Question follow-through · 38915
Nurseries: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to ensure the sustainability of funding for maintained nursery schools.
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 17 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 19 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 25 Mar 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
17 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to ensure the sustainability of funding for maintained nursery schools.
19 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
25 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 forw...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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