Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department plans to include provisions in the Childcare Bill for extra funding for children currently in receipt of disability living allowance for children or enhanced child tax credits as a consequence of a disability.

The government is absolutely committed to supporting families with disabled children.

We want every eligible parent that wants to take advantage of the new entitlement to be able to. That includes parents of children with disabilities, and therefore we will of course consider issues of funding and accessibility for those children.

The first part of this is our cross-government review of the cost of providing childcare, which will include a consideration of the costs for children with additional needs. A call for evidence to inform the review was launched on 15 June and will close on 10 August 2015.

The call for evidence is available here: www.gov.uk/government/consultations/cost-of-providing-childcare-review-call-for-evidence