Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has made a recent estimate of the cost of nursery places in (a) North Yorkshire County and (b) the City of York.

The department’s Childcare and early years provider survey 2023 showed that the mean hourly rates for the cost of nursery places in North Yorkshire and the City of York were as follows:

North Yorkshire: 2 year olds:

• £5.55

City of York: 2 year olds:

• £5.20

North Yorkshire: 3 to 4 year olds:

• £5.26

City of York: 3 to 4 year olds:

• £5.26

The department does not currently collate data broken down at this level for under 2s. The mean hourly rate for under 2s for Yorkshire and the Humber was £5.15.