Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment he has made of level of public awareness of the 30 hours free childcare programme in each income decile in England.

This government is committed to helping working families with accessible, affordable childcare and offers a broad range of childcare support.

The department measures awareness via the annual Childcare and Early Years Survey of Parents, the most recent data published as Official Statistics in December 2018: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/childcare-and-early-years-survey-of-parents-2018.

This data will be collected in 2019 via the same survey and published as Official Statistics in December 2019.

Table 3.1, attached, summarises awareness of the 30 hours policy among families with children aged 0-4 years in England, broken down by various family characteristics such as family income.