Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what information the Government holds on whether any underspends in childcare funding in local councils have been ringfenced for early years education as of June 2023.

Early years funding is one of the funding blocks of the dedicated schools grant (DSG). Whilst the department does collect information around the total level of DSG underspend from local authorities, specific information regarding which funding blocks within the DSG the underspends have originated from is not collected.