Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what progress has been made on rolling out 30 hours of free childcare in Hertsmere.

On 1 September, 30 hours free childcare was rolled out nationally. As of 31 August, 216,384 eligibility codes had been issued for the autumn term and, as of 6 November, 93% of these eligibility codes had been validated via the Eligibility Checking System. This information is referred to in the following management information release: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/30-hours-free-childcare-eligibility-codes-issued-and-validated.

On 19 December, the department will publish a statistical release ’30 hours free childcare: Autumn term 2017’ which will include a council breakdown of codes issued and validated.