Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate his Department has made of the number of Children’s Centre places provided in (a) 2018-19 and (b) 2019-20.

Information on the number of funded entitlement childcare places provided in Sure Start Children’s Centres in 2018 is available in table 12 and 14 at: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/education-provision-children-under-5-years-of-age-january-2018.

Data for 2019 is not yet available.

Since 18 September 2017, data on Sure Start children’s centres has been supplied by local authorities via the department’s 'Get information about schools' database portal at: https://www.get-information-schools.service.gov.uk/.

Based on information supplied by local authorities as at 31 March 2019, there were 2,353 main Children's Centres and a further 700 additional sites (giving a total of 3,053 children’s centre sites) open to families and children providing children's centre services as part of a network.