Question follow-through · 124228
Pre-school Education: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department has considered moving from a term-time funding model to a year-round model for early years entitlements.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 26 Mar 2026
- Target answer date
- 13 Apr 2026
- Answer
- 13 Apr 2026 · 18 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
26 Mar 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department has considered moving from a term-time funding model to a year-round model for early years entitlements.
13 Apr 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
13 Apr 2026
Answer published
It is our 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.Children become eligible for the working parent entitlement...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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