PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Children: Day Care (25 September 2019)

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the number of (a) children and (b) families benefiting from tax-free childcare in each year since its inception in (a) East Hampshire constituency, (b) Hampshire local authority area and (c) England.

Asked by:
Damian Hinds (Conservative)

HMRC publish quarterly Official Statistics which includes a breakdown of families using Tax-Free Childcare by country and Government Office Region. The latest statistics were published in August 2019:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/tax-free-childcare-statistics-june-2019

Using methodology consistent with the published statistics HMRC can calculate account usage at the local authority and parliamentary constituency level. Results for England, Hampshire Local Authority and East Hampshire Parliamentary Constituency are shown in the table below:

Rounded to nearest 100.	Users of Tax-Free Childcare
	2017-18		2018-19
	Families	Children	Families	Children
England	52,300	64,600	144,400	181,200
Hampshire Local Authority*	1,600	2,100	4,400	5,700
East Hampshire Parliamentary Constituency	100	100	300	400

*Hampshire Local Authority figures are compiled from the following lower tier/district authorities:

Basingstoke and Deane

East Hampshire

Eastleigh

Fareham

Gosport

Hart

Havant

New Forest

Rushmoor

Test Valley

Winchester

Answered by:
Jesse Norman (Conservative)
4 October 2019