Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much funding the Government has provided to maintained nursery schools in (a) Jarrow constituency, (b) South Tyneside, (c) the North East and (d) England in each year since 2010.

Maintained nursery schools (MNS) make an important contribution to improving the lives of some of our most disadvantaged children. In recognition of the costs that MNS experience over and above other providers, we are providing supplementary funding of around £60 million a year. This is in addition to funding received under the Early Years National Funding Formula (EYNFF). It will enable local authorities to protect MNS pre-EYNFF funding levels until 2019 to 2020. This funding is allocated and spent at a local authority level rather than at a constituency level. MNS supplementary funding was introduced from 2017 to 2018.

Final allocations of 2017 to 2018 MNS supplementary funding at local authority, regional and national levels are at column M of the 2017-18 Dedicated Schools Grant (DSG) allocations tab of the ‘DSG allocations 2017 to 2018’ spreadsheet. This is available at the following link: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dedicated-schools-grant-dsg-2017-to-2018.

Provisional allocations of 2018-19 MNS supplementary funding at local authority, regional and national levels are at column M of the 2018-19 Early Years Block tab of the ‘DSG allocations 2018 to 2019’ spreadsheet. This is available at the following link: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dedicated-schools-grant-dsg-2018-to-2019.