Children: Day Care

(asked on 26th March 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much his Department spent on (a) the universal 15 hours of free childcare for three to four-year olds, (b) the extended entitlement for eligible three to four-year old children of working parents and (c) free childcare for two year olds in 2016-17.


Answered by
Nadhim Zahawi Portrait
Nadhim Zahawi
This question was answered on 1st April 2019

The total final dedicated schools grant funding allocations for 2016-17 were:

  • £2.22 billion for the universal 15 hours of free childcare for 3 to 4-year-olds;

  • Nil for the extended entitlement for 3 to 4-year-old children of working parents (the extended entitlement was introduced in September 2017); and

  • £454 million for the free childcare entitlement for 2-year-olds.

Full details can be found in the first attachment at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dedicated-schools-grant-dsg-2016-to-2017.

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