9. Schools Funding—Criteria and Use of DataCHRIS HIPKINS (Labour—Rimutaka) to the Minister of EducationSchools Funding—Criteria and Use of Data9. CHRIS HIPKINS (Labour—Rimutaka) to the Minister of Education: Does she stand by her statement regarding the school funding review that we will not be interested in how we stigmatise children rather what we are trying to do is get the right resource to the right kid at the right time in the right places"?Hon HEKIA PARATA (Minister of Education): Tēnā koe Mr Deputy Speaker. As it appears that the Opposition is simply recycling questions it asked a year ago I give the answer that I consistently give and provided to this House over a year ago on 16 March 2016: "I have been consistent in stating that I do not believe that stigmatising children either through their school decile or individually leads to good educational outcomes …"Chris Hipkins: Which does she think will create the greatest stigma for schools and children: a socio-economic decile ranking as we have now or a release of a detailed breakdown of the number of pupils with parents who have been in prison or rely on a benefit the number of children who have male caregivers who are not their father or the number of children who have been the subject of Child Youth and Family (CYF) notifications all of which would be obtainable under the Official Information Act?Hon HEKIA PARATA: I know not of the second part of the member's question in relation to the primary question that was asked. There is no intention to release individual data of the kind the member is speaking of. What I do know is that the current decile system does indeed stigmatise schools.Chris Hipkins: Are all of the criteria I just mentioned proposed for inclusion in the new profiling exercise the Government is intending to do as a replacement for school decile funding?Hon HEKIA PARATA: The Government has made no decision as to what it might do in terms of supporting students who are at risk of underachievement due to disadvantage.Chris Hipkins: I raise a point of order Mr Speaker. I did not ask whether the Government had made decisions. The Minister has put a proposal out in public. I asked whether the criteria that I had listed were included in that proposal.Mr DEPUTY SPEAKER: The member may ask the question again.Chris Hipkins: Were all of the criteria that I just listed in my prior supplementary question included in the proposed system that the Government is looking at to replace decile funding?Hon HEKIA PARATA: No criteria have been proposed.Chris Hipkins: Does this Cabinet paper that she released late last year include on page 10 a list of the possible criteria that might be included in the new funding system including the proportion of time spent supported by benefits since birth the father's offending and sentencing history and all of the other criteria including CYF notifications?Hon HEKIA PARATA: I would invite the member to table that paper which has indeed been online since November last year. What it does is traverse the integrated data infrastructure (IDI) that has been publicly available as part of Statistics New Zealand's work. They are not criteria; they are an index of possible risk. [Interruption] Oh!Chris Hipkins: If that data is compiled on a school-by-school basis how will the Government prevent that data from being released and therefore stigmatising the schools and children in a far worse way than the decile funding system does?Hon HEKIA PARATA: The IDI is not compiled school by school; it provides a backdrop to the data that we draw from for social investment. To quell the anxiety that the member is expressing in Budget 2016 we decided as a Government to provide a targeted operations grant to schools based on one factor long-term benefit-dependent homes. That was an anonymised set of data. It was provided to schools without identifying who the children were. In fact the Ministry of Education has no knowledge of who specifically the children were and 99.4 percent of schools received a share of that funding. No stigmatising has gone on. Schools are operating. They have the extra funding. No child has been identified. Chris Hipkins: If that data is not going to be compiled on a school-by-school basis how will the Government allocate funding to schools based on those criteria?Hon HEKIA PARATA: When the Government has made a decision then the member will know."