Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will publish all recent correspondence between his Department and the companies contracted to deliver the website services responsible for the generation of eligibility codes for childcare policies, tax-free childcare and 30 hours of funded childcare on improvements requested to that website.

HMRC are delivering the childcare service in partnership with National Savings & Investments (NS&I). Atos are a contractor to NS&I. It is not the Government’s usual practice to comment on financial arrangements, or release correspondence, between departments and their contactors since they may be commercially sensitive.

Data on how many parents have stopped using childcare vouchers in order to use Tax-Free childcare is not available.