Vicky Ford told a parliamentary debate on the funding of childcare that "the outcomes of such a review would not be able to feed into the spending review which is happening at this time".
The Department for Education is “already pressing the importance of early years and childcare across government”, she added.
The CSR will be announced on 27 October.
Ford also dismissed figures put forward by the National Day Nurseries Association (NDNA) that show a 35 per cent increase in the closure of childcare settings between April 2020 and March this year.
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