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<p>Maintained nursery schools (MNS) make a valuable contribution to improving the
lives of some of our most disadvantaged children.</p><p>We have been providing around
£60 million per year of supplementary funding to local authorities so that they can
preserve MNS funding. We listened to concerns about the timing of the Spending Review
and we announced that we would provide local authorities with around £24 million of
further supplementary funding, to enable them to fully fund MNS for the whole of the
2019/20 academic year. Local authorities can feel reassured they can allocate September
2019 places in MNS with confidence.</p><p>All expenditure that falls in the next Spending
Review period, including the additional supplementary funding, is a matter for the
Spending Review. That includes any budgeting decisions related to the additional supplementary
funding.</p><p> </p><p> </p>
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