Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children access 30 hours childcare in maintained nursery schools.

In January 2018, 8,882 three and four-year-old children benefitted from extended early education in maintained nursery schools. This information is published in Table 3LA of the 'Provision for children under 5 years of age, January 2018' statistical publication: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/education-provision-children-under-5-years-of-age-january-2018.