§ Mr. Don FosterTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, pursuant to his answer of 11 February 1999,Official Report, column 336, on nursery education, what percentage of three-year-olds in each of the local education authorities listed (a) currently have (i) free full-time early education places and (ii) free part-time early education places and (b) will have (i) free full-time early education places and (ii) free part-time early education places when the promised additional places are provided. [89751]
§ Ms HodgeThe information is not available in the form requested. Participation rates for individual ages cannot be provided at local education authority level as the underlying population estimates are not sufficiently reliable.
Each three-year-old offered one of the additional free places will be eligible to receive five sessions of early education per week.