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date	24/10/2023
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Childcare: Tax Allowances
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor for the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of increasing the tax-free childcare allowance, in the the context of increases in the cost of living.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	204026
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2023 answer text <p>Tax-Free Childcare provides financial support for working parents with their childcare costs. For every £8 parents pay into their childcare account, the Government adds £2 up to a maximum of £2,000 in top up per year for each child up to age 11 and up to £4,000 per disabled child until they are 17.</p><p> </p><p>The £2,000 Tax-Free Childcare top up has been set at this level because the Government believes it strikes the right balance between helping parents with their childcare costs, and managing the public finances in a responsible way.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is committed to supporting parents with their childcare costs. At Spring Budget 2023, the Government announced that it will expand the free childcare hours offer, so that eligible working parents in England will be able to access 30 hours of free childcare per week for 38 weeks per year from when their child is 9 months old, to when they start school. Through this expansion, the government will be more than doubling its spend on free hours.</p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen question first answered 26/10/2023 10:19:54 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

1665477

registered interest
date	17/10/2023
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Public Sector: Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make it his policy to fund pay increases for public sector workers at the rate of inflation or greater in the Autumn Statement 2023.
tabling member constituency	Cynon Valley
tabling member printed	Beth Winter
uin	203134
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2023 answer text <p>Pay for most frontline workforces is set through an independent Pay Review Body (PRB) process. The PRBs consider a range of evidence when forming their recommendations, including the need to recruit, retain and motivate suitably able and qualified people; the financial circumstances of Government; the Government's policies for improving public services; and the Government's inflation target.</p><p> </p><p>The Government values the expert advice of the PRBs and accepted their headline recommendations in full for the 2023-24 pay round, leading to some of the highest public sector pay uplifts in three decades. We will be remitting the PRBs for the 2024-25 pay round in due course</p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen grouped question UIN 203136 question first answered 25/10/2023 07:41:09 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
tabling member	4809 label Biography information for Beth Winter

1665480

registered interest
date	17/10/2023
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Public Sector: Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make it his policy to increase public sector pay in 2024-25 by at least the September 2023 growth in average earnings.
tabling member constituency	Cynon Valley
tabling member printed	Beth Winter
uin	203136
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2023 answer text <p>Pay for most frontline workforces is set through an independent Pay Review Body (PRB) process. The PRBs consider a range of evidence when forming their recommendations, including the need to recruit, retain and motivate suitably able and qualified people; the financial circumstances of Government; the Government's policies for improving public services; and the Government's inflation target.</p><p> </p><p>The Government values the expert advice of the PRBs and accepted their headline recommendations in full for the 2023-24 pay round, leading to some of the highest public sector pay uplifts in three decades. We will be remitting the PRBs for the 2024-25 pay round in due course</p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen grouped question UIN 203134 question first answered 25/10/2023 07:41:09 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
tabling member	4809 label Biography information for Beth Winter