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828954

registered interest
date	23/01/2018
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Children: Day Care
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the average amount of compensation paid to people who have experienced difficulties with the Childcare Choices website has been; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Batley and Spen
tabling member printed	Tracy Brabin
uin	124558
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2018 answer text The vast majority of parents have been able to apply for and use Tax-Free Childcare without difficulty. Where parents have missed out on Tax-Free Childcare payments HMRC will pay compensation to reimburse them. As at 11 January 2018, the average payment made to a parent who had received a payment in lieu of missed Tax-Free Childcare payments was £274. HMRC also makes redress payments to recompense parents for inconvenience and expenses such as telephone calls to the helpline. At 11 January 2018 the average redress payment to a parent who received such a payment was £64. answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 29/01/2018 14:37:07 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	4588 label Biography information for Tracy Brabin

825692

registered interest
date	19/01/2018
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
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 the Answer of 18 January 2018 to Question 122814, whether it is possible to access 30 hours of childcare without a live childcare account.
tabling member constituency	Batley and Spen
tabling member printed	Tracy Brabin
uin	123760
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/01/2018 answer text <p>When a parent completes an application for 30 hours free childcare, an online childcare account is created automatically. The majority of parents currently accessing 30 hours free childcare will have a live childcare account.</p><p> </p><p>Where a parent becomes ineligible, or chooses not to reconfirm their details, their childcare account will no longer be live, but they can still access 30 hours free childcare for a short period known as a “grace period”.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, some parents who have experienced technical difficulties were issued a 30 hours code manually. These parents may not have a live childcare account.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 24/01/2018 12:48:10 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	4588 label Biography information for Tracy Brabin

823131

registered interest
date	15/01/2018
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
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 the Written Ministerial Statement of 15 January 2018, HCWS401, on Tax-Free Childcare, for what reason the number of users of 30-hours of childcare does not match the number released by the Department for Education in its Management information on the number of 30 hours free childcare codes issued and validated for the spring term 2018.
tabling member constituency	Batley and Spen
tabling member printed	Tracy Brabin
uin	122814
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2018 answer text <p>The Written Ministerial Statement of 15 January 2018 (HCWS401) gave the number of parents who had a live childcare account for 30 hours free childcare. The Department for Education’s Management Information release gives the number of children for whom a 30 hours free childcare code had been validated for the spring term. The full methodology for calculating DfE’s spring codes is set out in their statistical release, which can be found at https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/673119/30-hours_childcare_management_information_stats-_Jan_2018.pdf</p><p> </p><p>Whilst the majority of parents use the childcare service with no problem, some parents have experienced issues and HMRC have apologised to those parents.</p><p>Many of the issues experienced by parents are intermittent and may affect customers in different ways.</p><p>Currently, on a typical day, fewer than 2% of parents see an error screen at some point.</p><p>Some parents receive a delayed eligibility response. At present this is less than 1% of current applicants.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss grouped question UIN 122816 question first answered 18/01/2018 13:31:49 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	4588 label Biography information for Tracy Brabin

823133

registered interest
date	15/01/2018
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Children: Day Care
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what proportion of users have experienced technical glitches when using the Childcare Choices website since its creation.
tabling member constituency	Batley and Spen
tabling member printed	Tracy Brabin
uin	122816
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2018 answer text <p>The Written Ministerial Statement of 15 January 2018 (HCWS401) gave the number of parents who had a live childcare account for 30 hours free childcare. The Department for Education’s Management Information release gives the number of children for whom a 30 hours free childcare code had been validated for the spring term. The full methodology for calculating DfE’s spring codes is set out in their statistical release, which can be found at https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/673119/30-hours_childcare_management_information_stats-_Jan_2018.pdf</p><p> </p><p>Whilst the majority of parents use the childcare service with no problem, some parents have experienced issues and HMRC have apologised to those parents.</p><p>Many of the issues experienced by parents are intermittent and may affect customers in different ways.</p><p>Currently, on a typical day, fewer than 2% of parents see an error screen at some point.</p><p>Some parents receive a delayed eligibility response. At present this is less than 1% of current applicants.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss grouped question UIN 122814 question first answered 18/01/2018 13:31:49 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	4588 label Biography information for Tracy Brabin

820882

registered interest
date	11/01/2018
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Childcare Vouchers
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 effect of the closure of the childcare vouchers scheme on families with a low household income's ability to afford childcare and early education.
tabling member constituency	Batley and Spen
tabling member printed	Tracy Brabin
uin	122300
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2018 answer text <p>I refer the hon member to the answer I gave on 18 December 2017 to the Right Hon Member for Sevenoaks (PQ118344).</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 16/01/2018 12:03:23 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	4588 label Biography information for Tracy Brabin

810336

registered interest
date	20/12/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Children: Day Care
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, for what reasons tax-free childcare is not available for fostered children.
tabling member constituency	Batley and Spen
tabling member printed	Tracy Brabin
uin	120802
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2018 answer text <p>On the 13th December 2017 HM Revenue and Customs issued 18,000 text message reminders to those parents who needed to confirm their details before January to continue receiving 30 hours free childcare.</p><p> </p><p>Foster carers already receive funding for the care of their foster child from local authorities.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss grouped question UIN 120803 question first answered 08/01/2018 15:33:15 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	4588 label Biography information for Tracy Brabin

810337

registered interest
date	20/12/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
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 text messages his Department has sent to parents to remind them to re-enrol for the 30 hours of funded childcare scheme.
tabling member constituency	Batley and Spen
tabling member printed	Tracy Brabin
uin	120803
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2018 answer text <p>On the 13th December 2017 HM Revenue and Customs issued 18,000 text message reminders to those parents who needed to confirm their details before January to continue receiving 30 hours free childcare.</p><p> </p><p>Foster carers already receive funding for the care of their foster child from local authorities.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss grouped question UIN 120802 question first answered 08/01/2018 15:33:15 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	4588 label Biography information for Tracy Brabin

805429

registered interest
date	12/12/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Children: Day Care
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what plans he has to publish the number of (a) disabled and (b) non-disabled children who have a tax-free childcare account which has been used, set out by age.
tabling member constituency	Batley and Spen
tabling member printed	Tracy Brabin
uin	119100
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2017 answer text <p>Over 50,000 childcare providers (around 50% of all regulated providers) have successfully signed-up to receive payments through the Tax-Free Childcare scheme.</p><p> </p><p>We will publish more information about Tax-Free Childcare, when it is fully rolled-out in Spring 2018.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss grouped question UIN 119106 question first answered 18/12/2017 15:08:15 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	4588 label Biography information for Tracy Brabin

805435

registered interest
date	12/12/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Children: Day Care
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many childcare settings are receiving payments from tax-free childcare accounts.
tabling member constituency	Batley and Spen
tabling member printed	Tracy Brabin
uin	119106
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2017 answer text <p>Over 50,000 childcare providers (around 50% of all regulated providers) have successfully signed-up to receive payments through the Tax-Free Childcare scheme.</p><p> </p><p>We will publish more information about Tax-Free Childcare, when it is fully rolled-out in Spring 2018.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss grouped question UIN 119100 question first answered 18/12/2017 15:08:15 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	4588 label Biography information for Tracy Brabin

802356

registered interest
date	06/12/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
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 the Answer of 4 December 2017 to Question 116593, what proportion of self-employed people or who have a partner who is self-employed and have successfully applied for tax-free childcare have used that account to date.
tabling member constituency	Batley and Spen
tabling member printed	Tracy Brabin
uin	118043
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2017 answer text <p>Extensive analysis would be required to determine the proportion of self-employed parents who have made a payment from their Tax-Free Childcare account. The information requested is not readily available and can be provided only at disproportionate cost.</p><p>Tax-Free Childcare offers many self-employed parents Government help with childcare costs for the first time, as they are not eligible for employer supported childcare vouchers.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 11/12/2017 16:45:47 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	4588 label Biography information for Tracy Brabin