Question follow-through · 52064
Childcare
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of areas with an identified need for 0-4 year old child care do not have spare classrooms at schools.
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 13 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 15 May 2025
- Answer
- 29 May 2025 · 16 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
13 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of areas with an identified need for 0-4 year old child care do not have spare classrooms at schools.
15 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
29 May 2025
Answer published
The department is creating 6,000 new nursery places in schools across the country in the first wave of 300 school-based nurseries, backed by £37 million of funding. Up to 4,000 places will be available from this September, helping to grow our vibrant chil...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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