Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much funding his Department has committed to early years nursery education in (a) England, (b) North West of England, (c) Greater Manchester and (d) Denton and Reddish constituency in financial year (i) 2017-18, (ii) 2018-19 and (iii) 2019-20.

Funding for the free early years’ entitlements is allocated on a local council basis. Provisional allocations for 2017-18 can be found here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dedicated-schools-grant-dsg-2017-to-2018.

Funding allocations for 2018-19 and 2019-20 will be announced in due course.