Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many (a) two (b) three and (c) four year olds have attended maintained nursery schools in each of the last five years.
Information about schools and pupils is published in the annual ‘Schools, pupils and their characteristics’ statistical release: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/schools-pupils-and-their-characteristics-january-2017.
Data for each school is available under ‘Underlying data: SFR28/2017’ of the annual ‘Schools, pupils and their characteristics’ statistical release, contained within the sub file ‘SFR28_2017_Schools_Pupils_UD’. The figures can be filtered by phase-type grouping, including state-funded nursery (column N), and full age breakdown (columns AC to AI, BA to BG, BY to CE, CW to DC).
Information about earlier years can be found at https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-school-and-pupil-numbers.