Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many eligibility codes for 30 hours of free childcare have been (a) generated and (b) validated in Telford and Wrekin.

The number of eligibility codes for 30 hours free childcare that have generated and validated in Telford and Wrekin, as of data published on 8 January, is in the table below:

Please note, codes issued relates to the local authority where the parent is resident. Codes validated relates to the local authority where the code was checked. These are not always the same as some parents may use the code in a bordering local authority.