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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.

Economic Growth (15 May 2013) See 3 other results from this debate

...Griffith Andrew Gwynne Mr Peter Hain David Hamilton Fabian Hamilton Mr David Hanson Ms Harriet Harman Tom Harris John Healey Mark Hendrick Stephen Hepburn Meg Hillier Julie Hilling Margaret Hodge Sharon Hodgson Kate Hoey Jim Hood Kelvin Hopkins Stewart Hosie Mr George Howarth Tristram Hunt Huw Irranca-Davies Glenda Jackson Cathy Jamieson Dan Jarvis Alan Johnson Diana Johnson Graham Jones...

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.

Cost of Living (14 May 2013)

...Goggins Helen Goodman Tom Greatrex Kate Green Nia Griffith Andrew Gwynne David Hamilton Fabian Hamilton Mr David Hanson Ms Harriet Harman Mark Hendrick Stephen Hepburn Meg Hillier Margaret Hodge Sharon Hodgson Kate Hoey Jim Hood Kelvin Hopkins Stewart Hosie Tristram Hunt Huw Irranca-Davies Glenda Jackson Cathy Jamieson Dan Jarvis Alan Johnson Diana Johnson Graham Jones Helen Jones Kevan...

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) See 5 other results from this debate

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?

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...

Growth and Infrastructure Bill: Railways (25 April 2013)

...Tom Greatrex Kate Green Lilian Greenwood Nia Griffith Andrew Gwynne Mr Peter Hain David Hamilton Fabian Hamilton Ms Harriet Harman Tom Harris Dai Havard John Healey Mark Hendrick Meg Hillier Margaret Hodge Sharon Hodgson Kate Hoey Philip Hollobone Kelvin Hopkins Stewart Hosie Mr George Howarth Tristram Hunt Huw Irranca-Davies Glenda Jackson Cathy Jamieson Dan Jarvis Diana Johnson Graham...

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) See 3 other results from this clause

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...

Public Bill Committee: Children and Families Bill: New Clause 18 - Information sharing about live births (25 April 2013) See 2 other results from this clause

Sharon Hodgson: I listened carefully to the Minister’s response. She said a lot of things that I was pleased to hear, not least her last statement about the progress that seems to have been made, the meetings between the hon. Member for South Northamptonshire and officials, and how we do not need legislation for the pilots to go  ahead. I am encouraged to hear that they may come to fruition. The...

Public Bill Committee: Children and Families Bill: New Clause 25 - Children and young people temporarily unable to attend mainstream school (25 April 2013) See 2 other results from this clause

Sharon Hodgson: I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time. I have spoken several times about children and young people who miss out on chunks of their education because, for a variety of reasons, they are not able to attend school. I know that the all-party group on bullying, which is led by the noble Baroness Brinton and my hon. Friend the Member for Huddersfield (Mr Sheerman), has raised the...