Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of early years foundation stage providers have been assessed as (a) outstanding, (b) good, (c) satisfactory and (d) inadequate in (i) each region in England and (ii) England.

Ofsted is the non-ministerial government department responsible for the regulation of early education and childcare providers and publishes a regular series of statistics relating to inspection of this provision on its website, which can be viewed from this link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ofsted/about/statistics

We have informed Ofsted of this question and Her Majesty's Chief Inspector will be writing to the hon. Member in response. A copy of that letter will be placed in the libraries of the House.