Kemi Badenoch: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that local authorities provide adequate leisure and recreational facilities for people with learning disabilities.
Kemi Badenoch: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of a national definition for rural crime.
Kemi Badenoch: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of removing VAT from social care after the UK leaves the EU.
Kemi Badenoch: The Department for Education has indicated that it will not be possible to answer this question within the usual time period. An answer is being prepared and will be provided as soon as it is available.
Kemi Badenoch: The Department for Education has indicated that it will not be possible to answer this question within the usual time period. An answer is being prepared and will be provided as soon as it is available.
Kemi Badenoch: The information requested is not held centrally. Investors in People is responsible for awarding the Investors in People standard. Since 1 February 2017 this has been a Community Interest Company, which is not part of the government.
Kemi Badenoch: On 25 July 2019, Bright Tribe Trust and Adventure Learning Academies Trust filed their acocunts for the financial year to 31 August 2018.
Kemi Badenoch: I refer the hon. Member to the answers given by my hon. Friend, the former Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Education (Nadhim Zahawi) on 20 June 2019 to Question 265464.
Kemi Badenoch: The department is currently considering the results of a public consultation on new security guidance for schools and colleges, with the intention of publishing this later in the year. We will publish the department’s response to the consultation at the same time we publish the guidance.
Kemi Badenoch: The information requested is not held centrally.
Kemi Badenoch: The 30 hours childcare schemes are a devolved matter and the Department for Education has a remit for the 30 hours entitlement for England. Questions about schemes in Scotland and Wales should be referred to the devolved administrations.
Kemi Badenoch: There is no specific ban on ‘smacking’ children in England.
Kemi Badenoch: Next year local authorities, including Stoke-on-Trent City Council, will share in an increase of more than £700 million in higher-needs funding. We will hold separate discussions with the authorities that have raised specific issues with us.
Kemi Badenoch: I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his question, which gives me another opportunity to let everyone know that the Government have announced an additional £14 billion for schools over the next three years, including the £700 million of high-needs funding for special educational needs and disabilities that we have been discussing.
Kemi Badenoch: Members on both sides of the House care very much about this area. The Government continue to support families with their childcare costs, and we are now spending more than £3.6 billion on support to 2021.
Kemi Badenoch: It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.
Kemi Badenoch: It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.
Kemi Badenoch: It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.
Kemi Badenoch: It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation
Kemi Badenoch: It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.