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Division Vote (Commons)
20 Feb 2024 - Offshore Petroleum Licensing Bill - View Vote Context
Kate Hollern (Lab) voted Aye - in line with the party majority and against the House
One of 161 Labour Aye votes vs 0 Labour No votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 226 Noes - 287
MP Financial Interest
Kate Hollern (Labour - Blackburn)
Original Source (19th February 2024)
3. Gifts, benefits and hospitality from UK sources
Name of donor: Blackburn Rovers F&A Ltd
Address of donor: Ewood Park, Blackburn BB2 4JF
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: Two match tickets with hospitality, provided by the Board of Directors, value £360
Date received: 29 January 2024
Date accepted: 29 January 2024
Donor status: company, registration 53482

Written Question
Childminding
Thursday 1st February 2024

Asked by: Kate Hollern (Labour - Blackburn)

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make it her policy to allow parents to claim funded hours for their child if they are cared for by a registered childminder who is also a member of their extended family.

Answered by David Johnston - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Education)

Childminders are a key part of the childcare market and they will play a significant part in the government’s increased early years entitlements offer.

Funding made available in the dedicated schools grant (DSG) for the entitlements to early education for two, three and four-year-olds cannot be claimed by, or spent on, childminders providing childcare for related children. This restriction is placed on local authorities funding relatives and is set out in the Childcare Act 2006 (the 2006 Act) Section 18(4)(c). The 2006 Act specifically excludes care provided for a child by a parent or other relative, and section 18(8)(c) of the 2006 Act states that a relative, in relation to a child, means ‘a grandparent, aunt, uncle, brother or sister, whether of the full blood or half blood or by marriage or civil partnership’.

This approach avoids creating an incentive for adults to register to become childminders and being paid to look after related children that they are already looking after on an informal basis.

A local authority can choose to fund a childminder providing care for a related child. However, this would have to be from the local authority funds that are independent of the DSG.

In the case of a nursery or pre-school, the funding is not necessarily paid to an individual who is caring for a relative, but to the setting which provides early education to a group of children, which may include a child related to a member of staff.

Division Vote (Commons)
23 Jan 2024 - Children Not in School: National Register and Support - View Vote Context
Kate Hollern (Lab) voted Aye - in line with the party majority and against the House
One of 169 Labour Aye votes vs 0 Labour No votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 189 Noes - 303
Division Vote (Commons)
23 Jan 2024 - Protecting Steel in the UK - View Vote Context
Kate Hollern (Lab) voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House
One of 159 Labour Aye votes vs 0 Labour No votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 223 Noes - 0
Division Vote (Commons)
22 Jan 2024 - Offshore Petroleum Licensing Bill - View Vote Context
Kate Hollern (Lab) voted Aye - in line with the party majority and against the House
One of 158 Labour Aye votes vs 0 Labour No votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 209 Noes - 292
Division Vote (Commons)
22 Jan 2024 - Offshore Petroleum Licensing Bill - View Vote Context
Kate Hollern (Lab) voted No - in line with the party majority and against the House
One of 158 Labour No votes vs 0 Labour Aye votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 293 Noes - 211
Division Vote (Commons)
17 Jan 2024 - Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill - View Vote Context
Kate Hollern (Lab) voted No - in line with the party majority and against the House
One of 189 Labour No votes vs 0 Labour Aye votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 340 Noes - 263
Division Vote (Commons)
17 Jan 2024 - Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill - View Vote Context
Kate Hollern (Lab) voted Aye - in line with the party majority and against the House
One of 190 Labour Aye votes vs 0 Labour No votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 264 Noes - 338
Division Vote (Commons)
17 Jan 2024 - Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill - View Vote Context
Kate Hollern (Lab) voted Aye - in line with the party majority and against the House
One of 189 Labour Aye votes vs 0 Labour No votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 263 Noes - 339