Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 25 March 2019 to Question 233582 on Children: Day Care, how much funding his Department plans to allocate to (a) tax free childcare, (b) employer supported childcare and (c) the childcare element of Working Tax Credit in 2019-20.

Page 100 of the OBR’s March 2019 Economic & Fiscal Outlook contains the Tax-Free Childcare forecast, including forecast spending for 2019/20 (https://cdn.obr.uk/March-2019_EFO_Web-Accessible.pdf).

The forecast cost of Employer Supported Childcare tax reliefs in 2019/20 is £539m.

The forecast cost of the childcare element of Working Tax Credit in 2019/20 is £1,022m. This is in line with OBR methodology which assumes Universal Credit has no impact on the Working Tax Credit forecast.