Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 5 December 2017 to Question 116945, on children: day care, whether that contract has been signed; and whether the composition of the working group remains the same.
The department will be signing the contract to undertake the year one evaluation of 30 hours’ free childcare policy by the end of January. The consortium of Frontier Economics, researchers from the University of East London and NatCen Social Research remains the same.