Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 30 November 2017 to Question 115754, on children: day care, on what date she expects a contractor to be appointed.

We have signed a letter of intent with a consortium of Frontier Economics, researchers from the University of East London and NatCen Social Research to undertake the year one evaluation of 30 hours free childcare policy. The contract will be signed in January with fieldwork commencing soon after.