Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many people who have been issued with a 30 hours eligibility code have not had their code validated due to (a) a failure to find a childcare provider willing to offer a place and (b) technical issues validating that code.
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.
The Department for Education does not hold information relating to why a parent has not yet validated their 30 hours’ eligibility code.