Children: Day Care

(asked on 16th November 2017) - View Source

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many of the 275,000 parents who have an open childcare account are eligible for tax-free childcare.


Answered by
Elizabeth Truss Portrait
Elizabeth Truss
This question was answered on 21st November 2017

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.

Age of youngest child

Families eligible for TFC

Under 7

1,580,000

7

160,000

8

170,000

9

140,000

10-11

200,000

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.

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