Question follow-through · 40128
Pre-school Education: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she plans to increase funding rates for early years provision of three and four year olds.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 20 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 26 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 26 Mar 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
20 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she plans to increase funding rates for early years provision of three and four year olds.
26 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
26 Mar 2025
Answer published
As usual, the hourly funding rates will vary between local authorities reflecting the different communities that local authorities serve. However, for the 2025/26 financial year, the national average three and four year-old hourly funding rate of local au...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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