Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of total funding on the funded early education offer for (a) two, (b) three and (c) four year olds is spent in (i) PVI settings, (ii) maintained settings and (iii) childminder settings in the latest year for which data is available.
We plan to spend around £3.5 billion on our early education entitlements this year alone – more than any other government.
The department publishes data from local authority planned early years budget in the early years funding benchmarking tool.
The tool provides a breakdown of spend by early years provider types, including budget information for private, voluntary and independent (PVI) setting and maintained settings for 2 year olds and 3-4 year olds.
Budget information for childminders are included within the PVI total budget. The data is as reported by the local authorities and the latest data from 2018-19 is available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/early-years-benchmarking-tool.