Information between 1st December 2024 - 11th December 2024
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3 Dec 2024 - National Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) Bill - View Vote Context Laura Trott voted Aye - in line with the party majority and against the House One of 96 Conservative Aye votes vs 0 Conservative No votes Tally: Ayes - 186 Noes - 330 |
3 Dec 2024 - National Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) Bill - View Vote Context Laura Trott voted No - in line with the party majority and against the House One of 95 Conservative No votes vs 0 Conservative Aye votes Tally: Ayes - 332 Noes - 189 |
3 Dec 2024 - Elections (Proportional Representation) - View Vote Context Laura Trott voted No - in line with the party majority and against the House One of 78 Conservative No votes vs 0 Conservative Aye votes Tally: Ayes - 138 Noes - 136 |
4 Dec 2024 - Employer National Insurance Contributions - View Vote Context Laura Trott voted Aye - in line with the party majority and against the House One of 89 Conservative Aye votes vs 0 Conservative No votes Tally: Ayes - 165 Noes - 334 |
4 Dec 2024 - Farming and Inheritance Tax - View Vote Context Laura Trott voted Aye - in line with the party majority and against the House One of 96 Conservative Aye votes vs 0 Conservative No votes Tally: Ayes - 181 Noes - 339 |
10 Dec 2024 - Delegated Legislation - View Vote Context Laura Trott voted No - in line with the party majority and against the House One of 99 Conservative No votes vs 0 Conservative Aye votes Tally: Ayes - 424 Noes - 106 |
10 Dec 2024 - Finance Bill - View Vote Context Laura Trott voted Aye - in line with the party majority and against the House One of 98 Conservative Aye votes vs 0 Conservative No votes Tally: Ayes - 184 Noes - 359 |
10 Dec 2024 - Finance Bill - View Vote Context Laura Trott voted Aye - in line with the party majority and against the House One of 93 Conservative Aye votes vs 0 Conservative No votes Tally: Ayes - 105 Noes - 340 |
Speeches |
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Laura Trott speeches from: Oral Answers to Questions
Laura Trott contributed 3 speeches (277 words) Monday 9th December 2024 - Commons Chamber Department for Education |
Laura Trott speeches from: Home-to-School Transport: Children with SEND
Laura Trott contributed 2 speeches (651 words) Tuesday 3rd December 2024 - Westminster Hall Department for Education |
Written Answers |
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Mental Capacity
Asked by: Laura Trott (Conservative - Sevenoaks) Monday 2nd December 2024 Question to the Department for Education: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if her Department will take steps to increase the use of Deprivation of Liberty orders. Answered by Janet Daby - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Education) Depriving a child of their liberty must always be a last resort in order to keep the child safe. A growing number of children in England and Wales, often with complex behavioural needs, are being deprived of their liberty through Deprivation of Liberty Orders (DOLOs) under the inherent jurisdiction of the High Court, due to a lack of suitable registered placements. The department would like to see fewer children given DOLOs and an improved quality of provision for these children. As set out in the department’s recent policy statement, ‘Keeping Children Safe, Helping Families Thrive’, we want to see new forms of provision to address the rising need for suitable, registered homes capable of depriving a child of their liberty. This provision needs to be able to respond flexibly to children’s changing and fluctuating needs, as well as provide the crucial therapeutic care and, when necessary, restriction. The department intends, when Parliamentary time allows, to amend primary legislation to provide a statutory framework for local authorities seeking to place children in such new forms of accommodation, rather than relying on a DOLO. This new legislation will ensure that, where a secure children’s home cannot meet a child’s needs, there are clear criteria for when children may need to be deprived of liberty and mandatory review points to ensure that no child is deprived of liberty for longer than is required to keep them safe, while in high quality, registered provision. This is part of a wider programme of work to improve outcomes for children with complex needs. This includes a programme of capital investment to support local authorities to maintain existing capacity and expand provision in both open and secure children’s homes, including for children with complex needs. This also includes the creation of 350 additional open children’s homes placements by March 2025. The recent Autumn Budget 2024 announced £90 million for the 2025/26 financial year which includes a multi-million pound package of match funding to support local authorities to build additional open children’s home placements. This will provide high quality, safe homes for some of our most vulnerable children and young people. We have also recently commissioned independent research to understand the existing system and how we can achieve better outcomes for children who are, or are at risk of, being deprived of liberty. We aim to publish this in summer 2025. This will build on the insights gained from the research commissioned by the department from the Office of the Children’s Commissioner’s ‘Children with complex needs who are deprived of liberty’ report, published on 18 November, which interviewed children with complex needs who are deprived of liberty, their parents and the professionals who support them. |
Nurseries: Costs
Asked by: Laura Trott (Conservative - Sevenoaks) Friday 6th December 2024 Question to the Department for Education: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the mean annual costs are for nurseries in England by (a) nursery class childcare settings, (b) maintained nursery schools, (c) school-based providers, (d) private group-based providers, (e) voluntary group-based providers, (f) all group-based providers and (g) all nurseries. Answered by Stephen Morgan - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Education) Data collected by the 2024 survey of childcare and early years providers has been used to estimate the average unit costs of delivering childcare per child in a setting. This data can be found here: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/673b14b8fc572967fe66a92e/Providers__finances_Evidence_from_the_2023_Survey_of_Childcare_and_Early_Years_Providers.pdf. The department no longer publishes providers’ total costs as differences between providers largely reflect differences in the average number of children that attend them and the average number of hours that they attend for. There are limitations to the unit cost measure because of some challenges in gathering information from providers on total costs, such as the difficulty in estimating costs shared with other settings for group-based providers that are part of a chain. Furthermore, the number of hours of care provided was estimated. As a result, caution should be applied to the interpretation of the unit cost measures. |
Academies: Finance
Asked by: Laura Trott (Conservative - Sevenoaks) Tuesday 10th December 2024 Question to the Department for Education: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many trusts submitted grant applications for the Trust Capacity Fund in the most recent funding window. Answered by Catherine McKinnell - Minister of State (Education) The most recent application window for the Trust Capacity Fund opened on 1 March 2024 and closed on 25 June 2024. A total of 190 applications were received from 174 establishments, mainly trusts. |
Schools: Academies
Asked by: Laura Trott (Conservative - Sevenoaks) Monday 9th December 2024 Question to the Department for Education: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has made an assessment of the potential impact on schools of ending the academy conversion support grant. Answered by Catherine McKinnell - Minister of State (Education) High and rising standards are at the heart of this government’s mission to break down barriers to opportunity and ensure every child has the best life chances. Trusts have played, and continue to play, an important role in supporting collaboration between schools and spreading best practice in pursuit of high standards. Against a challenging fiscal inheritance the government has had to make difficult choices and ensure that limited funding is best targeted. On 1 November, we announced that we would be ending the academy conversion grant from 1 January 2025. Voluntary conversion is a choice for schools. The department thinks that the benefits, including financial, of joining a strong structure are well understood in the sector and schools and trusts should continue to make these informed choices. Additionally, latest published figures show 98% of academy trusts and 87% of local authority maintained schools are in cumulative surplus or breaking even. At the Autumn Budget 2024, the government announced an additional £2.3 billion for mainstream schools and young people with high needs for 2025/26, compared to 2024/25. This means that overall core school funding will total almost £63.9 billion next year, compared to £61.6 billion in 2024/25, after technical adjustments. |
Special Educational Needs: Private Education
Asked by: Laura Trott (Conservative - Sevenoaks) Monday 9th December 2024 Question to the Department for Education: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of pupils with SEND who currently attend independent schools do not have an Education, Health and Care plan. Answered by Catherine McKinnell - Minister of State (Education) The number and proportion of pupils in independent schools with special educational needs who do not have an education, health and care plan is published annually in the statistical release ‘Special educational needs in England’. The release can be found here: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/special-educational-needs-in-england. The information requested can be found in the section titled ‘Pupils with special educational needs in schools’. |
Schools: Academies
Asked by: Laura Trott (Conservative - Sevenoaks) Monday 9th December 2024 Question to the Department for Education: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential impact on schools of ending the academy conversion support grant. Answered by Catherine McKinnell - Minister of State (Education) High and rising standards are at the heart of this government’s mission to break down barriers to opportunity and ensure every child has the best life chances. Trusts have played, and continue to play, an important role in supporting collaboration between schools and spreading best practice in pursuit of high standards. Against a challenging fiscal inheritance the government has had to make difficult choices and ensure that limited funding is best targeted. On 1 November, we announced that we would be ending the academy conversion grant from 1 January 2025. Voluntary conversion is a choice for schools. The department thinks that the benefits, including financial, of joining a strong structure are well understood in the sector and schools and trusts should continue to make these informed choices. Additionally, latest published figures show 98% of academy trusts and 87% of local authority maintained schools are in cumulative surplus or breaking even. At the Autumn Budget 2024, the government announced an additional £2.3 billion for mainstream schools and young people with high needs for 2025/26, compared to 2024/25. This means that overall core school funding will total almost £63.9 billion next year, compared to £61.6 billion in 2024/25, after technical adjustments. |
Parliamentary Debates |
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Marriage (Prohibited Degrees of Relationship) Bill
4 speeches (1,734 words) 1st reading2nd reading Tuesday 10th December 2024 - Commons Chamber Mentions: 1: Iqbal Mohamed (Ind - Dewsbury and Batley) Smith, Neil O’Brien, Lee Anderson, Mr Andrew Snowden, John Lamont, Nick Timothy, Katie Lam and Laura Trott - Link to Speech |
Oral Answers to Questions
181 speeches (11,272 words) Monday 9th December 2024 - Commons Chamber Department for Education Mentions: 1: Bridget Phillipson (Lab - Houghton and Sunderland South) Member for Sevenoaks (Laura Trott), should know better, because she saw the scale of the fiscal inheritance - Link to Speech |
National Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) Bill
265 speeches (32,723 words) 2nd reading Tuesday 3rd December 2024 - Commons Chamber HM Treasury Mentions: 1: Paul Waugh (LAB - Rochdale) Member for Sevenoaks (Laura Trott), left her own note for her successor. - Link to Speech |
Select Committee Documents |
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Monday 9th December 2024
Report - Second Report 2024 - Work of the Committee in 2023–24 Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission Found: Laura Trott MBE MP, the then Chief Secretary to the Treasury, wrote to the Committee stating that if |
Parliamentary Research |
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Tuition fees in England: History, debates, and international comparisons - CBP-10155
Dec. 02 2024 Found: response to the government’s announcement in the House of Commons, the Shadow Education Secretary, Laura Trott |