Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many (a) childminders and (b) group-based childcare settings rated good or outstanding by Ofsted have joined the Early Years Register in each month of the last three years.

Ofsted is the non-ministerial government department responsible for the regulation of early education and childcare providers. They publish a regular series of statistics relating to early years’ providers, which can be viewed from this link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ofsted/about/statistics.

I have informed Ofsted of these two questions and Her Majesty's Chief Inspector will be writing to the hon. Member in response. A copy of that letter will be placed in the libraries of the House.