Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of (a) two years old and (b) three to four years old have been signed up to free early education in (i) the UK, (ii) London and (iii) Bethnal Green and Bow constituency in each of the last five years.

Funded early education for two-year-olds was first introduced in September 2013 and first reported in 2014 in the statistical publication “Provision for children under-five years of age in England”. This is available online at: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-childcare-and-early-years. Figures are provided at national, regional and local authority level. Information at constituency level is not available.