Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to question (28309) a) how many people claimed Tax-Free Childcare in each tax year since the scheme was introduced and b) what information is held about their incomes.

The number of families who have a Tax-Free Childcare account that has been used to make a payment to a childcare provider each year is available in the publication linked below (Table 1):

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/tax-free-childcare-quarterly-statistics

Income information from HMRC systems is used to assess whether an applicant meets the eligibility criteria at the point of application and subsequent reconfirmations. HMRC does not store income figures from these checks.