children: Day Care (16 May 2013)

Sharon Hodgson: To ask the Secretary of State for Education (1) whether he has received representations from Ofsted in support of the relaxation of childcare ratios; (2) what recent discussions he has had with Ofsted and Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Education on the relaxation of childcare ratios.

Written Answers — Education: Children's Centres (16 May 2013)

Sharon Hodgson: To ask the Secretary of State for Education how many children's centres employed early years professionals as of (a) 6 May 2010 and (b) 6 May 2013.

Written Answers — Education: Pre-school Education (16 May 2013)

Sharon Hodgson: To ask the Secretary of State for Education (1) what representations he has received advocating the delivery of free nursery education by childcare providers rated as satisfactory without the involvement of the relevant local authority in ensuring good quality provision; (2) what representations he has received advocating the guarantee of an offer of funding for new early education...

Written Answers — Education: Pre-school Education (16 May 2013)

Sharon Hodgson: To ask the Secretary of State for Education what the average number of hours of free entitlement was for (a) two-year-olds, where offered, (b) three-year-olds and (c) four-year-olds actually used per child in each of the last five years.

Written Answers — Education: School Meals (16 May 2013)

Sharon Hodgson: To ask the Secretary of State for Education what plans he has to monitor the take up of school meals.

Written Answers — Education: Schools (16 May 2013)

Sharon Hodgson: To ask the Secretary of State for Education which schools other than academies and free schools have been visited by each Minister in his Department since May 2010.

Written Answers — Education: Children's Centres (15 May 2013)

Sharon Hodgson: To ask the Secretary of State for Education how many children’s centres provided on-site full daycare on (a) 6 May 2010 and (b) 6 May 2013.

Written Answers — Education: Children's Centres (15 May 2013)

Sharon Hodgson: To ask the Secretary of State for Education how many children’s centres employed qualified teachers as of (a) 6 May 2010 and (b) 6 May 2013.

Written Answers — Work and Pensions: Food Banks (14 May 2013)

Sharon Hodgson: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions whether his Department issues guidance to local authorities on engaging with food bank providers and donors to ensure adequate and balanced coverage in their area.

Jobs and Business (10 May 2013)

Sharon Hodgson: My hon. Friend is making a fantastic, powerful and moving speech. Is she aware of other cases like my constituent Michael Moore, who was classed as fit for work and died less than 18 months later, or was that an isolated case?

Jobs and Business (10 May 2013)

Sharon Hodgson: The hon. Member for Hendon (Dr Offord) has sat down a little earlier than I thought he would—and I was enjoying his speech so much! My constituents were looking forward to Her Majesty’s Gracious Speech, as they have looked forward to every Budget and autumn statement since this coalition assumed office. They have been looking for a sign that Ministers had abandoned government by...

Jobs and Business (10 May 2013)

Sharon Hodgson: I agree. There is obviously the unfairness, but there is also the fact that there was supposed to be legislation to protect football audiences from unscrupulous fans. Nothing stops any of those fans who might be able to get hold of that amount of money going along and ruining an amazing occasion such as the last match that Sir Alex will be in charge of. I certainly do not have any confidence...

Jobs and Business (10 May 2013)

Sharon Hodgson: As my hon. Friend knows, we introduced legislation to protect the Olympic tickets. It was a proviso of the International Olympic Committee that the country that hosted the Olympics must protect the tickets, and it worked very well. Although the tickets were really hard to get hold of, the allocation was made fairly and they did not go to the highest bidder. Later I shall mention Operation...

Jobs and Business (10 May 2013)

Sharon Hodgson: That is exactly the point, and it is well made. For the benefit of the House, I shall quote some highlights from Operation Podium’s report. It makes very interesting reading. It found that “due to the surreptitious way that large numbers of ‘primary’ tickets are diverted straight onto the secondary ticket websites, members of the public have little choice but to try to...

Jobs and Business (10 May 2013)

Sharon Hodgson: I listened with interest to what my hon. Friend said about the consumer rights Bill, to which I hope to contribute. Does he agree that this might provide a fantastic opportunity to address the disgraceful practices of the secondary ticketing market, which has now become industrialised ticket touting? Does he agree that we have a great opportunity to put fans first?

Public Bill Committee: Children and Families Bill: Clause 110 - Short title and extent (25 April 2013)

Sharon Hodgson: On a point of order, Mr Havard, following on from other hon. Members, I want to place on the record my thanks to you and your fellow Chair, Mr Chope, for the excellent way in which you both chaired the Committee. We seem to have been scrutinising the Bill for months—indeed, I think we have, but we had a recess in the middle to recharge our batteries, which was welcome; we then had to...

Public Bill Committee: Children and Families Bill: New Clause 57 - Breastfeeding at work (25 April 2013)

Sharon Hodgson: I apologise for interrupting my hon. Friend and I am sorry to have missed the beginning part of her contribution. This is an extremely important and useful new clause following on from the Equality Act 2010 introduced by the previous Government. As she will probably be aware, one of the important bits of that Act was to allow women who breastfeed to do so in public anywhere where they could...

Public Bill Committee: Children and Families Bill: New Clause 30 - Duty to assess and meet young carers’ needs for care and support (25 April 2013)

Sharon Hodgson: I agree with my hon. Friend, and I hope that the Minister was listening and will address her point in his response. I am sure that people will be busy getting that information to him as we speak. No-notice detentions are very worrying, especially for children who have not disclosed that they are carers. Later, for some of those very reasons, I shall come on to children who are under the...