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1. Step 1

   • Publication: Planned LA and school expenditure

2. Step 2

   • Data set: Early years - unrounded data

3. Step 3

   • National:
     • England

4. Step 4

   • Time period: 2017-18 to 2023-24

5. Step 5

   • Indicators:
     • Average base rate for entitlement hours for 2 year olds (spend per hour)
     • Average base rate for entitlement hours for 3 and 4 year olds (spend per hour)
     • Average funding rate for 2 year olds (spend per hour)
     • Average funding rate for 3 and 4 year olds (spend per hour)
     • Number of hours funded for 2 year olds (millions)

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   'Early years - unrounded data' in England between 2017-18 and 2023-24

   	2017-18	2018-19	2019-20	2020-21	2021-22	2022-23	2023-24
   Average base rate for entitlement hours for 2 year olds (spend per hour)	£5.26	£5.27	£5.29	x	£5.27	£5.63	£5.87
   Average base rate for entitlement hours for 3 and 4 year olds (spend per hour)	£7.23	£4.27	£4.28	x	£4.44	£4.59	£4.80
   Average funding rate for 2 year olds (spend per hour)	£5.28	£5.30	£5.33	x	£5.31	£5.67	£5.92
   Average funding rate for 3 and 4 year olds (spend per hour)	£7.87	£4.63	£4.66	x	£4.80	£4.98	£5.26
   Number of hours funded for 2 year olds (millions)	92,093,431	89,499,367	86,019,424	x	79,579,392	71,683,112	74,748,130
   Number of hours funded for 3 and 4 year olds (millions)	338,280,303	627,870,882	629,527,681	x	641,563,705	605,547,554	624,086,643
   Other spend on early education - budget for extra local hours for 3 and 4 year olds	£9,587,726	£3,069,976	£3,762,560	x	£235,454	£179,338	£1,703,537
   Other spend on early education - centrally retained budget for 2 year olds	£11,518,362	£8,247,108	£9,269,116	x	£7,695,297	£7,602,963	£7,587,029
   Other spend on early education - centrally retained budget for 3 and 4 year olds	£127,829,484	£118,929,616	£118,280,590	x	£114,867,322	£124,260,938	£128,309,011
   Other spend on early education - contingency budget for 2 year olds	£3,852,410	£4,874,216	£3,888,694	x	£2,413,889	£1,874,565	£2,277,500
   Other spend on early education - contingency budget for 3 and 4 year olds	£35,842,533	£39,989,234	£30,435,346	x	£21,084,461	£17,245,109	£25,774,716
   Other spend on early education - disability access fund for 3 and 4 year olds	£12,446,550	£12,651,487	£14,395,915	x	£14,607,335	£18,379,152	£21,107,703
   Other spend on early education - early years pupil premium for 3 and 4 year olds	£31,836,918	£30,875,090	£28,662,086	x	£29,644,671	£36,231,095	£40,653,777
   SEN inclusion fund - from early years block funding for 2 year olds	x	x	£2,429,781	x	£2,239,203	£2,278,197	£2,651,688
   SEN inclusion fund - from early years block funding for 3 and 4 year olds	x	x	£47,376,188	x	£48,008,059	£57,160,483	£62,968,169
   SEN inclusion fund - from high needs block funding for 2 year olds	x	x	£824,316	x	£669,926	£773,694	£1,291,391
   SEN inclusion fund - from high needs block funding for 3 and 4 year olds	x	x	£14,517,956	x	£15,966,017	£18,226,975	£21,404,993
   Total SEN inclusion fund for 2 year olds	£1,891,868	£2,516,595	£3,254,097	x	£2,909,129	£3,051,891	£3,943,079
   Total SEN inclusion fund for 3 and 4 year olds	£48,264,745	£49,755,326	£61,894,144	x	£63,974,076	£75,387,457	£84,373,161
   Total planned spend via early years single funding formula (EYSFF) - 2 year olds	£483,987,967	£471,747,276	£455,024,202	x	£419,539,656	£403,655,204	£438,722,774
   Total planned spend via early years single funding formula (EYSFF) - 3 and 4 year olds	£2,614,264,609	£2,859,831,572	£2,869,659,309	x	£3,018,323,299	£2,938,914,396	£3,195,708,626

   Footnotes

   1. To reduce burdens on local authorities during the COVID-19 pandemic, data for 2020-21 was not collected.

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   • Publication: Planned LA and school expenditure, Financial year 2023-24

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