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date	12/03/2018
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, whether parents of disabled children are entitled to an increase of 40 per cent in the proportional rate of the top-up for tax-free childcare contributions.
tabling member constituency	Bristol North West
tabling member printed	Darren Jones
uin	131898
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2018 answer text <p>Tax-Free Childcare offers more generous support for parents of disabled children, who can get up to £4,000 a child each year and who remain eligible for Tax-Free Childcare until the child is 17 years old. This is to reflect the additional costs associated with childcare provision for disabled children.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 20/03/2018 15:39:54 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	4621 label Biography information for Darren Jones

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registered interest
date	18/12/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Day Care
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to support providers of childcare who find themselves in financial difficulties.
tabling member constituency	Bristol North West
tabling member printed	Darren Jones
uin	119977
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/12/2017 answer text <p>The department is making a record investment in childcare, by 2020 spending around £6 billion per year, investing £1 billion a year to deliver 30 hours of free childcare and increasing our hourly funding rates.</p><p> </p><p>The department has awarded grants to the National Day Nurseries Association and the Professional Association of Childcare and Early Years to develop new business sustainability resources for childcare providers, which are available online at <a href="https://www.earlyyearsbusinesszone.org.uk/" target="_blank">https://www.earlyyearsbusinesszone.org.uk/</a> and <a href="https://www.pacey.org.uk/business/" target="_blank">https://www.pacey.org.uk/business/</a> and has made a further package of support materials available, which can be found here <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/early-years-business-sustainability" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/early-years-business-sustainability</a>.</p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 22/12/2017 14:28:38 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
tabling member	4621 label Biography information for Darren Jones

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registered interest
date	06/10/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Day Care
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether the Government has made an estimate of the number of work hours for which people cannot work on account of free childcare not being available for a full week of 37.5 hours and during school holidays.
tabling member constituency	Bristol North West
tabling member printed	Darren Jones
uin	105734
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2017 answer text <p>We are increasing support to working parents by doubling the free childcare entitlement from 15 to 30 hours per week from September 2017. The introduction of 30 hours’ free childcare aims to make childcare more affordable and to enable parents to work, or to work more if they choose to do so.</p><p> </p><p>The department knows that parents’ working patterns vary significantly and we are working closely with local authorities and providers to ensure that the 30 hours’ free childcare entitlement delivers high quality and flexible childcare that meets parents’ needs.</p><p> </p><p>Our statutory guidance makes clear that parents can stretch their entitlement over more than 38 weeks of the year, enabling them to take it up during the term time and the school holidays.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 13/10/2017 18:03:28 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
tabling member	4621 label Biography information for Darren Jones