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registered interest false remove filter
date less than 2022-04-14more like thismore than 2022-04-14
answering body
Department for Education more like this
answering dept id 60 more like this
answering dept short name Education more like this
answering dept sort name Education more like this
hansard heading Pre-school Education: Finance more like this
house id 1 more like this
legislature
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pref label House of Commons more like this
question text To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the finding by the National Day Nurseries Association that £55 million of early years funding was unspent or allocated to other budgets in 2020-2021, what assessment his Department has made of the implications of that finding for his spending on early years education; and if he will commit to (a) reviewing the funding of early education and childcare and (b) ensuring that funding follows the child it was intended to support. more like this
tabling member constituency Ellesmere Port and Neston remove filter
tabling member printed
Justin Madders remove filter
uin 154080 more like this
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is ministerial correction false more like this
date of answer less than 2022-04-26more like thismore than 2022-04-26
answer text <p>The department has 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>The Early Years National Funding Formula (EYNFF) has been designed to allocate our record investment in early years (EY) entitlement funding fairly and transparently across the country. The department will continue to review the data underpinning the formula.</p><p>Local authorities can set aside contingency funding as part of their local budgetary process to help manage fluctuations in take-up. The amount of contingency funding set aside within local EY budgets has reduced year on year since the introduction of the EYNFF in 2017. Nationally, this accounted for less than 1% of the budget for the EY entitlements in the 2021/22 financial year.</p><p>Any underspend from a local authority’s EY budget is carried forward to the next financial year and must remain within the education budget. Funding allocations for local authorities for the EY entitlements in financial year 2020-21 (the same period as covered in the National Day Nurseries Association report) can be found here: <a href="https://skillsfunding.service.gov.uk/view-latest-funding/national-funding-allocations/DSG/2020-to-2021" target="_blank">https://skillsfunding.service.gov.uk/view-latest-funding/national-funding-allocations/DSG/2020-to-2021</a>.</p><p>The downward adjustment between the March 2021 and November 2021 updates reflects a demographic dip in the number of children eligible for the entitlements based on January 2021 census data.</p>
answering member constituency Colchester more like this
answering member printed Will Quince more like this
question first answered
less than 2022-04-26T12:07:12.95Zmore like thismore than 2022-04-26T12:07:12.95Z
answering member
4423
label Biography information for Will Quince more like this
tabling member
4418
label Biography information for Justin Madders more like this