Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the number and proportion of eligible two-year-olds who have not taken up a funded early education place (a) nationally and (b) in each local authority.

A copy of the data requested has been placed in the Library. The data tells us that 68% of two year olds are taking up their entitlement to funded early learning, an increase of 10% from January 2015.