Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Answer of 21 October 2016 to Question 49012, on pre-school education, how much of that record investment in childcare has been allocated in 2016-17; to what programmes that funding has been allocated; and whether the Government plans to review the allocation process for that funding in each year until 2020.

Our record investment, referred to in Parliamentary Question 49012, refers to the expected annual spend on childcare by 2020. It includes funding for the free early years entitlements as well as childcare subsidies such as Tax Free Childcare and the childcare element of Working Tax Credit.

In terms of pre-school education, our final allocations for 2016-17, which predated the introduction of 30 hours of free childcare and the Early Years National Funding Formula, can be found at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dedicated-schools-grant-dsg-2016-to-2017.

The allocations process for funding pre-school education is set out in the Dedicated Schools Grant (DSG) Technical Note which can be found at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dedicated-schools-grant-dsg-2017-to-2018.