PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Pre-school Education: Finance (6 December 2017)

By 2019-20, we will be spending around £6 billion a year on childcare support, including £1 billion a year to deliver 30 hours of free childcare and increase our hourly funding rates to local councils for the free entitlements.

The Early Years National Funding Formula is allocating our record investment fairly and transparently, so that early years providers can deliver free childcare on a sustainable and high quality basis. The government’s average hourly funding rate to local councils for three- and four-year olds compares very favourably with recently published research into the hourly cost of childcare by Frontier Economics.