Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, which local authority areas had their early years hourly funding rates reduced in 2017-18 compared with 2016-17; and what percentage that reduction in funding rate was for each local authority area so affected.

37 local authorities were protected by the transitional protection, which prevents any authority seeing an annual reduction in their three and four year old hourly funding rates of more than five per cent. Each area’s percentage change is shown in the attached table. For two year olds, all local authorities saw a seven per cent increase in 2017/18 from their 2016/17 hourly rate.

Full details on early years national funding formula (EYNFF) funding rates to local authorities can be found in the document ‘EYNFF: local authority allocations for 2017 to 18’ at https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/574003/EYNFF_local_authority_allocations_table.xlsx.