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Childcare
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department has provided guidance to local authorities on (a) forecasting and (b) meeting childcare demand in areas of rapid population growth.
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 29 Aug 2025
- Target answer date
- 3 Sept 2025
- Answer
- 4 Sept 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
29 Aug 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department has provided guidance to local authorities on (a) forecasting and (b) meeting childcare demand in areas of rapid population growth.
3 Sept 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
4 Sept 2025
Answer published
It is the department’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. The government is boosting availability and i...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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