Question follow-through · 7932
Extended Services: Closures
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many after-school childcare providers have closed since 2020.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 8 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 10 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 16 Oct 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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Recorded timeline
8 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many after-school childcare providers have closed since 2020.
10 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
16 Oct 2024
Answer published
The department does not hold this information.This government recognises the vital work that private, voluntary and independent (PVI) providers, including childminders, undertake to deliver before-school, after-school and holiday childcare. The government...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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16 Dec 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to reduce persistent absences in primary and secondary schools in West Bromwich constituency.
Truancy: Sandwell
16 Dec 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of above average unauthorised absence rates on educational outcomes in Sandwell local authority area.
Teachers: Sandwell
1 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she is taking steps to ensure that all schools in Sandwell are listing teaching jobs with a (a) main and (b) upper pay scale.