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Parents: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to financially support parents of children who attend nursery.

answeredCameron ThomasDepartment for Education

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Answering body
Department for Education
Tabled
29 Aug 2025
Target answer date
2 Sept 2025
Answer
9 Oct 2025 · 41 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 29 Aug 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to financially support parents of children who attend nursery.

  2. 2 Sept 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 9 Oct 2025

    Answer published

    It is the government’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.To support parents with the cost of childcare,...

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