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Written question asked by Matthew Pennycook (Labour) on Thursday, 12 July 2018, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 16 July 2018. It was answered by Nadhim Zahawi (Conservative) on Friday, 20 July 2018 on behalf of the Department for Education.

Pre-school Education: Finance

Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether his Department provides support for maintained nurseries to formulate their three-year budgets beyond 2020.

Answer

We are providing supplementary funding of around £60 million a year to enable local authorities to protect maintained nursery school (MNS) funding until 2019-20. It is for local authorities to set the rates paid to maintained nursery schools. This supplementary funding provides MNS with stability whilst we develop a long-term solution for them. An important part of this will be understanding the value for money that they offer, and new research will report on this later in the year.

MNS also benefit from our increased hourly rates paid to local authorities to deliver the 15 hour free entitlement for disadvantaged two-year-olds. From April 2017, all local authorities saw 7% increases in their funding rates for two-year-olds.

Future funding decisions after 2019-20 will be set at the next spending review.

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
163606
Session
2017-19
Grouped for answer
Yes
Subjects
Finance Pre-school education
Link
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