Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of families in Southampton, Itchen constituency make use of the 15-hours a week of free childcare for three and four-year olds.

The numbers of three- and four-year-olds accessing funded early years education, by local authority, is available on the Department’s website at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/education-provision-children-under-5-years-of-age-january-2016