To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what proportion of eligible parents take up tax free childcare.
Answered by
Rishi Sunak Prime Minister, First Lord of the Treasury, Minister for the Civil Service, and Minister for the Union
This question was answered on 9th September 2019
The latest Tax-Free Childcare Official Statistics show that 141,000 families used a Tax-Free Childcare account to pay a childcare provider in June 2019. This is around 11% of the estimated number of eligible families.