Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate he has made of the number and proportion of three and four year old children not accessing the funded early education offer by local authority.
The information requested on 3 and 4 year old children not accessing funded early education is not held centrally.
Tables 2LA and 8LA of the ‘Provision for children under 5’ statistical release: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/education-provision-children-under-5-years-of-age-january-2018, shows the number and take up rates for 3 and 4 year old children.