Question reference: S5W-25751
- Asked by: Beatrice Wishart, MSP for Shetland Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: 9 October 2019
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Current status: Answered by Maree Todd on 6 November 2019
Question
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-24895 by Maree Todd on 23 September 2019, whether the forecast that around 60% of the estimated eligible two-year-old population will access more than 600 hours of funded early learning and childcare by April 2021 assumes that it will have the UK Government administrative data about potentially eligible households, and by what date it expects that this will be available.
Answer
The Scottish Government has regular and extensive dialogues with DWP on data sharing for a range of purposes, one of which is to establish the eligible 2-year-old population at Scotland level. Regular updates are requested inside our ongoing working relationship. DWP are not currently able to provide an expected date for sharing this data. In the meantime, we are working with estimates of the eligible population derived from available sources.