Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the cost to the public purse has been of the Government's 30 hours free childcare scheme to date.
Provisional allocations to local authorities in respect of the additional 15 hours entitlement for three and four year olds of working parents for the financial year 2017 to 2018 are available in the 2017 to 2018 dedicated schools grant allocations table on GOV.UK at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dedicated-schools-grant-dsg-2017-to-2018.
Final allocations for 2017 to 2018 will be made in the summer of 2018.