Question follow-through · 38275
Childcare: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she plans to take to increase funding for the early years childcare sector.
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 13 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 17 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 29 Mar 2025 · 16 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
13 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she plans to take to increase funding for the early years childcare sector.
17 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
29 Mar 2025
Answer published
My right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Education has been clear in her commitment to early years. Despite tough decisions to get our public finances back on track, this government has increased investment in the early years sector to drive forwa...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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