Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the (a) amount and (b) proportion of government funding for early years provision that each local authority has retained in the latest period for which figures are available.

Data from local authority planned early years spend for 2016-17 is publically available and includes their planned central expenditure on central services and contingency. The data is available at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/planned-la-and-school-expenditure-2016-to-2017-financial-year

This data is as reported by the local authorities.