Question follow-through · 76776

Pre-school Education: Disadvantaged

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will publish data on the take-up of funded early years places by disadvantaged children by local authority.

answeredDepartment for Education

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Answering body
Department for Education
Tabled
11 Sept 2025
Target answer date
15 Sept 2025
Answer
3 Oct 2025 · 22 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 11 Sept 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will publish data on the take-up of funded early years places by disadvantaged children by local authority.

  2. 15 Sept 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 3 Oct 2025

    Answer published

    The latest accredited official statistics release entitled ‘Funded early education and childcare’ for January 2025 was published on 17 July 2025. A minor correction was made on 31 July, as noted on the publication page. Dataset 3 in this release shows n...

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