Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether there are circumstances in which, where parents have twins, each child is entitled to less than the standard allocation of 15 hours of free childcare per week for 38 weeks of the year.

All three- and four-year-olds and any two-year-olds who meet the eligibility criteria are entitled to a Government funded early education place of 15 hours a week for 38 weeks of the year. There are no circumstances when parents with twins who are both eligible for a funded place would be entitled to receive fewer hours of funded early education.