{"value":{"id":628115,"askingMemberId":4518,"askingMember":null,"house":"Commons","memberHasInterest":false,"dateTabled":"2016-11-03T00:00:00","dateForAnswer":"2016-11-08T00:00:00","uin":"51818","questionText":"To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential effect of increases in inflation on the new early years national funding formula.","answeringBodyId":60,"answeringBodyName":"Department for Education","isWithdrawn":false,"isNamedDay":true,"groupedQuestions":[],"answerIsHolding":false,"answerIsCorrection":false,"answeringMemberId":4008,"answeringMember":null,"correctingMemberId":null,"correctingMember":null,"dateAnswered":"2016-11-08T00:00:00","answerText":"<p>This Government is investing £1 billion of additional funding per year in the early years free entitlements, including £300 million per year to increase the national average funding rate. This record level of investment was based on a rich source of evidence – the ‘Review of Childcare Costs’ (available at <a href=\"https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/review-of-childcare-costs\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/review-of-childcare-costs</a>). The Review looked at both the current costs of childcare provision and the implications of future cost pressures facing the sector.</p>","originalAnswerText":"","comparableAnswerText":"","dateAnswerCorrected":null,"dateHoldingAnswer":null,"attachmentCount":0,"heading":"Pre-school Education: Finance","attachments":[],"groupedQuestionsDates":[]},"links":[{"rel":"self","href":"/Questions/628115","method":"GET"}]}