Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, which local authorities have applied to her Department to dis-apply the early years national funding formula high pass-through requirement until 2019-20; and which local authorities have been successful in such applications.
Five local authorities have requested consideration of a disapplication of the high
pass-through of the Government’s early years funding to providers. These requests are currently being considered and the local authorities will be notified of our decision as soon as possible.