Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 17 June 2014, Official Report, column 284W, on children: day care, if he will estimate the average annual cost of childcare in the UK for a child aged (a) two and under and (b) three to four using his Department's Childcare and Early Years Survey of Parents 2012-13 data.

The Childcare and Early Years Survey of Parents report provides information on the average (mean and median) amount paid by families for childcare in a reference week for pre-school age children. This information is not available broken down by age or on an annual basis.

This information could be produced only at disproportionate cost.