§ Mr. HoyleTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many day care places in nurseries have been created in Chorley since 1997. [4362]
§ Mr. TimmsEarly Years Development and Childcare Partnerships have only provided details of the new child care places that have opened by constituency since April 1999. Between April 1999 and March 2001 Lancashire Early Years Development and Childcare Partnership has reported the creation of 267 day care places' in the constituency of Chorley.
245W1 This figure includes day care places created in day nurseries, pre-schools and playgroups. No separate figure is available for nurseries only.
§ Mr. HoyleTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many out of school hours child care places have been created since 1997; and how much money has been provided for them in Chorley. [4363]
§ Mr. TimmsEarly Years Development and Childcare Partnerships have only provided details of the new child care places that have opened by constituency since April 1999. Between April 1999 and March 2001 Lancashire Early Years Development and Childcare Partnership has reported the creation of 322 new out of school hours places1 in Chorley.
We are not able to identify the exact amount of funding made available to support these out of school places. Since April 1999 the New Opportunities Fund has made four awards totalling over £947,000 in response to applications for funding from the Chorley area for out of school child care projects. However, two of these were consortium bids covering the whole of Lancashire. In addition since April 1999, Lancashire Early Years Development and Childcare Partnership has spent around £404,000 of Childcare Grant to fund new out of school hours childcare places across the county.
1 Data include places created in out of school clubs and holiday schemes.