Question to the Department for Education:

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

On 19 December 2017, the department published ’30 hours free childcare: autumn term 2017’ which showed that in the first term of delivery, an estimated 1,143 children were in a 30 hours place in Coventry – this was 97% of those issued with a 30 hours eligibility code.

As of 8 January 2018, 1,786 30 hours eligibility codes had been issued in Coventry for the spring term and 1,445 of these codes had been validated via the department’s eligibility checking system. This data was published in the management information release: ‘30 hours free childcare eligibility codes issued and validated: January 2018’, available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/30-hours-free-childcare-eligibility-codes-issued-and-validated.

Information on codes generated and validated is broken down to a local authority level, not a constituency level, therefore data on the wider Coventry South constituency is not held centrally.

We will continue to publish regular management Information on the rollout of 30 hours free childcare at a national and local level.