The fees that nurseries and childminders are required to pay each year to continue their registration on the Early Years and Childcare Registers are set by the Government and have not risen since 2010.
Ofsted annual fees currently range from £35 for childminders to £220 for group settings and are subsidised by central Government.
However, Treasury guidance states that all regulators should recover the economic costs of what they do through the fees they charge, which is why the minister intends to consult on the matter.
The Department for Education confirmed that increases will be phased in and will not start until April 2017. After the full level of increases have taken effect the DfE said that the expectation would be that all fees would still be subsidised by over 60 per cent of full cost.
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