Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when he plans to provide updated funding formulas for maintained nursery schools.

Local authorities are responsible for funding maintained nursery schools in their area. We are providing supplementary funding of approximately £60 million a year to enable local authorities to protect maintained nursery school funding until 2019-20. Budgets after 2019-20 will be set at the next Spending Review.