To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether he has made an estimate of the affordability of childcare provision in the Slough constituency.
Answered on
19 October 2022
The department is committed to improving the cost, choice, and availability of childcare. We continue to look at ways to make childcare more affordable and to encourage families to use government-funded support they are entitled to.
The department collects data on the main characteristics of childcare and early years provision in England and fees data can be broken down to local authority level. The latest data shows the average hourly fee for childcare in Slough to be £6.00 for two-year-old children and £5.75 for three and four-year-old children.
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Department for Education
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