Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether the Government will meet the costs of changes associated with employer contributions to the Teachers' Pensions Schemes for maintained nursery schools.

The Department’s public consultation to gather evidence on the impact of increased contributions to the Teachers' Pension Scheme (TPS) for all TPS employers, which included the initial proposal to fund Maintained Nursery Schools for 2019/20, closed on 12 February 2019. Final funding decisions will be made in due course, once consultation evidence has been reviewed.