Pre-school Education: Finance
(asked on 16th November 2021) - View Source
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much was (a) budgeted for and (b) spent on government-funded childcare provision for 3 and 4 year olds in each of the last 5 financial years.
The government allocates funding for the early years entitlements in line with the number of places that are taken up.
The expenditure figures are as follows:
Early years dedicated schools grant allocation | 2017-18 | 2018-19 | 2019-20 | 2020-21 | 2021-22 |
3-4 year old universal hours | £2,302.6 million | £2,286.7 million | £2,278.5 million | £2,310.9 million | £2,338.2 million |
3-4 year old additional hours | £404.6 million | £743.7 million | £807.0 million | £840.3 million | £850.4 million |
2 year old | £469.7 million | £449.1 million | £433.8 million | £434.5 million | £440.8 million |
Please note that final allocations for 2020-21 and 2021-22 are not yet available.