Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 30 October 2017 to Question 109339, if she will take into account information from the independent published evaluation of early implementation on the income of families benefiting from the 30 free hours of childcare policy when assessing the effectiveness of that policy.

The department is using the findings from the early implementation evaluation, published in July, including those on parental income to assess the effectiveness of the policy.

We will also be drawing on the independent evaluation of the first two terms of national rollout to assess the effectiveness of the policy further. It is intended that this evaluation will collect data from parents, including their household income.