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Childcare: Costs

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to provide affordable childcare to parents in (a) work and (b) further education.

answeredDepartment for Education

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Answering body
Department for Education
Tabled
27 Feb 2025
Target answer date
3 Mar 2025
Answer
7 Mar 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 27 Feb 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to provide affordable childcare to parents in (a) work and (b) further education.

  2. 3 Mar 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 7 Mar 2025

    Answer published

    It is the department’s ambition that parents have access to high quality, affordable and flexible early education and childcare.Next year alone, the department plans to provide over £8 billion for the early years entitlements, a more than 30% increase com...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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