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| Childminders | Full day care | Sessional day care | Out of school day care | Creche day care | All | |
| (1) Figures have been rounded to the nearest 10 if under 100, and to the nearest 100 if over 100. (2) Data Source: Ofsted | ||||||
Mr. Jamie Reed: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how much funding was provided for child care within Copeland in each of the last 10 years. [175948]
Beverley Hughes: The data on funding for child care cannot be broken down by constituency. The information provided in the following table is for Cumbria local authority.
| Child care expenditure | |
| Notes: 1. Extra funding through the School Standards Grant and Standards Fund is not included in the figures as it is not possible to identify how much of these grants are spent on the under 5s. 2. The data include Under 5s and Sure Start, Early Years and Childcare (Revenue and Capital) elements. 3. For the under 5s element included in the total three different funding methods existed between 1997-98 and 2007-08: Prior to 2003-04, Early Education funding for four-year-olds was via School Spending Assessments (SSA). Places for three-year-olds in the private, voluntary and independent (PVI) sectors were funded directly via Nursery Education Grant (NEG). New three-year-old places created in the maintained sector were funded via SSA. Between 2003-04 and 2005-06 LAs received funding to provide free nursery education for three and four-year-olds through the under-fives sub-block of their Education Formula Spending Share (EFSS). From 2006-07 LAs receive funding for all three to 15-year-olds through the DSG. Funding for under 5s is not separately identified as it is up to local authorities to decide how to distribute their funding. 4. The Sure Start Early Years and Childcare data source is audited returns from the local authority. For years up to and including 2001-02, funding allocation have been quoted as audited data are not available. | |
Danny Alexander: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families (1) what his forecast is of his Department’s spending on child care in each quarter to 2011, broken down by region; [176683]
(2) what the real term in his Department’s spending on child care was in each quarter since 1997, broken down by region. [176685]
Beverley Hughes: The information available on forecast spending to 2011 is shown in the following table.
| Expenditure forecasts | |
| £ million, cash terms | |
| Child care | |
| Notes: 1. Forecast data is not readily available below national level and is only available on an annual basis. 2. The data includes under-fives and Sure Start, early years and child care (revenue and capital) elements. 3. The data includes funding from 2008-09 for the additional 2.5 hours free entitlement for three and four-year-olds. 4. The under-fives element included in the total includes funding both from DCSF and other sources. | |
The information available on spending on child care since 1997 is shown in the following table.
| Cash | Real terms | |||
| Child care Expenditure | GDP deflator (20 December 2007) | Child care expenditure | Increase from 1997-98 | |
| Notes: 1. This information can only be provided at national level. The data is only available annually so it cannot be broken down by quarter. 2. The data includes under-fives and Sure Start, early years and child care (revenue and capital) elements. 3. The under-fives element included is for total expenditure on under-fives and will include funding both from this Department and other sources. 4. Figures have been adjusted in line with the latest GDP deflators (20 December 2007). 2006-07 has been used as the baseline. 5. 2005-06 figures are provisional. | ||||
Danny Alexander: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what estimate he has made of the average cost of child care in each quarter since 1997, broken down by region. [176684]
Beverley Hughes:
The information is not available in the form requested. Data on the average hourly costs of child care from Ofsted registered providers is collected as part of the child care and early years providers
survey. The figures on average hourly cost by region from the 2006 child care and early years providers survey are provided in the following table. Figures are not available for earlier years.
| Average hourly fees charged by region | |||||
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