Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent estimate her Department has made of the number of parents with a code for 30 hours free childcare that has not yet been validated.

On 12 October 2017, the Department for Education published data that set out the number of eligibility codes issued for 30 hours free childcare by 31 August 2017 and the number of codes validated by 9 October 2017. This release of data can be found at https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/651185/30-hours_childcare_management_information_October_2017_update.pdf.