Laura Trott MP: written questions
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Written questions
Internet: ChildrenDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 20 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 93217More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps he is taking to support parents to manage children's levels of screen time.
Answer: Parents and carers play a vital role in online safety.The UK Chief Medical Officer’s 2019 commentary on screen-based activities included advice for parents and carers on agreeing boundaries with children and young people on time spent using screens outsid...
Answered 26 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordChildren: InternetDepartment for EducationTabled 20 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 93216More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of using evidence-based parenting programmes, like Triple P and Incredible Years, to ensure more families receive more support to manage their children’s onl
Answer: As part of our ‘Giving every child the best start in life’ strategy, the department is investing in evidence-based parenting and home learning environment interventions delivered through Best Start Family Hubs. These interventions are designed to strength...
Answered 5 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordPre-school EducationDepartment for EducationTabled 22 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 69879More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department plans to take to ensure that school-based nurseries opened as a result of the school-based nursery grant are supplementing PVI setting provision.
Answer: High quality early years is central to our mission to break down the barriers to opportunity and give every child the best possible start in life and is essential to our Plan for Change. The government is boosting availability and access through the schoo...
Answered 3 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordSchools: NurseriesDepartment for EducationTabled 22 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 69878More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many applicants for school-based nurseries have served notices to quit to PVI settings operating on their premises in the last two years.
Answer: High quality early years is central to our mission to break down the barriers to opportunity and give every child the best possible start in life and is essential to our Plan for Change. This government is boosting availability and access through the scho...
Answered 3 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordSchools: NurseriesDepartment for EducationTabled 22 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 69877More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of banning schools who have evicted PVI settings from their premises in the last two years in order to apply for the school-based nursery grant from future
Answer: High quality early years is central to our mission to break down the barriers to opportunity and give every child the best possible start in life and is essential to our Plan for Change. This government is boosting availability and access through the scho...
Answered 2 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordSchools: NurseriesDepartment for EducationTabled 22 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 69876More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she plans to take to prevent schools removing PVI settings operating on their premises in order to apply for future expansions of the school-based nursery grant.
Answer: High quality early years is central to our mission to break down the barriers to opportunity and give every child the best possible start in life and is essential to our Plan for Change. This government is boosting availability and access through the scho...
Answered 2 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordWork Experience: Young PeopleDepartment for EducationTabled 21 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 69417More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to ensure the effective delivery of two weeks’ worth of work experience for every young person, in the context of business operational constraints.
Answer: Employers that offer high quality work experience opportunities see direct business benefits, from a more diverse future pipeline of talent, which helps to address local and national economic needs.The department is piloting a new model of work experience...
Answered 2 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordSchools: Breakfast ClubsDepartment for EducationTabled 15 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 67985More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many of the schools that started the breakfast club pilot scheme on 22 April 2025 have withdrawn; and for what reason each withdrew.
Answer: The first term of free breakfast clubs has already served two million breakfasts and parents, pupils and teachers are seeing the positive benefits this has to the school day.This is part of a test and learn phase in advance of national rollout. This is a ...
Answered 23 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordPre-school Education: StaffDepartment for EducationTabled 15 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 67984More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking with early years providers to help tackle early years staffing shortages in areas identified as childcare deserts.
Answer: The early years workforce is at the heart of our mission to give every child the best start in life and deliver the Plan for Change.We are supporting recruitment through our national ‘Do something BIG’ campaign, with a dedicated website setting out inform...
Answered 23 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordNurseriesDepartment for EducationTabled 10 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 66645More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to monitor the potential impact of new nursery provision on childcare (a) availability and (b) affordability in areas already served by existing providers.
Answer: Local authorities are required by legislation to secure sufficient childcare places for children in their areas, and the department will continue to speak to local authorities in England about their sufficiency of childcare. Where local authorities report...
Answered 17 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordNurseries: SchoolsDepartment for EducationTabled 10 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 66644More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if her Department will publish a list of (a) the proposed locations for new school-based nurseries and (b) the criteria used to select them.
Answer: Phase one of the School-Based Nurseries Capital Grant 2024/25 was open to all state funded primary-phase schools across England. We published a list of the successful schools, which can be accessed at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/school-bas...
Answered 17 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordNurseries: SchoolsDepartment for EducationTabled 10 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 66643More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to ensure that the expansion of school-based nurseries is focused on addressing childcare deserts and areas with significant unmet need.
Answer: The department is committed to ensuring that the expansion of school-based nurseries targets areas of need, while complementing the existing childcare market. In the first phase of the programme, schools could only apply with local authority endorsement, ...
Answered 17 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordNurseries: SchoolsDepartment for EducationTabled 10 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 66642More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department has consulted with local early years providers when identifying locations for new school-based nursery provision.
Answer: Local authorities are required by legislation to secure sufficient childcare places for children in their area. To be eligible for phase 1 of the school-based nurseries programme, schools had to obtain the endorsement of their local authority by evidencin...
Answered 17 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordSchools: ICTDepartment for EducationTabled 10 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 66641More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what her Department’s policy is on state schools charging parents for mandatory laptops or IT equipment used during school hours.
Answer: The department's guidance on charging for school activities is clear that there should be no charge for state funded education. Section 454 of the Education Act 1996 prohibits schools from charging for education during school hours or for the supply of ma...
Answered 15 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordFree Schools: ReviewsDepartment for EducationTabled 30 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 63595More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent progress her Department has made on the Mainstream Schools Review; and when she expects to announce the outcome.
Answer: The review has focused on ensuring that government funding is targeted where it is most needed. In the past, a significant proportion of spending on free schools has created surplus capacity, resulting in subsequent closure of new schools. Some of that fu...
Answered 10 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordFree School Meals: EligibilityDepartment for EducationTabled 10 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 58797More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children will cease to be eligible for free school meals following the expiry of transitional protections.
Answer: This government is committed to breaking down barriers to opportunity and tackling child poverty. We have now announced that we are extending free school meals to all children from households in receipt of Universal Credit from September 2026. It will lif...
Answered 25 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordPupils: DisciplineDepartment for EducationTabled 9 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 58267More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when she plans to publish the national behaviour survey for the 2023-24 academic year.
Answer: The National Behaviour Survey for the 2023/24 academic year is due to be published in the summer.
Answered 13 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordSchools: Gender RecognitionDepartment for EducationTabled 8 May 2025AnsweredUIN 50929More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when she plans to publish the guidance on gender-questioning children for schools.
Answer: I refer the hon. Member for Sevenoaks to the answer of 28 February 2025 to Question 31690.
Answered 13 May 2025
Original Parliament recordChildcare: Flexible Support Fund and Universal CreditDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 12 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 37714More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to (a) assess the take-up levels of the (i) childcare element of Universal Credit and (ii) Flexible Support Fund to pay upfront childcare costs and (b) increase this
Answer: Universal Credit (UC) childcare element statistics are published quarterly. In the latest month for which data is available (November 2024), 177,000 UC households were paid the UC childcare cost element. In November 2024, 29% of households on Universal Cr...
Answered 20 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordChildcare: FinanceDepartment for EducationTabled 12 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 37713More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of universally expanding the 30 hours of government funded childcare scheme.
Answer: Accessible and high quality early education and childcare is a crucial part of giving every child the best start in life, boosting children’s life chances and giving parents work choices.The government is committed to delivering the expansion of the 30 ho...
Answered 26 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordChildcare and Pre-school Education: Fees and ChargesDepartment for EducationTabled 12 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 37712More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of the increase to (a) employer National Insurance contributions and (b) the national living wage on trends in the level of fees paid by parents w
Answer: It is the department’s ambition that parents have access to high quality, affordable and flexible early education and childcare. This government has had to take some tough decisions to get our public finances back on track, but this government has incre...
Answered 26 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordSchools: BrightonDepartment for EducationTabled 12 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 31199More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will take steps to refer the proposed new Brighton and Hove City Council school admissions policy to the Office of the Schools Adjudicator.
Answer: My right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Education has not had discussions with Brighton and Hove City Council on its proposed new school admissions policy.When changes are proposed to admission arrangements, paragraphs 1.45 – 1.48 of the school a...
Answered 25 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordSchools: BrightonDepartment for EducationTabled 12 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 31198More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has received any (a) advice or (b) communication from the Office of the Schools Adjudicator on Brighton and Hove City Council’s proposed new school admissions policy.
Answer: My right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Education has not had discussions with Brighton and Hove City Council on its proposed new school admissions policy.When changes are proposed to admission arrangements, paragraphs 1.45 – 1.48 of the school a...
Answered 25 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordSchools: BrightonDepartment for EducationTabled 12 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 31091More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what discussions she has had with Brighton and Hove City Council on its proposed new school admissions policy.
Answer: My right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Education has not had discussions with Brighton and Hove City Council on its proposed new school admissions policy.When changes are proposed to admission arrangements, paragraphs 1.45 – 1.48 of the school a...
Answered 24 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordSchools: BrightonDepartment for EducationTabled 10 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 30282More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of potential impact of Brighton and Hove City Council new schools admission policy on school children.
Answer: This government believes admissions arrangements should be fair, lawful and support good outcomes for all children.School admission arrangements are set and applied locally by the admission authority for each school. After providing highest priority to lo...
Answered 18 Feb 2025
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