Children: Day Care

(asked on 18th February 2022) - View Source

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate his Department has made of the number and proportion of applications for thirty hours of free childcare for 3 and 4 year olds that were found to have been wrongly denied in 2020 - 2021.


Answered by
Simon Clarke Portrait
Simon Clarke
This question was answered on 23rd February 2022

In 2021 HMRC overturned 750 decisions that parents were not eligible for 30 hours free childcare for 3 and 4-year-old children of working parents on review or appeal, out of 815,000 customer journeys. This represents 0.1% of all eligibility decisions being overturned.

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