Pre-school Education: Buckinghamshire
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the projected allocation of the expansion grant for early education providers in (a) Milton Keynes and (b) Buckinghamshire will be for financial year 2025-26.
Answered by Stephen Morgan
In 2025/26, the government plan to spend over £8 billion on the early years entitlements. This government has increased the early years pupil premium by 45% and are providing further supplementary funding of £75 million for the Early Years Expansion Grant.
Buckinghamshire will receive £834,187 and Milton Keynes will receive £430,010 in Early Years Expansion Grant funding. We have now published full details of allocations and conditions of grant, which are available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/early-years-expansion-grant-2025-to-2026.
We expect local authorities to communicate all funding allocations to providers within six weeks of the publication of rates, that is by 10 April 2025.
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