Children: Day Care

Department for Education written question – answered at on 16 April 2018.

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Photo of Tracy Brabin Tracy Brabin Shadow Minister (Education)

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to paragraph 86 of the Ninth Report of Session 2017-19 of the Treasury Select Committee, HC 757, whether the funding arrangements for the 2018-19 academic year take into consideration the increase in the national minimum wage and auto-enrolment into workplace pensions.

Photo of Nadhim Zahawi Nadhim Zahawi The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Education

By 2019 – 2020, we will be spending around £6 billion on childcare support, including £1 billion a year to deliver the 30 hour childcare entitlement and fund the increase in rates that we introduced in April 2017. Our increased level of funding was based on our comprehensive “Review of Childcare Costs” which looked at both the current costs of childcare provision and the implications of future cost pressures. The Review was described as “thorough and wide ranging” by the National Audit Office. We front-loaded our funding increases, rather than staggering them over time, so that providers could benefit from them as soon as possible. We continue to monitor delivery costs and have commissioned new research to provide us with robust and detailed cost data from a representative sample of early years providers.

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