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Mrs. Maria Miller: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what guidance his Department gives local authorities to promote the childcare sustainability grant to childcare providers. [199876]

Beverley Hughes: The Department's statutory guidance, “Securing Sufficient Childcare”, which was distributed to local authorities in summer 2007, contains examples of circumstances in which they should consider providing financial support from the Sure Start, Early Years and Childcare Grant for childcare providers. While it is for local authorities to decide their own priorities for funding providers, and how they publicise the availability of funding, the guidance makes clear the need to demonstrate “transparency and fairness”.

Local authorities are told that they

“should ensure that appropriate criteria are in place for deciding which providers should receive support, and that funding systems treat providers in all sectors of the market equitably”.

Mrs. Maria Miller: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how much his Department allocates to each local authority for the childcare sustainability grant; and what indicators are used to assess how much each local authority should receive in respect of the grant. [199897]

Beverley Hughes: In the 2006-08 period, funding for this activity was included as part of Sure Start, Early Years and Childcare Grant which covered not only child care sustainability but support for early years outcomes, quality and inclusion. A number of different factors were used to determine the allocations, including numbers of children, deprivation measures, Ofsted registered stock figures, and rurality measures. In addition, for the 2008-11 period, an inflationary uplift was added to this
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wider allocation block above and the resulting funding was split equally between child care sufficiency and access and early years outcomes, quality and inclusion. These funding streams sit within the wider revenue block of the Sure Start, Early Years and Childcare Grant and the overall allocations were smoothed to ensure that each authority received a minimum increase of 5 per cent.

The 2008-09 allocations, by authority, are shown in the following table.

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Sure Start, Early Years and Childcare Grant: Childcare Sufficiency and Access Funding, 2008-09
	£
Barking and Dagenham	406,977
Barnet	791,906
Barnsley	540,409
Bath and North East Somerset	371,612
Bedfordshire	910,435
Bexley	503,471
Birmingham	2,819,672
Blackburn with Darwen	766,870
Blackpool	349,044
Bolton	702,894
Bournemouth	391,687
Bracknell Forest	256,045
Bradford	1,282,566
Brent	597,230
Brighton and Hove	567,103
Bristol	976,036
Bromley	740,285
Buckinghamshire	1,254,645
Bury	531,676
Calderdale	551,502
Cambridgeshire	1,467,051
Camden	500,316
Cheshire	1,579,483
City of London	89,607
Cornwall	1,061,627
Coventry	810,119
Croydon	840,075
Cumbria	973,830
Darlington	280,965
Derby	602,785
Derbyshire	1,574,419
Devon	1,466,131
Doncaster	691,640
Dorset	720,426
Dudley	655,626
Durham	1,131,249
Ealing	741,495
East Riding of Yorkshire	682,454
East Sussex	1,062,222
Enfield	602,110
Essex	2,916,612
Gateshead	505,540
Gloucestershire	1,349,268
Greenwich	638,101
Hackney	663,740
Halton	585,708
Hammersmith and Fulham	383,577
Hampshire	2,924,575
Haringey	561,050
Harrow	444,783
Hartlepool	300,336
Havering	484,970
Herefordshire	391,717
Hertfordshire	2,687,393
Hillingdon	578,208
Hounslow	513,755
Isle of Wight	301,393
Isles of Scilly	67,485
Islington	579,570
Kensington and Chelsea	386,679
Kent	3,079,754
Kingston upon Hull	593,823
Kingston upon Thames	362,413
Kirklees	1,041,375
Knowsley	446,859
Lambeth	748,965
Lancashire	2,748,524
Leeds	1,716,504
Leicester City	809,577
Leicestershire	1,367,999
Lewisham	710,780
Lincolnshire	1,370,260
Liverpool	1,124,985
Luton	517,813
Manchester	1,120,447
Medway	567,324
Merton	441,959
Middlesbrough	557,832
Milton Keynes	597,734
NE Lincolnshire	425,160
Newcastle upon Tyne	669,703
Newham	854,138
Norfolk	1,581,566
North Lincolnshire	351,449
North Somerset	459,330
North Tyneside	445,466
North Yorkshire	1,302,625
Northamptonshire	1,584,537
Northumberland	704,945
Nottingham City	670,369
Nottinghamshire	1,676,706
Oldham	616,635
Oxfordshire	1,522,554
Peterborough	516,738
Plymouth	600,584
Poole	296,946
Portsmouth	499,713
Reading	372,658
Redbridge	537,595
Redcap and Cleveland	509,609
Richmond upon Thames	441,101
Rochdale	577,312
Rotherham	577,665
Rutland	138,736
Salford	555,569
Sandwell	665,165
Sefton	610,600
Sheffield	1,188,059
Shropshire	676,628
Slough	324,548
Solihull	562,854
Somerset	1,162,040
South Gloucestershire	636,318
South Tyneside	570,524
Southampton	515,286
Southend	399,405
Southwark	860,074
St. Helens	493,513
Staffordshire	1,967,330
Stockport	624,846
Stockton-on-Tees	467,888
Stoke on Trent	668,842
Suffolk	1,547,758
Sunderland	917,188
Surrey	2,518,131
Sutton	445,871
Swindon	497,421
Tameside	550,028
Telford and the Wrekin	446,962
Thurrock	363,322
Torbay	336,661
Tower Hamlets	752,138
Trafford	507,372
Wakefield	703,744
Walsall	610,569
Waltham Forest	577,321
Wandsworth	615,646
Warrington	554,554
Warwickshire	1,210,685
West Berkshire	398,313
West Sussex	1,689,972
Westminster	406,986
Wigan	684,213
Wiltshire	1,079,461
Windsor and Maidenhead	366,393
Wirral	793,175
Wokingham	362,337
Wolverhampton	598,033
Worcestershire	1,325,067
York	349,363

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