Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 13 March to Question 130831, on Pre-school Education: Finance, how many local authorities allocated a quality supplement through the early years funding formula in each year since 2010.

The attached table shows the number of local authorities that allocated a quality supplement through their local formula from 2013-14 to 2017-18. Prior to 2013-14, we did not collect detailed early years budget data from local authorities.

Local authorities funding quality supplements from 2013-14 to 2017-18 for three and four year olds, and two year olds are shown in the attached table.

Local authority planned budget information for 2018-19 will be available in September 2018.

Full details on local authority planned budget information can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/section-251-materials.