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1700194

	registered interest
	date	12/04/2024
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Nurseries: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what was the total budget deficit for maintained nursery schools in England in the financial year (a) 2021-22 and b) 2022-23.
	tabling member constituency	Dulwich and West Norwood
	tabling member printed	Helen Hayes
	uin	21160
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/04/2024 answer text <p>The data you requested for the 2021/22 financial year can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/la-and-school-expenditure-2021-to-2022-financial-year" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/la-and-school-expenditure-2021-to-2022-financial-year</a>.</p><p>The data for the 2022/23 financial year can be found here: <a href="https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/la-and-school-expenditure" target="_blank">https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/la-and-school-expenditure</a>.</p><p>This data can be found on GOV.UK in Local Authority and School Expenditure data. In summary: <a href="https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink/09ae561f-1997-46da-4c66-08dc5d297e6b" target="_blank">https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink/09ae561f-1997-46da-4c66-08dc5d297e6b</a>.</p><p>The latest available data is for the 2022/23 financial year and therefore the department is unable to answer the questions related to 2023/24 and 2024/25.</p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed David Johnston grouped question UIN 21161 21162 21163 question first answered 17/04/2024 14:56:50 answering member 4761 label Biography information for David Johnston
	tabling member	4510 label Biography information for Helen Hayes

1700195

	registered interest
	date	12/04/2024
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Nurseries: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what was the budget deficit for maintained nursery schools in England in the financial year (a) 2021-22 and (b) 2022-23 by local authority.
	tabling member constituency	Dulwich and West Norwood
	tabling member printed	Helen Hayes
	uin	21161
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/04/2024 answer text <p>The data you requested for the 2021/22 financial year can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/la-and-school-expenditure-2021-to-2022-financial-year" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/la-and-school-expenditure-2021-to-2022-financial-year</a>.</p><p>The data for the 2022/23 financial year can be found here: <a href="https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/la-and-school-expenditure" target="_blank">https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/la-and-school-expenditure</a>.</p><p>This data can be found on GOV.UK in Local Authority and School Expenditure data. In summary: <a href="https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink/09ae561f-1997-46da-4c66-08dc5d297e6b" target="_blank">https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink/09ae561f-1997-46da-4c66-08dc5d297e6b</a>.</p><p>The latest available data is for the 2022/23 financial year and therefore the department is unable to answer the questions related to 2023/24 and 2024/25.</p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed David Johnston grouped question UIN 21160 21162 21163 question first answered 17/04/2024 14:56:50 answering member 4761 label Biography information for David Johnston
	tabling member	4510 label Biography information for Helen Hayes

1700196

	registered interest
	date	12/04/2024
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Nurseries: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what is the projected budget deficit for maintained nursery schools in England in the financial year (a) 2023-24, (b) 2024-25 and (c) 2025-26.
	tabling member constituency	Dulwich and West Norwood
	tabling member printed	Helen Hayes
	uin	21162
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/04/2024 answer text <p>The data you requested for the 2021/22 financial year can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/la-and-school-expenditure-2021-to-2022-financial-year" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/la-and-school-expenditure-2021-to-2022-financial-year</a>.</p><p>The data for the 2022/23 financial year can be found here: <a href="https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/la-and-school-expenditure" target="_blank">https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/la-and-school-expenditure</a>.</p><p>This data can be found on GOV.UK in Local Authority and School Expenditure data. In summary: <a href="https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink/09ae561f-1997-46da-4c66-08dc5d297e6b" target="_blank">https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink/09ae561f-1997-46da-4c66-08dc5d297e6b</a>.</p><p>The latest available data is for the 2022/23 financial year and therefore the department is unable to answer the questions related to 2023/24 and 2024/25.</p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed David Johnston grouped question UIN 21160 21161 21163 question first answered 17/04/2024 14:56:50 answering member 4761 label Biography information for David Johnston
	tabling member	4510 label Biography information for Helen Hayes

1700197

	registered interest
	date	12/04/2024
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Nurseries: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what is the projected budget deficit for maintained nursery schools in England in the financial year (a) 2023-24, (b) 2024-25 and (c) 2025-26 by local authority.
	tabling member constituency	Dulwich and West Norwood
	tabling member printed	Helen Hayes
	uin	21163
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/04/2024 answer text <p>The data you requested for the 2021/22 financial year can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/la-and-school-expenditure-2021-to-2022-financial-year" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/la-and-school-expenditure-2021-to-2022-financial-year</a>.</p><p>The data for the 2022/23 financial year can be found here: <a href="https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/la-and-school-expenditure" target="_blank">https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/la-and-school-expenditure</a>.</p><p>This data can be found on GOV.UK in Local Authority and School Expenditure data. In summary: <a href="https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink/09ae561f-1997-46da-4c66-08dc5d297e6b" target="_blank">https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink/09ae561f-1997-46da-4c66-08dc5d297e6b</a>.</p><p>The latest available data is for the 2022/23 financial year and therefore the department is unable to answer the questions related to 2023/24 and 2024/25.</p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed David Johnston grouped question UIN 21160 21161 21162 question first answered 17/04/2024 14:56:50 answering member 4761 label Biography information for David Johnston
	tabling member	4510 label Biography information for Helen Hayes

1545882

	registered interest
	date	28/11/2022
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Nurseries: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to Autumn Statement 2022 and the announcement of an additional £2.3 billion of funding for education in 2023 and 2024, whether that funding will be available to maintained nursery schools.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, West Derby
	tabling member printed	Ian Byrne
	uin	97664
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2022 answer text <p>In the 2022 Autumn Statement, my right hon. Friend the Chancellor did not commit to new measures for early years, including maintained nursery schools (MNS).</p><p>The department has increased funding to local authorities to increase the hourly rates they pay to childcare providers, including MNS, and we are providing additional support for all early years providers with their energy costs over the winter. Further, specifically for MNS, the department has already announced that an additional £10 million will be invested into MNS supplementary funding from 2023/24. This is in addition to the increase to supplementary funding in 2022/23, where the department increased the hourly funding rate by 3.5%, which is equivalent to the increase in the 3 and 4-year-old hourly funding rates. The department has confirmed the continuation of MNS supplementary funding throughout the spending review period, providing the sector with long-term certainty.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Claire Coutinho question first answered 01/12/2022 17:07:14 answering member 4806 label Biography information for Claire Coutinho
	tabling member	4831 label Biography information for Ian Byrne

1418182

	registered interest
	date	31/01/2022
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Nurseries: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of public funding for nurseries.
	tabling member constituency	York Central
	tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
	uin	114812
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2022 answer text <p>We have spent over £3.5 billion in each of the past three years on our early education entitlements and the government will continue to support families with their childcare costs.</p><p>At the Spending Review on 27 October 2021, we announced that we are investing additional funding for the early years entitlements worth £160 million in the 2022-23 financial year, £180 million in 2023-24 and £170 million in 2024-25, compared to the current year. This is for local authorities to increase hourly rates paid to childcare providers for the government’s free childcare entitlement offers and reflects cost pressures as well as anticipated changes in the number of eligible children. For 2022-23 we will increase the hourly funding rates for all local authorities by 21p an hour for the two-year-old entitlement and, for the vast majority of areas, by 17p an hour for the three- and four-year-old entitlement.</p><p>The early years national funding formula has been designed to allocate our record investment in early years entitlement funding fairly and transparently across the country. We will continue to review the data underpinning the formula.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince grouped question UIN 114814 question first answered 09/02/2022 12:46:44 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1418387

	registered interest
	date	31/01/2022
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Nurseries: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the impact of the formula for calculating Maintained Nursery Schools supplementary funding on discrepancies in that funding between (a) Barnet, Camden and Harrow, (b) Newcastle and (c) Westminster; and whether he has plans to reform that formula.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
	tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
	uin	114734
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/02/2022 answer text <p>Maintained nursery schools are an important part of the early years sector, and they provide support for some of our most disadvantaged children. The government provides local authorities that have maintained nursery schools with supplementary funding, to enable them to protect maintained nursery schools’ 2016-17 financial year funding levels. As local authorities individually decided the funding levels of maintained nursery schools at that time, this means that there is a range of funding levels across the country.</p><p>We have confirmed the continuation of maintained nursery school supplementary funding throughout the three year spending period, providing the sector with long-term certainty. For financial year 2022-23, we will increase the maintained nursery schools supplementary hourly funding rate by 3.5%, which is equivalent to the increase in the three and four-year-old hourly funding rates.</p><p>The survey carried out by Early Education, NAHT, National Education Union and UNISON is a valuable contribution to our understanding of the maintained nursery schools. We continue to work closely with sector representatives to understand issues affecting them.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince grouped question UIN 114735 question first answered 03/02/2022 14:18:43 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

1418393

	registered interest
	date	31/01/2022
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Nurseries: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the findings of the Early Education, NAHT, NEU and UNISON survey on the impact of covid-19 on Maintained Nursery School funding.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
	tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
	uin	114735
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/02/2022 answer text <p>Maintained nursery schools are an important part of the early years sector, and they provide support for some of our most disadvantaged children. The government provides local authorities that have maintained nursery schools with supplementary funding, to enable them to protect maintained nursery schools’ 2016-17 financial year funding levels. As local authorities individually decided the funding levels of maintained nursery schools at that time, this means that there is a range of funding levels across the country.</p><p>We have confirmed the continuation of maintained nursery school supplementary funding throughout the three year spending period, providing the sector with long-term certainty. For financial year 2022-23, we will increase the maintained nursery schools supplementary hourly funding rate by 3.5%, which is equivalent to the increase in the three and four-year-old hourly funding rates.</p><p>The survey carried out by Early Education, NAHT, National Education Union and UNISON is a valuable contribution to our understanding of the maintained nursery schools. We continue to work closely with sector representatives to understand issues affecting them.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince grouped question UIN 114734 question first answered 03/02/2022 14:18:44 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

1416485

	registered interest
	date	25/01/2022
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Nurseries: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what discussions he has had with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on increasing the Funded Early Learning rate given to local authorities for nursery funding to align with the increase in the National Minimum Wage from April 2022.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield Central
	tabling member printed	Paul Blomfield
	uin	111560
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2022 answer text <p>At the Spending Review on 27 October 2021, we announced that we are investing additional funding for the early years entitlements worth £160 million in the 2022-23 financial year, £180 million in 2023-24 and £170 million in 2024-25, compared to the current year. This is for local authorities to increase hourly rates paid to childcare providers for the government’s free childcare entitlement offers and reflects cost pressures, like the increase in the national minimum wage, as well as anticipated changes in the number of eligible children.</p><p>For 2022-23 we will increase the hourly funding rates for all local authorities by 21p an hour for the two-year-old entitlement and, for the vast majority of areas, by 17p an hour for the three and four-year-old entitlement. Uplifted funding rates for each local authority for 2022-23 were published on 25 November 2021: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/early-years-funding-2022-to-2023" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/early-years-funding-2022-to-2023</a>.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 31/01/2022 17:55:42 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	4058 label Biography information for Paul Blomfield

1274010

	registered interest
	date	06/01/2021
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Nurseries: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government on the effect on the viability of (a) academy trust nurseries and (b) maintained school nurseries of local authorities returning to funding following the child from 1 January 2021.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	133856
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2021 answer text <p>During the COVID-19 outbreak, we have provided unprecedented support to the early years sector by continuing to fund the free childcare entitlements, making grants and loans available and ensuring early years providers can access the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme for their non-government funded income, and childminders the Self-Employment Income Support Scheme.</p><p>While we recognise childcare attendance has been affected by the COVID-19 outbreak, we saw attendance rise over the autumn term from 482,000 on 10 September 2020 to 792,000 on 10 December 2020. On 17 December 2020, the government therefore announced a return to funding early years settings on the basis on attendance.</p><p>Under these arrangements, local authorities should ensure that providers are not penalised for short-term absences of children (for example sickness, arriving late or leaving early, or a family emergency) through withdrawing funding but use their discretion where absence is recurring or for extended periods, taking into account the reason for the absence and the impact on the provider.</p><p>The national lockdown announced by my right hon. Friend, the Prime Minister, on 4 January 2021 means the number of children attending childcare will drop although early years settings remain open for all.</p><p>We stay in regular contact with the early years sector and have heard from them already on this subject. We publish regular official statistics on attendance in early years settings, available here: <a href="https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/attendance-in-education-and-early-years-settings-during-the-coronavirus-covid-19-outbreak" target="_blank">https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/attendance-in-education-and-early-years-settings-during-the-coronavirus-covid-19-outbreak</a>. The next release is due on Tuesday 19 January 2021. We will be closely monitoring both parental take-up of places and the capacity and responses of providers and will keep under constant review whether further action is needed.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Chelmsford answering member printed Vicky Ford question first answered 15/01/2021 14:53:58 answering member 4674 label Biography information for Vicky Ford
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis