Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many parents in each local authority area are eligible for tax-free childcare; and how many parents have signed up to the childcare choices website to access that scheme.

I refer the honourable member to my response to my response to a Parliamentary Question (106916) on 16 October, which gives the number of live Tax-Free Childcare accounts.

The table below shows the estimated number of families with a youngest child aged under 7, 8, 9, and 10-11 who will be eligible for Tax-Free Childcare in 2018/19. However, not all of these families will use formal childcare or will be better off on Tax-Free Childcare and take-up is therefore expected to be lower.

On 15 November the government announced that Tax-Free childcare will be fully rolled out to all eligible parents by the end of March 2018.

Eligibility projections for Tax-Free Childcare cannot be broken down by Local Authority.