Question follow-through · 48336
Nurseries: Birth Rate
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the impact of declining birth rates on (a) the financial sustainability and (b) capacity of nurseries in England; and what steps she is taking to support early years p
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 25 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 29 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 6 May 2025 · 11 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
25 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the impact of declining birth rates on (a) the financial sustainability and (b) capacity of nurseries in England; and what steps she is taking to support early years p
29 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
6 May 2025
Answer published
It is the department’s ambition that all families have access to high quality, affordable and flexible early education and care, giving every child the best start in life and delivering on our Plan for Change.We use the latest Office for National Statisti...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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