Lucy Powell – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Education

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lucy Powell on 2014-03-26.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when (a) he and (b) Ministers in his Department last visited a private, voluntary or independent sector childcare setting in an official capacity.

Elizabeth Truss

Records show that the most recent visits undertaken to PVI provision by Ministers in the Department for Education are as follows.

I visited Little Rainbows Day Nursery on 20 March 2014. My Rt. Hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Education, visited Norwood Kennedy Leigh Family Centre in November 2013.

It should be noted that we do not keep records of the specific business model of every nursery or childcare setting Ministers visit. Therefore, it is possible that other visits have been undertaken, details of which are not held centrally.