PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Children: Day Care (25 September 2019)

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate he has made of the number of children accessing the 15-hours free childcare scheme for disadvantaged two-year-olds in (a) East Hampshire constituency, (b) Hampshire local authority area and (c) England in each year since its inception.

Asked by:
Damian Hinds (Conservative)

The number of 2-year-old children benefiting from funded early education in Hampshire local authority and England are shown in the table below. Data is not published at parliamentary consistency level.

Number of 2-year-old children benefiting from funded early education 2014-2019 Hampshire local authority and England

	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019
Hampshire	1,450	2,420	2,440	2,410	2,310	2,210
England	86,640	157,040	166,920	163,250	154,960	148,750

Source: Early Years Census (EYC), School Census (SC), and School Level Annual School Census (SLASC)

(1) Count of children aged 2 at 31 December in the previous calendar year.

(2) Any child attending more than one provider will have only been counted once.

(3) Includes general hospital schools and excludes pupil referral units.

Answered by:
Nick Gibb (Conservative)
4 October 2019