Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the gross local authority expenditure was on Sure Start Children's Centres and early years provision in each local authority area in each year since 2010.

Since April 2010 local authorities have reported expenditure on children’s centres (combined with early years) through annual Section 251 returns. This information is published at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-local-authority-school-finance-data#local-authority-and-school-finance

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/section-251-materials.

Planned expenditure on early years provision in each local authority is published at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-local-authority-school-finance-data#planned-local-authority-and-school-spending-

Early years expenditure was not separately recorded until 2013-14, therefore data is not available for 2010 to 2013. Prior to 2013-14, early years funding was part of the total dedicated schools grant allocated to each local authority.