Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate he has made of the number of children accessing the 15-hours free childcare scheme for disadvantaged two-year-olds in (a) East Hampshire constituency, (b) Hampshire local authority area and (c) England in each year since its inception.

The number of 2-year-old children benefiting from funded early education in Hampshire local authority and England are shown in the table below. Data is not published at parliamentary consistency level.

Number of 2-year-old children benefiting from funded early education 2014-2019 Hampshire local authority and England

Source: Early Years Census (EYC), School Census (SC), and School Level Annual School Census (SLASC)

(1) Count of children aged 2 at 31 December in the previous calendar year.

(2) Any child attending more than one provider will have only been counted once.

(3) Includes general hospital schools and excludes pupil referral units.