Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of under-fives received early years education in maintained nursery schools in each year since 2010.

The number and proportion of 2, 3 and 4-year-olds benefitting from funded early education in maintained nursery schools since 2010 are shown in the table. This is published annually in the ‘Education provision: children under 5 years of age’ statistical first release: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/education-provision-children-under-5-years-of-age-january-2017.