PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Children: Day Care (19 April 2018)

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate his Department has made of the number of parents not eligible to receive 30 hours free childcare because their income is from a University or other stipend.

Asked by:
Karin Smyth (Labour)

The information requested is not held centrally.

All 3- and 4-year-olds are able to access our universal offer of 15 hours of early education a week, and therefore parents who receive income from a university or other stipend would be able to access this, to support them with their childcare.

Since September 2017, working parents of 3- and 4- year-olds are now eligible for an additional 15 hours of free childcare. Our latest published data shows that 294,000 children benefitted from a 30 hours place in the spring term.

Answered by:
Nadhim Zahawi (Conservative)
27 April 2018