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Pre-school Education: Business Rates

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she plans to review the upper threshold for small business rates relief for early years providers.

answeredDepartment for Education

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Answering body
Department for Education
Tabled
20 Mar 2025
Target answer date
26 Mar 2025
Answer
7 Apr 2025 · 18 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 20 Mar 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she plans to review the upper threshold for small business rates relief for early years providers.

  2. 26 Mar 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 7 Apr 2025

    Answer published

    The government is committed to ensuring children have the best start in life, and has set a target of a record number of children starting school ready to learn as part of the government’s Plan for Change.Local authorities are responsible for ensuring tha...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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Disabled Students' Allowances: Assistive Technology

25 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, which groups were consulted on the withdrawal of funding for non-specialist assistive software through the Disabled Students' Allowance.

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Students: Registration

30 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether the Office for Students will be required to provide a third category for registration; and whether this will take into account the specialised environments of small specialist providers.

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Nurseries and Pre-School Education: Business Rates

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Pre-School Education: Business Rates

14 Jul 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make non-domestic early years settings exempt from business rates.

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Pre-School Education: Business Rates

14 Jul 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will centralise the payment of national non-domestic rates for (a) private, (b) voluntary and (c) independent early years settings.

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Pre-School Education

14 Jul 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she plans to reduce space requirements for children under two years of age in early years education settings.

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Nurseries: Fees and Charges

14 Jul 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of changes to nurseries pricing structures on families who usually use fewer than 30 funded hours of nursery provision and are being asked to increase these

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Higher Education: Finance

15 Jul 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the impact of the current funding model for higher education on (a) students and (b) University staff.

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Home Education: Assessments

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Childcare

4 Nov 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that Ofsted inspections are carried out in accordance with standardised procedures across childcare settings.