Question follow-through · 36959
Childcare
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of opportunities for childcare providers to feedback on plans for the sector.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 10 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 12 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 29 Mar 2025 · 19 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
10 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of opportunities for childcare providers to feedback on plans for the sector.
12 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
29 Mar 2025
Answer published
The department is working with the sector to create an integrated early years and childcare system that works for parents and gives every child the best start in life.Childcare providers’ feedback, intelligence and engagement are at the heart of the depar...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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