Question follow-through · 66643
Nurseries: Schools
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to ensure that the expansion of school-based nurseries is focused on addressing childcare deserts and areas with significant unmet need.
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 10 Jul 2025
- Target answer date
- 15 Jul 2025
- Answer
- 17 Jul 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
10 Jul 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to ensure that the expansion of school-based nurseries is focused on addressing childcare deserts and areas with significant unmet need.
15 Jul 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
17 Jul 2025
Answer published
The department is committed to ensuring that the expansion of school-based nurseries targets areas of need, while complementing the existing childcare market. In the first phase of the programme, schools could only apply with local authority endorsement, ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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