Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the take-up rate for early education entitlement in 2016 was for eligible (a) two and (b) three and four-year olds.

The proportion of two, three- and four-year-olds accessing funded early years education in 2016, is available within Table 1 and 2 on the Department’s website at

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/education-provision-children-under-5-years-of-age-january-2017.