Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make it her policy to increase the national minimum fostering allowance to take into account the cost of childcare.

Foster carers play a vital role in supporting some of our most vulnerable children. It is right that foster carers receive the support they need to meet the needs of the children they look after. At present, foster carers are able to access the universal 15 hours of free childcare.