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Childcare: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to support early years childcare providers with their funding arrangements.

answeredDepartment for Education

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Answering body
Department for Education
Tabled
13 Mar 2025
Target answer date
18 Mar 2025
Answer
29 Mar 2025 · 16 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 13 Mar 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to support early years childcare providers with their funding arrangements.

  2. 18 Mar 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 29 Mar 2025

    Answer published

    The government has been clear in our commitment to the early years. 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 and the work choices for eve...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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