Question follow-through · 111566
Pre-school Education: Rural Areas
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential implications of rural early years provision in sustaining village communities and preventing rural depopulation on her Department's funding policy for early years.
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 6 Feb 2026
- Target answer date
- 10 Feb 2026
- Answer
- 23 Feb 2026 · 17 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
6 Feb 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential implications of rural early years provision in sustaining village communities and preventing rural depopulation on her Department's funding policy for early years.
10 Feb 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
23 Feb 2026
Answer published
In 2026/27, the department expects to provide over £9.5 billion for the early years entitlements, more than doubling annual public investment in the early years sector compared to 2023/24, as we have successfully rolled out the expansion of government-fun...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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