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Childcare and Pre-school Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to support (a) early education and (b) childcare providers.

answeredDepartment for Education

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Answering body
Department for Education
Tabled
24 Mar 2025
Target answer date
27 Mar 2025
Answer
7 Apr 2025 · 14 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 24 Mar 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to support (a) early education and (b) childcare providers.

  2. 27 Mar 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 7 Apr 2025

    Answer published

    The government is committed to giving children the best start in life and has set the ambition through the government’s Plan for Change for a record proportion of children starting school ready to learn.The department has set a target for 75% of children ...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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