Pre-school Education: Finance

(asked on 1st December 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 25 November 2020 to Question 118555, what the cost to the public purse was of the (a) 15 hour free early years entitlement for (i) the most disadvantaged two year olds and (ii) parents of three and four year olds and (b) 30 hour early years entitlement for working parents of three and four year olds in each of the last three years.


Answered by
Vicky Ford Portrait
Vicky Ford
This question was answered on 9th December 2020

Details of government spending on the early education entitlements is available in the dedicated school grant allocations tables. These are available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dedicated-schools-grant-dsg-2020-to-2021; https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dedicated-schools-grant-dsg-2019-to-2020; and https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dedicated-schools-grant-dsg-2018-to-2019.

The funding allocations for local authorities are based on actual take up of the entitlement hours.

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