Question follow-through · 102198
Pre-school Education: Fees and Charges
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what analysis her Department has undertaken on the relationship between early years entitlement funding rates and levels of parental fees charged above entitlement hours.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 2 Jan 2026
- Target answer date
- 6 Jan 2026
- Answer
- 8 Jan 2026 · 6 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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Recorded timeline
2 Jan 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what analysis her Department has undertaken on the relationship between early years entitlement funding rates and levels of parental fees charged above entitlement hours.
6 Jan 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
8 Jan 2026
Answer published
The early years workforce is at the heart of the government’s mission to give every child the best start in life and deliver our Plan for Change. Our Best Start in Life strategy sets out how we are improving the quality of early education by investing in ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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