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1666878

	registered interest
	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

1654836

	registered interest
	date	20/07/2023
	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 of the Exchequer, how much his Department (a) budgeted for and (b) spent on tax-free childcare in the financial year 2022-23.
	tabling member constituency	Houghton and Sunderland South
	tabling member printed	Bridget Phillipson
	uin	195419
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/09/2023 answer text <p>This statistic, and other statistics on Tax-Free Childcare spending, can be found online at: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/tax-free-childcare-quarterly-statistics</p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen question first answered 04/09/2023 11:55:36 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
	tabling member	4046 label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson

1651555

	registered interest
	date	10/07/2023
	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 of the Exchequer, how many claimants made claims under the Tax Free Childcare Scheme in each financial year since 2017; and how much funding was claimed under the scheme for children aged (a) under one year old, (b) one year old, (c) two years old and (d) three to four years old in each financial year since 2017.
	tabling member constituency	Walthamstow
	tabling member printed	Stella Creasy
	uin	193116
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/07/2023 answer text <p>Statistics relating to Tax-Free Childcare account use are published quarterly in “Tax-Free Childcare Statistics” on the gov.uk website. The latest publication, containing information up to March 2023 is here:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/tax-free-childcare-quarterly-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/tax-free-childcare-quarterly-statistics</a></p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen question first answered 13/07/2023 13:55:32 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
	tabling member	4088 label Biography information for Stella Creasy

1624301

	registered interest
	date	27/04/2023
	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 of the Exchequer, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of setting the level of tax-free childcare allowance at a local level and increasing that level for claimants in areas with higher childcare costs.
	tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
	tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
	uin	183155
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/05/2023 answer text <p>Tax-Free Childcare (TFC) 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>As Tax-Free Childcare is a UK-wide offer, the level of financial support it provides has been set at the same level to avoid arbitrary cut-offs between different regions.</p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen question first answered 09/05/2023 09:31:32 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
	tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

1612508

	registered interest
	date	19/04/2023
	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 of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of raising the upper limit of the tax-free childcare allowance in the context of rising nursery fees.
	tabling member constituency	Ealing Central and Acton
	tabling member printed	Dr Rupa Huq
	uin	181798
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/04/2023 answer text <p>Tax-Free Childcare (TFC) 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 Government recognises the importance of supporting parents with the costs of childcare and continues to support families with a range of other childcare offers. 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. Parents who are not eligible for 30 hours may still be able to access other offers: all three- and four-year-olds can access 15 hours of free childcare per week, regardless of circumstance; and two-year-olds who meet certain social and economic criteria can receive 15 free hours per week. This additional investment at Spring Budget will bring total Government support for childcare to over £10bn by 2027/28. In addition, parents working on Universal Credit claimants are able to claim up to 85 per cent of their childcare costs At Spring Budget, the government announced it would increase the Universal Credit childcare maximum amounts to £951 for 1 child and £1,630 for 2 children, as well as ensuring parents moving into work or increasing their hours have support with childcare costs upfront when they need it.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen question first answered 26/04/2023 07:59:12 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
	tabling member	4511 label Biography information for Dr Rupa Huq

1605949

	registered interest
	date	21/03/2023
	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 of the Exchequer, what the (a) forecast and (b) actual expenditure was for the tax-free childcare scheme in the last three financial years.
	tabling member constituency	North Down
	tabling member printed	Stephen Farry
	uin	170765
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/03/2023 answer text <p>Tax-Free Childcare began to be rolled out from April 2017.</p><p> </p><p>Forecasted expenditure for financial years 2019-20, 2020-21 and 2021-22 was published in the Office for Budget Responsibility’s Economic and Fiscal Outlook for Spring Statement 2019 and can be found on page 105: https://obr.uk/docs/dlm_uploads/March-2019_EFO_Web-Accessible.pdf</p><p> </p><p>Actual expenditure for financial years 2019-20, 2020-21 and 2021-22 was published in the Tax-Free Childcare Official Statistics, March 2022. The Tables and Statistics are available to download from: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/tax-free-childcare-statistics-march-2022</p><p> </p><p>Actual expenditure in 2020-21 was significantly lower than forecast. This is driven by the impact of COVID 19 lockdowns.</p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen question first answered 28/03/2023 14:15:18 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
	tabling member	4856 label Biography information for Stephen Farry

1605950

	registered interest
	date	21/03/2023
	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 of the Exchequer, if he will make an estimate of the cost to the public purse of increasing the tax free childcare scheme to cover (a) 25 per cent and (b) 30 per cent of childcare costs.
	tabling member constituency	North Down
	tabling member printed	Stephen Farry
	uin	170766
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/03/2023 answer text Up-to-date estimates are not readily available and could only be provided at disproportionate cost. Should the Government announce any changes to Tax-Free Childcare or other policy measures in future, costings will be submitted to the Office for Budget Responsibility and published in the budget report on GOV.UK. answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen question first answered 28/03/2023 14:17:15 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
	tabling member	4856 label Biography information for Stephen Farry

1601366

	registered interest
	date	06/03/2023
	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 of the Exchequer, whether his Department plans to review the upper limit on tax-free childcare in the context of trends in the level of childcare costs.
	tabling member constituency	Glasgow South West
	tabling member printed	Chris Stephens
	uin	158998
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2023 answer text <p>Tax-Free Childcare (TFC) 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’re 17. Take-up of Tax-Free Childcare has continued to increase and is on a steady upward trajectory: an estimated 428,000 families used Tax-Free Childcare for 511,000 children in November 2022, this quarter’s peak, compared to 401,000 families using Tax-Free Childcare for 478,000 children in September 2022.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Additional childcare support is available: all three- and four-year-olds can access 15 hours of free childcare per week, regardless of circumstance. Eligible working parents of three- and four-year-olds can also access an additional 15 hours of free childcare per week, also known as 30 hours free childcare. Moreover, Universal Credit (UC) claimants are able to claim up to 85% of their childcare costs.</p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen question first answered 09/03/2023 08:13:08 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
	tabling member	4463 label Biography information for Chris Stephens

1584932

	registered interest
	date	07/02/2023
	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 of the Exchequer, how many families were eligible for tax-free childcare in each UK (a) nation and (b) region in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne North
	tabling member printed	Catherine McKinnell
	uin	141434
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/02/2023 answer text <p>Families eligible for Tax-Free Childcare (TFC) are defined as those who meet the eligibility criteria and use qualifying childcare. HMRC does not hold this information for all families who could be eligible for TFC.</p><p> </p><p>An estimate of the number of families eligible for TFC is derived from the Family Resources Survey. This is 1.3 million families across the UK over the past 5 years.</p><p> </p><p>Since this is based on survey data, regional estimates are much less reliable and are not routinely produced but the table below was included in the Tax-Free Childcare Post Implementation Review and relates to March 2020 (see figure 4 on page 15):</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2014/28/pdfs/ukpgaod_20140028_en_001.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2014/28/pdfs/ukpgaod_20140028_en_001.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p>The number of families that are eligible for TFC in each region is an estimate, based on information from the Family Resources Survey:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/family-resources-survey-financial-year-201718" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/family-resources-survey-financial-year-201718</a></p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen question first answered 14/02/2023 09:11:32 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
	tabling member	4125 label Biography information for Catherine McKinnell

1582902

	registered interest
	date	01/02/2023
	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 of the Exchequer, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of increasing the £500 cap on payments received every three months under the Tax-Free Childcare scheme in the context of increased childcare costs.
	tabling member constituency	Bristol North West
	tabling member printed	Darren Jones
	uin	137910
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2023 answer text <p>Tax-Free Childcare (TFC) 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’re 17. Take-up of Tax-Free Childcare has continued to increase and is on a steady upward trajectory: at the end of September 2022 (the most recent data) an estimated 401,000 families used Tax-Free Childcare for 478,000 children, compared to 391,000 families for 468,000 children in June 2022. The Government spent £44 million on TFC top-up for families in September 2022.</p><p> </p><p>Additional childcare support is available: all three- and four-year-olds can access 15 hours of free childcare per week, regardless of circumstance. Eligible working parents of three- and four-year-olds can also access an additional 15 hours of free childcare per week, also known as 30 hours free childcare. Moreover, Universal Credit (UC) claimants are able to claim up to 85% of their childcare costs.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen question first answered 08/02/2023 14:06:05 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
	tabling member	4621 label Biography information for Darren Jones