Children: Day Care
(asked on 2nd September 2019) - View Source
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what forecast he has made of the number of parents that will be eligible for tax free childcare in each of the next five years.
Answered by
Rishi Sunak
Prime Minister, First Lord of the Treasury, Minister for the Civil Service, and Minister for the Union
This question was answered on 9th September 2019
We estimate that there are 1.3 million families with qualifying childcare that are eligible for Tax-free Childcare in the UK in 2019/20. This estimate has been revised from the 1.5 provided previously following updates to the survey data and methodological improvements.
Current forecasts for the next five years can be seen in the table below.
| 2019/20 | 2020/21 | 2021/22 | 2022/23 | 2023/24 |
Number of Eligible Families with Qualifying Childcare (Millions) | 1.3 | 1.3 | 1.3 | 1.2 | 1.2 |