Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much the Government has spent on nursery education in Wolverhampton North East constituency in each of the last seven years; and how much it plans to spend on such education in that constituency in the financial year 2017-18.

Funding for the free early years entitlements is allocated on a local authority basis. The early years funding allocation for Wolverhampton local authority can be found below 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 (provisional allocation):

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

2017-18 (indicative 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.