Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much her Department will spend on 30 funded hours childcare in the 2017-18 financial year.

Funding for the free early years’ entitlements is published in the Dedicated Schools Grant allocations. Indicative allocations for 30 hours, which cover a seven month period in 2017-18, can be found here:

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