Question follow-through · 53404
Pre-school Education: Voluntary Contributions
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of enabling early years settings to accept voluntary financial contributions from parents to (a) support and (b) enrich learning.
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 19 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 2 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 2 Jun 2025 · 14 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
19 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of enabling early years settings to accept voluntary financial contributions from parents to (a) support and (b) enrich learning.
2 Jun 2025
Target answer date
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2 Jun 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.As the early years entitlements are expanded, ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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