Pre-school Education

(asked on 10th January 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, further to her Department's £50 million funding announcement for early years capital projects of 10 January 2017, (a) how much each funded project will receive, (b) how much funding has been granted to projects in each local authority area in England and (c) how many applications for funding were received to support projects in each local authority area.


Answered by
Caroline Dinenage Portrait
Caroline Dinenage
This question was answered on 13th January 2017

The Department has recently made £50m available through the Early Years Capital Fund, which was a bid round committed to creating new 30 hours places and was open to local authorities, working in partnership with providers (this included providers that currently offer, or plan to offer, provision for 3- and 4-year olds) in their area. This one-off bidding round closed at the end of August 2016 and we published outcomes in January 2017.

All local authorities were informed of the status of their projects in December 2016 and a full list of successful projects can be found at: www.gov.uk/guidance/early-years-capital-fund-2017

We will publish individual project amounts in due course as to do so now would inhibit local authorities’ negotiations with suppliers and their ability to secure value for money.

Also attached is a document containing a list of the 510 projects originally submitted by local authorities.

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