Lord Pack: DfE: Written Answers (1)

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Written Question

Pre-school Education: Fees and Charges

Tuesday 23rd September 2025

Asked by: Lord Pack (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask His Majesty's Government what progress they have made in developing new registration fee arrangements for early years providers.

Answered by Baroness Smith of Malvern - Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)

The department is reviewing our Early Years Register fees policy. As set out in the Explanatory Memorandum to the Childcare (Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 2025, which came into force on 9 June 2025, the department has extended the existing alternative annual fee arrangements until 1 September 2027 as a temporary measure to maintain the status quo while the fees policy is being reviewed and considered as a whole.