Current status: Answered by Natalie Don-Innes on 12 March 2025
To ask the Scottish Government how many additional (a) local authority- and (b) privately-run nursery places have been created in each year since 1999.
The Scottish Government does not hold this information. The number of nursery service cancellations and registrations is a matter for the Care Inspectorate. The Care Inspectorate publish data on service cancellations and registrations (available here: https://www.careinspectorate.com/index.php/statistics-and-analysis, however the published data does not go back as far as 1999.