Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the (a) amount and (b) proportion of funding provided through free early years entitlement that is received by early education providers rated by Ofsted as (i) outstanding, (ii) good, (iii) requires improvement and (iv) inadequate in each of the last three years.

The Department for Education does not collect this information. Local authorities, in consultation with their Schools Forum, are responsible for deciding how best to distribute early years entitlement funding to local providers. In turn, the department allocates funding to local authorities through the Dedicated Schools Grant which also includes the budgets for schools and high needs.