Tom Hayes MP: written questions

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Written questions

Children: ProtectionDepartment for EducationTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 72730More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of Best Start Family Hubs on child safeguarding.
Answer: Ensuring every child has the best start in life, the chance to achieve and to thrive, are the foundation stones of the government’s Opportunity Mission.Best Start Family Hubs will provide support for families that need it. They will improve the join up...
Answered 10 Sept 2025
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Family Hubs: ExpenditureDepartment for EducationTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 72728More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of funding for new Best Start Family Hubs is classified as capital spending.
Answer: Ensuring every child has the best start in life, the chance to achieve and to thrive, is the cornerstone of the government’s Opportunity Mission.Capital allocations will be announced in due course.
Answered 3 Oct 2025
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Family HubsDepartment for EducationTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 72727More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what role local authorities will have in the (a) delivery and (b) day-to-day operation of Best Start Family Hubs.
Answer: Ensuring every child has the best start in life, the chance to achieve and to thrive, are the foundation stones of the government’s Opportunity Mission.The government is investing over £500 million to create a network of up to 1,000 Best Start Family H...
Answered 10 Sept 2025
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Family Hubs: DisadvantagedDepartment for EducationTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 72726More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to ensure that (a) areas of rural poverty and (b) areas with concentrated pockets of deprivation can access new Best Start Family Hubs.
Answer: Best Start Family Hubs will prioritise delivery in areas of disadvantage, where families face the greatest barriers to support. The department will fund Best Start Family Hubs in every local authority to ensure that children and families who need support ...
Answered 9 Sept 2025
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Speech and Language Therapy: ChildrenDepartment for EducationTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 72725More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of Best Start Family Hubs on the number of children with speech and language problems requiring specialist intervention.
Answer: Ensuring every child has the best start in life and the chance to achieve and to thrive, are the foundation stones of the government’s Opportunity Mission.As part of the ‘Giving Every Child the Best Start in Life’ publication, the department announced ...
Answered 9 Sept 2025
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Children: ProtectionDepartment for EducationTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 72724More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of Best Start Family Hubs on the proportion of children who are subsequently re-registered on the child protection register.
Answer: Ensuring every child has the best start in life, the chance to achieve and to thrive, are the foundation stones of the government’s Opportunity Mission.Best Start Family Hubs will provide support for families that need it. They will improve the join up...
Answered 10 Sept 2025
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Family Hubs: DisadvantagedDepartment for EducationTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 72723More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children from deprived communities will be able to access a new Best Start Family Hub by the end of the Parliament.
Answer: Best Start Family Hubs will prioritise delivery in areas of disadvantage, where families face the greatest barriers to support. The department will fund Best Start Family Hubs in every local authority to ensure that children and families who need support ...
Answered 9 Sept 2025
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ChildcareDepartment for EducationTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 72722More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of Best Start Family Hubs on local availability of high-quality childcare.
Answer: Ensuring every child has the best start in life, the chance to achieve and to thrive, are the foundation stones of the government’s Opportunity Mission.Our Best Start in Life Strategy outlines how the department plans to invest close to £1.5 billion ove...
Answered 10 Sept 2025
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Family Hubs: Children's PlayDepartment for EducationTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 72721More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking within the Best Start Family Hub programme to ensure that the new centres enhance local opportunities to access good quality play.
Answer: From April 2026, Best Start Family Hubs will continue to provide universal and targeted services for families from pregnancy through age five and beyond. These include peer support sessions, stay-and-play activities, parent champions, and community outrea...
Answered 16 Sept 2025
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Family HubsDepartment for EducationTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 72720More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what learnings she has made from existing best practice in the design of the new programme of Best Start Family Hubs.
Answer: Drawing on existing best practice, we are delivering Best Start Family Hubs in every local authority from April 2026, backed by stronger national infrastructure, new digital services, and a defined core offer.The government is setting national direction f...
Answered 8 Oct 2025
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Sure Start ProgrammeDepartment for EducationTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 72719More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what lessons her Department has learned from the preceding roll out of (a) Sure Start Sure Start Local Programmes and (b) Sure Start Children’s Centres.
Answer: Ensuring every child has the best start in life, the chance to achieve and to thrive, are the foundation stones of the government’s Opportunity Mission.Research by the Institute of Fiscal Studies has shown that access to Sure Start local programmes and...
Answered 10 Sept 2025
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Family HubsDepartment for EducationTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 72718More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, which services are set to be delivered by the Government’s new Best Start Family Hubs.
Answer: The Best Start Family Hubs programme will fund all local authorities in England to deliver services to support ages 0 to 5, with more funding for parent and home learning environment evidence-based interventions for ages 3 to 4, while retaining support fo...
Answered 17 Sept 2025
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Family HubsDepartment for EducationTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 72717More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment has she made of the potential impact of Best Start Family Hubs on (a) children’s development and (b) educational outcomes.
Answer: Ensuring every child has the best start in life and the chance to achieve and to thrive, are the foundation stones of the government’s Opportunity Mission.As part of the ‘Giving Every Child the Best Start in Life’ publication, the department announced ...
Answered 9 Sept 2025
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Special Educational Needs: Family HubsDepartment for EducationTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 72716More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of Best Start Family Hubs on the early identification of SEN amongst children.
Answer: Ensuring every child has the best start in life and the chance to achieve and to thrive, are the foundation stones of the government’s Opportunity Mission.As part of the ‘Giving Every Child the Best Start in Life’ publication, the department announced ...
Answered 9 Sept 2025
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Independent Commission into Adult Social CareDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 22 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 70222More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when next year he expects Baroness Casey of Blackstock DBE CB to report on the first phase of her independent commission into adult social care.
Answer: The independent commission, chaired by Baroness Louise Casey, has begun its work on how to build a social care system fit for the future, and will first report in 2026.The commission is independent, and Baroness Casey therefore has the autonomy to decide ...
Answered 2 Sept 2025
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Care Homes: CostsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 22 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 70220More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help reduce the impact of care costs for self funding care home residents.
Answer: The majority of care homes are in the independent sector and are free to set their fees as they see fit. The Department does not have the powers to set or recommend the level of fees that a private care home can charge, as this is a commercial decision fo...
Answered 1 Sept 2025
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Care Homes: CostsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 22 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 70217More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of trends in the level of care home fees on self-funding residents.
Answer: The majority of care homes are in the independent sector and are free to set their fees as they see fit. The Department does not have the powers to set or recommend the level of fees that a private care home can charge, as this is a commercial decision fo...
Answered 1 Sept 2025
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Education: StandardsDepartment for EducationTabled 22 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 70114More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the minimum beneficial amount of enrichment activity for children.
Answer: The department, working closely with the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, has committed to publishing a new enrichment framework by the end of 2025. The framework is being developed alongside a working group consisting of experts from schools, you...
Answered 1 Sept 2025
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Education: StandardsDepartment for EducationTabled 22 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 70113More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of enrichment activities on children from disadvantaged backgrounds.
Answer: The department, working closely with the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, has committed to publishing a new enrichment framework by the end of 2025. The framework is being developed alongside a working group consisting of experts from schools, you...
Answered 1 Sept 2025
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Education: StandardsDepartment for EducationTabled 22 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 70111More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of including a national enrichment guarantee in the enrichment framework.
Answer: The department, working closely with the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, has committed to publishing a new enrichment framework by the end of 2025. The framework is being developed alongside a working group consisting of experts from schools, you...
Answered 1 Sept 2025
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Gender Dysphoria: Young PeopleDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 9 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 66398More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to support research into the health needs of trans young people.
Answer: In line with the findings of the recent Cass Review, the Government is committed to supporting the development of research that delivers a robust, evidence-based understanding of gender dysphoria and transgender issues, especially where these issues relat...
Answered 18 Jul 2025
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Children's Centres and Family HubsDepartment for EducationTabled 9 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 66397More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many (a) family hubs and (b) former Sure Start children centres are in operation in each council area.
Answer: On 25 January 2024, the government published a list of family hubs which can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/list-of-family-hub-sites. 75 local authorities have received joint funding from the department and the Department of Hea...
Answered 16 Jul 2025
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Family Hubs: FinanceDepartment for EducationTabled 9 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 66396More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, on what criteria she plans to allocate funding for the new Best Start Family Hubs; and whether this differs from the criteria for the Hubs and Start for Life Programme 2022.
Answer: Local authorities were pre-selected in rank order using Income Deprivation Affecting Children Indices Average Rank, ensuring a minimum of 25% of local authorities from each Office for National Statistics rural urban classification have been pre-selected f...
Answered 21 Jul 2025
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Family Hubs: FinanceDepartment for EducationTabled 9 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 66395More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Hubs and Start for Life Programme 2022, what criteria was used to allocate funding to establish new Family Hubs.
Answer: Local authorities were pre-selected in rank order using Income Deprivation Affecting Children Indices Average Rank, ensuring a minimum of 25% of local authorities from each Office for National Statistics rural urban classification have been pre-selected f...
Answered 21 Jul 2025
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Family Hubs: FinanceDepartment for EducationTabled 9 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 66394More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many existing Family Hubs received funding through the 2022 Family Hubs and Start for Life Programme scheme by council area.
Answer: On 25 January 2024, the government published a list of family hubs which can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/list-of-family-hub-sites. 75 local authorities have received joint funding from the department and the Department of Hea...
Answered 16 Jul 2025
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