Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much funding has been made available to South Tyneside local authority for early years provision in each of the last seven years; and how much funding is being made available to South Tyneside local authority for early years provision under her Department's new early years national funding formula in each of the next three years.

The early years funding allocation for South Tyneside local authority can be found here for the following financial years:

2013-14:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dedicated-schools-grant-2013-to-2014

2014-15:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dedicated-schools-grant-2014-to-2015

2015-16:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dedicated-schools-grant-dsg-2015-to-2016

2016-17:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dedicated-schools-grant-dsg-2016-to-2017

2017-18 – First year under Early Years National Funding Formula (provisional allocation):

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dedicated-schools-grant-dsg-2017-to-2018

Prior to 2013-14, early years’ local authority funding allocations were not separately identified within the Dedicated Schools Grant (DSG). Instead, they were part of the total DSG allocated to each local authority. Early years allocations prior to 2013-14 are not therefore available.

Funding allocations for 2018-19 and 2019-20 will be announced in due course.