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House of Commons Official Report Parliamentary Monday Volume 662 24 June 2019 No. 318 HOUSE OF COMMONS OFFICIAL REPORT PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES (HANSARD) Monday 24 June 2019 © Parliamentary Copyright House of Commons 2019 This publication may be reproduced under the terms of the Open Parliament licence, which is published at www.parliament.uk/site-information/copyright/. 447 24 JUNE 2019 Oral Answers 448 David Hanson: May I first take a moment to congratulate House of Commons you, Mr Speaker, on serving 10 years in the Chair? That is worthy of recognition. Monday 24 June 2019 Will the Minister give some indication of when the results of the consultation on the restraint of children will be published? The consultation closed in January 2018, The House met at half-past Two o’clock having commenced in 2017. When is it going to happen? Mr Speaker: I thank the right hon. Gentleman very PRAYERS warmly for what he has said. [MR SPEAKER in the Chair] Nadhim Zahawi: May I add my congratulations, Mr Speaker, on your 10 years in the Chair? Speaker’s Statement The consultation will be published very, very shortly. Mr Speaker: I must advise the House that last Friday Frank Field (Birkenhead) (Ind): When do the I received notification from the petition officer for the Government expect to announce a national free school constituency of Brecon and Radnorshire, in respect of dinner scheme for poorer children during the holidays, the recall petition for Chris Davies. The recall petition based on the successful pilots the Department has been process for the constituency of Brecon and Radnorshire, running over the past two years? established under the Recall of MPs Act 2015, closed on Thursday last at 5 pm. In total, 10,005 people signed the Nadhim Zahawi: I am grateful to the right hon. petition for the removal of Chris Davies as Member of Gentleman, who helped to make sure those pilots happened. Parliament for Brecon and Radnorshire. As this number We are investing £9 million in holiday activities and was greater than 10% of those eligible to sign the petition, food programmes. This summer, children in 11 local the petition was successful. Chris Davies has therefore authorities will receive healthy meals, learn about the ceased to be the Member for Brecon and Radnorshire, and importance of healthy eating and enjoy enriching physical the seat is accordingly vacant. He can no longer participate activities during the summer holiday. Decisions on the in any parliamentary proceedings as a Member of programme beyond March 2020 will be taken as part of Parliament. I shall cause the text of the notification to the spending review, but I certainly think it has been a be published in the Votes and Proceedings and in the great success. Official Report. [The notification will appear at the end of today’s Patrick Grady (Glasgow North) (SNP): I also proceedings.] congratulate you on 10 years, Mr Speaker. What is quite scary is that we have been here for four of them now. On Friday I had the pleasure of meeting Hillhead High School S3. They are taking part in the “Send my Oral Answers to Questions Friend to School” campaign, which talks about the right of children all over the world to access education under the convention. What steps is the Department taking to work with the Department for International EDUCATION Development on ensuring that the right to education we enjoy in this country is accessed all around the world? The Secretary of State was asked— Nadhim Zahawi: We work closely with other Departments. In fact, the permanent secretary of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child Department for Education has written to all other permanent secretaries to make sure that we deliver on 1. David Hanson (Delyn) (Lab): What steps he is our promise. Of course, we are making that commitment taking to ensure his Department’s policies are compliant across Government with the UN convention on the rights of the child. [911504] Angela Rayner (Ashton-under-Lyne) (Lab): All I can say on your 10th anniversary, Mr Speaker, is that you The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Education do not look old enough. (Nadhim Zahawi): I am sure colleagues have enjoyed the Article 23 of the convention guarantees the right to bevy of sport over the weekend, especially the tennis, education for children with disabilities, yet just this but I think we would all want to congratulate the weekend we heard how that basic right has become a Lionesses on winning 3-0 against the Cameroon and, of privilege, with parents forced to go to the courts to get course, on reaching the quarter-finals, where I hope support for their children. Years since the Prime Minister they will quickly dispose of the Norway option to get to promised to tackle the burning injustices, and just weeks the semi-finals. before she is due to leave office, they burn brighter than The use of children’s rights impact assessments is ever before. Can the Minister tell us when the Prime widely promoted across the Department and wider Minister and the Chancellor will stop haggling over our Government, and our assessment template is designed children’s future in the press and come back to this to help staff to give due consideration to the UNCRC House with a statement announcing the funding they so when making new policy and legislation. desperately need? 449 Oral Answers 24 JUNE 2019 Oral Answers 450 Nadhim Zahawi: As the hon. Lady knows, we have Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield) (Lab/Co-op): increased funding for children with special educational Mr Speaker, this is the limited edition Beatles “Magical needs and disabilities by £250 million, taking it to Mystery Tour” tie, which is very appropriate at this £6.3 billion. We have also introduced a system that stage in our parliamentary life. covers the ages from zero all the way up to 25, through May I say to the Minister that I do not want statistics? the 2014 reforms, and so many more children and The National Day Nurseries Association is based in my young people are eligible for education, health and care constituency and a Prime Minister many years ago plans, with rights of appeal. Inevitably, this leads to an prioritised “Education. Education. Education.” What he increase in the number of appeals, but the vast majority knows, and I know, is that early years stimulation is the of cases are handled without going to appeal—only most important priority of any Government, so why is 1.6% of them go to an appeal decision. As she will early years care so expensive for young couples and know, many local authorities have almost no appeals young women in this country, and why has the Minister whatsoever and we are attempting to learn from best not done something about it? practice and spread it throughout the system. Free Childcare Nadhim Zahawi: The numbers are important in this case and the 600,000 children benefiting from the 30 hours 2. Christian Matheson (City of Chester) (Lab): What in the first two years means 600,000 families who have recent assessment he has made of the effect of the been able to go out to work. Of course, 700,000 of the provision of 30 hours’ free childcare on the financial most disadvantaged families with two-year-olds have also benefited. Weare spending £3.5 billion on entitlements, viability of childcare settings. [911505] which is a record to be proud of. I should also mention The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Education the hon. Gentleman’s tie, which is very beautiful. (Nadhim Zahawi): The 30 hours’ entitlement has been a real success story for this Government, with an estimated Sir David Evennett (Bexleyheath and Crayford) (Con): 600,000 children benefiting in the first two years of the Does my hon. Friend agree that this Government’sreforms, programme. such as the 30 hours’ free childcare for three and four- year-olds, are helping more children to grow up to Christian Matheson: Nursery schools in Chester are develop their full potential, regardless of their background? closing and parents are being charged for extras just so that the nursery schools can make ends meet. Will the Nadhim Zahawi: I absolutely agree with my right Minister not accept that there are real problems with the hon. Friend. The parents whom I have met and with whom funding of this programme, and will he agree to review it? I meet regularly tell me that it has made an enormous difference. Parents who hardly saw each other are able Nadhim Zahawi: I thank the hon. Gentleman for his to work and to see each other and their child. One lady supplementary. We do keep a close eye in monitoring said movingly that her child came out of his shell the provider, the market and of course the cost base. because he was able to spend more time with children Under the early years national funding formula, our his age, too. average rates to local authorities are higher than the average hourly costs of providing childcare to three and Tracy Brabin (Batley and Spen) (Lab/Co-op): On four-year-olds, but he makes an important contribution, many occasions, the Minister has told us that what he in the sense that we have to keep an eye on the costs. really cares about is quality and sustainability. Will he Ofsted has essentially done the work; the number of explain how he is improving quality when the National childcare places has remained broadly stable since the Day Nurseries Association’s most recent data shows introduction of the 30 hours’ programme.
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