Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what target her Department has set for the number of 30-free hours of childcare eligibility codes to be generated for the January term.
We are expecting to issue a total of 310,000 30 hours eligibility codes by 31 December 2017 for the spring term. We anticipate we may exceed this target given the popularity of 30 hours free childcare we observed in the autumn term.
Further information relating to 30 hours codes issued for the spring term will be issued in a future management information release. These can be found at: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/30-hours-free-childcare-eligibility-codes-issued-and-validated.