Day Care: Tax Allowances

(asked on 31st January 2017) - View Source

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate his Department has made of the cost to the public purse of tax-free childcare in each year of this Parliament.


Answered by
David Gauke Portrait
David Gauke
This question was answered on 3rd February 2017

The estimated cost of Tax-Free Childcare in each year of this parliament is shown in the table below.

2016-17

2017-18

2018-19

2019-20

2020-21

2021-22

Cost (£bn)

0.0

0.6

0.8

0.9

0.9

1.0

These estimates are published in the Office for Budget Responsibility’s Economic and Fiscal Outlook - November 2016.

http://budgetresponsibility.org.uk/efo/economic-and-fiscal-outlook-november-2016/

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