Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 24 April 2018 to Question 137634 on Children: Day Care, what funding his Department had allocated for (a) Call Centre Costs and (b) IT Support Costs in advance of financial year 2017-18.
Parents apply for Tax-Free Childcare and 30 hours free childcare through a single online application - the childcare service. The forecast costs for running the childcare service for 2017-18 were £28.7million for the call centre and operational support and £16.1million for IT support.