Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate her Department has made of the proportion of the existing 15 hours of free childcare that is provided by nurseries that are (a) private, (b) voluntary and (c) independent.

The information requested is presented within the Main tables: SFR20/2015 at the following link:

Provision for children under 5 years of age: January 2015 - Publications - GOV.UK

Figures for 2-year-olds can be found within Table 1a and for 3- and 4-year-olds, within Table 2a.