Question follow-through · 63439
Pre-school Education: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the level of administrative workload placed on early years providers in implementing the early years funding system; and whether she is taking steps to streamline (a)
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 27 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 2 Jul 2025
- Answer
- 2 Jul 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
27 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the level of administrative workload placed on early years providers in implementing the early years funding system; and whether she is taking steps to streamline (a)
2 Jul 2025
Target answer date
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2 Jul 2025
Answer published
Local authorities are responsible for paying early years providers to deliver the early education and childcare entitlements. The department does not provide guidance to local authorities on how they pay providers as each local authority will have its own...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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