Question follow-through · 42125
Nurseries: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the number of nurseries that have withdrawn from the childcare funding scheme citing cost pressures on early years provision.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 27 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 31 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 10 Apr 2025 · 14 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
27 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the number of nurseries that have withdrawn from the childcare funding scheme citing cost pressures on early years provision.
31 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
10 Apr 2025
Answer published
It is our ambition that all families have access to high-quality, affordable and flexible early education and care, giving every child the best start in life. This is key to the government’s Plan for Change, which starts with reaching the milestone of a r...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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