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886235

	registered interest
	date	18/04/2018
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Children: Day Care
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many complaints relating to childcare service accounts have been reported to HMRC in each of the last six months.
	tabling member constituency	York Outer
	tabling member printed	Julian Sturdy
	uin	136430
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2018 answer text <p>The total number of complaints relating to the childcare service received by HMRC each month are set out in the table below.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>October 17</p></td><td><p>464</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>November 17</p></td><td><p>716</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>December 17</p></td><td><p>554</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>January 18</p></td><td><p>900</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>February 18</p></td><td><p>758</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>March 18</p></td><td><p>551</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 24/04/2018 13:01:08 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
	tabling member	4079 label Biography information for Julian Sturdy

885433

	registered interest
	date	17/04/2018
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Children: Day Care
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to his Answer of 16 April 2018 to Question 134639, on Children: Day Care, what the technical issues were that were experienced by parents when applying for tax-free childcare through the online service; and what caused those issues.
	tabling member constituency	Halton
	tabling member printed	Derek Twigg
	uin	136296
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2018 answer text <p>The majority of parents apply for Tax-Free Childcare without any issues. For the small number of parents that have a technical problem applying for Tax-Free Childcare the majority of these are caused by:</p><p> </p><ul><li><p>delayed eligibility responses, caused by the application effectively becoming stuck at some point in the IT system;</p></li><li><p>issues with children incorrectly duplicating on the system which is caused by the interaction between HMRC and NS&amp;I IT systems; and</p></li><li><p>parents seeing error screens during their application which have a number of root causes.</p><p> </p><p>Following work by HMRC to improve the childcare service and fix these problems, over 99% of parents now receive an eligibility response within 5 working days, only a small number of parents are experiencing a duplicate child issue and the number of parents seeing an error screen at some point through their application, has reduced to less than 2%.</p><p> </p></li></ul> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 24/04/2018 12:49:49 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
	tabling member	429 label Biography information for Derek Twigg

885217

	registered interest
	date	17/04/2018
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Ordnance Survey: Databases
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment his Department has made of the potential economic effect on booksellers of his recent proposal on Ordinance Survey MasterMap data.
	tabling member constituency	Bristol West
	tabling member printed	Thangam Debbonaire
	uin	136082
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2018 answer text <p>At Autumn Budget 2017, the government committed to work with Ordnance Survey (OS) and the new Geospatial Commission to establish by May 2018 how to open up freely OS’s MasterMap data to UK-based small businesses in particular. This work is underway and we will provide further updates in due course.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 24/04/2018 12:47:47 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
	tabling member	4433 label Biography information for Thangam Debbonaire

887222

	registered interest
	date	19/04/2018
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Children: Day Care
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many tax-free childcare accounts have (a) been created and (b) had at least one payment made from that account to date.
	tabling member constituency	Batley and Spen
	tabling member printed	Tracy Brabin
	uin	136786
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2018 answer text <p>As of 19 April 2018, more than 275,000 parents had opened a Tax–Free Childcare account and over 60,000 parents had used their account to make a payment to a childcare provider.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 24/04/2018 12:46:46 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
	tabling member	4588 label Biography information for Tracy Brabin