Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the cost is to the public purse of tax free childcare per hour.

Tax-Free Childcare (TFC) provides support to parents of 20% of their childcare costs, up to a cap of £2000 per child per year.

The official statistics publication ‘Tax-Free Childcare Statistics’ (https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/tax-free-childcare-statistics-june-2019) contains a monthly breakdown of Government costs.

The Government does not collect data on the number of hours of childcare being subsidised by TFC. It is therefore not possible to calculate the cost to the Government of TFC per hour of childcare subsidised.