Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate he has made of the average nursery costs for children under two years old in (a) the UK, (b) Yorkshire and the Humber and (c) York in the most recent period for which figures are available.

The department published the ‘Early years providers cost study: 2018’ in February 2019, which shows that the mean hourly delivery cost for children under 2 years old in England is £5.18. This figure should be treated with caution due to the small sample size. Data is not available for the UK due to survey coverage and is not available at a regional level or local authority level due to small sample sizes.

The data is available at the following link: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/early-years-providers-cost-study-2018.