Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the hourly rate for early years providers delivering government funded childcare hours will be in (a) 2022-23, (b) 2023-24, and (c) 2024-25.

I refer the hon. Member for Stretford and Urmston to the answer I gave on 3 November 2021 to Question 68396.

Further to that response, the department will confirm the 2022/23 financial year hourly funding rates for individual local authorities shortly, followed by the initial allocations in December. Hourly rates for the 2023-24 and 2024-25 financial years will be announced in following years, according to the usual timetable.