Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will publish the proposed changes to the (a) funding of each local authority in London and (b) hourly rate that providers will receive in 2017-18 after the introduction of the Early Years National Funding Formula.

We published our proposals for an Early Years National Funding Formula in August, which can be found at: https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/early-years-funding-changes-to-funding-for-3-and-4-year-olds

Alongside the consultation document, we published a detailed table of indicative funding allocations based on the implementation of our proposals. These included:

• Indicative EYNFF funding rates for local authorities in 2017-18
• The 2016-17 baseline funding rates against which the EYNFF rates can be compared
• Illustrative average provider funding rates in 2017-18.

When we respond to the consultation, we will publish final 2017-18 funding rates for local authorities alongside their baseline funding rates. It will then be for local authorities to set, in consultation with their providers, the actual funding rates that providers will receive in 2017-18.