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Childcare: West Dorset

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that childcare places are available to parents eligible for the extended funded hours under the new childcare scheme in West Dorset constituency.

answeredDepartment for Education

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Answering body: Department for Education
Tabled: 18 Jul 2025
Target answer date: 22 Jul 2025
Answer: 31 Jul 2025 · 13 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

18 Jul 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that childcare places are available to parents eligible for the extended funded hours under the new childcare scheme in West Dorset constituency.
22 Jul 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
31 Jul 2025
Answer published
It is the department’s ambition that all families have access to high quality, affordable early education and care, giving every child the best start in life and delivering on our Plan for Change. In 2025/26 alone, we plan to provide over £8 billion for t...

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