Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the number of parents who will sign up for Tax-Free Childcare in 2017-18.

As of 22 June 2017, the Tax-Free Childcare helpline has answered over 80,000 phone calls from parents and over 40,000 calls from childcare providers. The average call response time is 4 seconds.

As of 22 June 2017 almost 50,000 parents had successfully applied for Tax-Free Childcare and over 40,000 childcare providers had signed up.

At Budget 2017, the Office for Budget Responsibility forecast that there would be 790,000 families using TFC by the end of 2017/18.