Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many nurseries closed in each district and unitary local authority area in Lancashire in 2014.
Ofsted is responsible for operating the register of providers of childcare and early years education and publishes statistics twice yearly. These statistics include figures for the number of providers in local authority areas that leave the register and are available on the Ofsted website: www.gov.uk/government/statistics/registered-childcare-providers-and-places-in-england-december-2008-onwards