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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

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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	Foster Care: Allowances
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has had recent discussions with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the potential feasibility of raising the Minimum Fostering Allowance in line with inflation.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	97609
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2022 answer text <p>The national minimum allowance (NMA) is uprated annually, with the next update to come into effect in April 2023. As part of the process of uprating, the department will discuss with HM Treasury as required.</p><p>The Fostering Services: National Minimum Standards, issued by the department under the Care Standards Act 2000 (CSA), set out the expectations that are placed on foster parents and their agencies. The department is clear that no one should be ‘out of pocket’ because of their fostering role and we expect all foster parents to receive at least the NMA plus any agreed expenses to cover the full cost of caring for each child placed with them (Standard 28).</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Claire Coutinho question first answered 01/12/2022 17:47:59 answering member 4806 label Biography information for Claire Coutinho
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis