Question follow-through · 66748
Pre-school Education: Inspections
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of Ofsted inspections of early years settings have been unannounced in each of the last five years.
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 10 Jul 2025
- Target answer date
- 14 Jul 2025
- Answer
- 23 Jul 2025 · 13 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
10 Jul 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of Ofsted inspections of early years settings have been unannounced in each of the last five years.
14 Jul 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
23 Jul 2025
Answer published
Ofsted paused routine inspections in mid-March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Full Early Years Register inspections restarted in May 2021, including a number of unannounced inspections detailed below.Between 1 April 2021 - 31 March 2022 there were 1,2...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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