Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans his Department has to review funding streams for children who are not of reception age to access additional support services whilst at nursery.

Funding for children’s services is part of the wider local government finance settlement. The Spending Review in 2015 made available more than £200 billion to councils for local services, including children’s services, up to 2019-20.

By 2019-20 we will be spending around £6 billion on childcare support. This includes, for example, the Disability Access Fund.

Budgets after 2019-20 will be set at the next Spending Review.