Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many 30-free hours of childcare eligibility codes have been (a) generated and (b) validated in each (i) local authority and (ii) region.

216,384 eligibility codes for 30 hours free childcare were issued by 31 August for the autumn term. As of 6 November, 200,371 of these eligibility codes have been validated, as referred to in our management information release: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/30-hours-free-childcare-eligibility-codes-issued-and-validated.

On 19 December we will publish ’30 hours free childcare: Autumn term 2017’, a statistical publication on the first term of 30 hours, which will include a local council breakdown of codes issued and validated.