Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the total expenditure on the early years pupil premium was in (a) 2016-17 and (b) 2015-16.

Early years pupil premium funding for all local authorities in England and in total can be found within the dedicated schools grant tables at the links below:

2016-17:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dedicated-schools-grant-dsg-2016-to-2017.

2015-16:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dedicated-schools-grant-dsg-2015-to-2016.