Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many of the 275,000 parents who have an open childcare account are eligible for tax-free childcare.
I refer the honourable member to my response to my response to a Parliamentary Question (106916) on 16 October, which gives the number of live Tax-Free Childcare accounts.
The table below shows the estimated number of families with a youngest child aged under 7, 8, 9, and 10-11 who will be eligible for Tax-Free Childcare in 2018/19. However, not all of these families will use formal childcare or will be better off on Tax-Free Childcare and take-up is therefore expected to be lower.
Age of youngest child | Families eligible for TFC |
Under 7 | 1,580,000 |
7 | 160,000 |
8 | 170,000 |
9 | 140,000 |
10-11 | 200,000 |
On 15 November the government announced that Tax-Free childcare will be fully rolled out to all eligible parents by the end of March 2018.
Eligibility projections for Tax-Free Childcare cannot be broken down by Local Authority.