Children: Day Care

(asked on 22nd January 2018) - View Source

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 21 December to Question 120073 on Children: Day Care, what information his Department holds on households who will receive less financial support as a result of the replacement of childcare vouchers with tax-free childcare.


Answered by
Elizabeth Truss Portrait
Elizabeth Truss
This question was answered on 29th January 2018

Whereas currently around 600,000 families are in receipt of childcare vouchers, we estimate that 1.5 million families with childcare costs will be eligible for Tax-free Childcare.

Parents in receipt of childcare vouchers will be able to continue to claim vouchers when the scheme closes to new entrants in April 2018, whilst they work for the same employer and that employer continues to offer them.

If they switch employer, they will be eligible for Tax-free childcare if they have a child under the age of 12 and they and their partner, if they have one, each earn at least the equivalent of the National Living Wage for 16 hours a week and no more than £100,000 a year.

We do not hold information on how many parents in receipt of vouchers are expected to switch employers.

As of 19 January 2018, the helpline had received 769,015 calls from parents.

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