Question to the Department for Education:

To ask Her Majesty's Government how many early years professionals with a relevant graduate qualification were working in early years education in (1) 2015, (2) 2016, (3) 2017, and (4) 2018.

Data on the number of graduates in the workforce is collected and published every 2 years as part of the ‘Childcare and early years providers survey’. In the period requested we have data for 2016 and 2018:

Childcare and early years providers survey: 2018, table 15 and attached: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/childcare-and-early-years-providers-survey-2018.

Childcare and early years providers survey: 2016, table 10 and attached: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/childcare-and-early-years-providers-survey-2016.