During an oral evidence held today, the committee's chair Lord Sutherland said [the committee] will ask the childcare and education minister Sam Gyimah, who is due to give evidence next week, about these issues.
He said that the House of Lords committee has heard from a lot of witnesses about how early education funding does not cover the cost of places for many early years settings.
His comment followed a question by Baroness Tyler to Lena Levy, head of Labour market policy at the Confederation of British Industry (CBI), who was giving evidence, about whether their proposals to offer free childcare to all one- to- four-year-olds takes into account the current underfunding of provision for three- and four-year-olds.
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