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Since January 2016, real-time data on Sure Start children’s centres and sites has been supplied by local authorities via the Department’s Ed

I refer the hon.

The number of initial requests for assessment for an EHC plan that were refused during the 2016 calendar, by local authority, is available i

A list of academy trusts paying staff more than £150,000 will be included in the 2015/16 Academy Sector Annual Report and Accounts (SARA), w

The national rollout of 30 hours free childcare marks the delivery of a manifesto commitment that will help hundreds of thousands of hard wo

The funding for newly-assessed high needs pupils is decided by each local authority.

I do not want to disappoint my hon. Friend, but we are not in the business of encouraging top-ups.

This system helps people precisely like that, because it is not a system where people pay and reclaim—the money is reimbursed to the nursery

We have talked a lot about nurseries, but I must make it clear that there is flexibility in this scheme.

I absolutely recognise the importance of the maintained sector.