Universal Credit: Childcare
(asked on 20th July 2023) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many (a) families were eligible for and (b) eligible families took up up the childcare support component of universal credit in each of the last five years.
This question was answered on 7th September 2023
Figures prior to 2019 are not readily available as Universal Credit operated under two separate administrative systems until UC Full Service roll out was completed in December 2018.
We have therefore provided data for the past four financial years 2019-2020 to 2022-2023 in the attached spreadsheet, subject to the caveats set out in the attached.