Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the tax-free childcare scheme, how many user accounts have been closed as a result of inactivity in each of the last five years; and what proportion of those accounts concerned families where the children being claimed for were over the age of 11.

No Tax Free Childcare accounts have been closed due to inactivity over the past 5 years.

Accounts are only closed when a customer requests it or where remediation has occurred, for example to remove duplicate accounts.