Education

Tuesday 22nd October 2024 Written Corrections

Government’s Childcare Expansion

The following are extracts from the statement on the Government’s Childcare Expansion on 17 October 2024.

[Stephen Morgan]

On school-based nurseries, the pilot during the testing phase is for 300 places from April. Our ambition is for 3,000 places over the course of this Parliament.

[Official Report, 17 October 2024; Vol. 754, c. 1020.]

Written correction submitted by the Under-Secretary of State for Education, the hon. Member for Portsmouth South (Stephen Morgan):

[Stephen Morgan]

On school-based nurseries, the pilot during the testing phase is for up to 300 nurseries from September. Our ambition is to take this forward over the course of this Parliament.

[Stephen Morgan]

We are starting a test-and-learn phase in April; the roll-out will be in September.

[Official Report, 17 October 2024; Vol. 754, c. 1024.]

Written correction submitted by the Under-Secretary of State for Education, the hon. Member for Portsmouth South:

[Stephen Morgan]

We are starting a test-and-learn phase with delivery of the first nursery places from September 2025.