Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the oral contribution of the Minister of State for Children and Families of 12 October 2017, Official Report, column 210WH, how many times a validation code has been generated on the basis of a job offer.

The Department for Education does not hold information relating to the number of people that are eligible for 30 hours free childcare based on a job offer.

On the 17 July 2017, the Department for Education published an evaluation of the eight local authority areas that took part in the early innovators programme for 30 hours free childcare.

In the Early Implementer areas, almost a quarter (23%) of mothers and almost one in ten (9%) fathers increased their work hours as a result of the extended childcare offer. This effect was notably stronger for families with relatively lower incomes. The full evaluation can be found at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/30-hours-free-childcare-early-implementation-evaluation.