Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of maintained nursery schools were in budget deficit in (a) each region and (b) each local authority area in (i) 2012-13 and (ii) 2013-14.

We publish school-level revenue balances for maintained schools annually in the statistical release ‘LA and school expenditure’ at: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-local-authority-school-finance-data#local-authority-and-school-finance.

The number and proportion of maintained nursery schools in cumulative budget deficit in each region and each local authority area in 2012-13 and 2013-14 are shown in table 12 of the above publications.