Children: Day Care

(asked on 4th June 2019) - View Source

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many parents have opened and subsequently closed a tax-free childcare account since 21 April 2017.


Answered by
Elizabeth Truss Portrait
Elizabeth Truss
This question was answered on 10th June 2019

Details of the number of families with a Tax-Free Childcare account are published quarterly by HMRC. The latest publication is available at the following address:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/tax-free-childcare-statistics-march-2019

In March 2019 there were 313,000 families with an open Tax-Free Childcare account.

In March 2019 there were 125,000 families with a used Tax-Free Childcare account.

Table 3 shows the numbers of open and used accounts for families with a self-employed parent. The proportion of families with a used account that have a self-employed parent in March 2019, was 19,000/125,000 or 15%.

In March 2019, there were 900 disabled children in receipt of Tax-Free Childcare.

The information published in these statistics comprises all months since the policy was launched in April 2017 to March 2019. A further update, including the months April to June 2019, will be published in August.

Since Tax-Free Childcare was launched in April 2017 and up to May 2019, 8,500 accounts have been closed.

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