Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people have been registered for the tax-free childcare scheme in each of the last three years.

Statistics relating to Tax-Free Childcare account usage are published quarterly in “Tax-Free Childcare Statistics” on the gov.uk website. The latest publication, containing information up to December 2021 is here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/tax-free-childcare-quarterly-statistics

Table 7 of the publication shows the number of families, by Government Office Region, that have a Tax-Free Childcare account. The table below shows the number of accounts that are open, regardless of whether or not they have been used.

Families with Open Tax-Free Childcare accounts: