Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate his Department has made of the average per-hour cost of childcare (a) in a nursery and (b) with a child minder in (i) York Central constituency, (ii) City of York local authority area and (iii) England in each year since 2015.

The Government published data on the cost of delivering childcare in England for 2015 and 2018.

The average hourly costs of delivery are attached, with the respective publications from which the data is sourced.

The values in the attached table come from different sources, which used different methodologies and samples, and so their comparability is limited.

The Government does not hold data relating specifically to the York Central constituency or the City of York local authority area, nor does it hold this data relating to 2016 and 2017.