Question follow-through · 35998
Pre-school Education: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that funding for early years services meets the financial needs of providers.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 5 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 7 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 13 Mar 2025 · 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
5 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that funding for early years services meets the financial needs of providers.
7 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
13 Mar 2025
Answer published
The department has been clear in our commitment to the early years as our number one priority. It is our ambition that all families have access to high-quality, affordable and flexible early education and care, improving the life chances for every child a...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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