Children: Day Care
(asked on 8th March 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much the Government spent on the 15 hours (a) funded childcare offer for three and four year olds and (b) offer for disadvantaged two year olds in 2015-16 and 2016-17.
This question was answered on 13th March 2017
Central government funding allocations to local authorities for delivering the two, three and four year old entitlements in 2015-16 and 2016-17 are as follows:
| 2015-16 | 2016-17 (provisional) |
3 and 4 year old | £2.2bn | £2.3bn |
2 year old | £0.4bn | £0.5bn |