Speeches

Lucy Powell – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the HM Treasury

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lucy Powell on 2014-03-18.

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the number of families who will benefit from (a) £2,000, (b) £1,800, (c) £1,600, (d) £1,400, (e) £1,200, (f) £1,000, (g) £800, (h) £600, (i) £400 and (j) £200 per year of tax-free childcare support.

Nicky Morgan

Information on the number of families eligible for Tax-Free Childcare and the number of families who will benefit from the increase of the £6,000 cap on costs per child to £10,000 can be found in Annex B of Delivering Tax-Free Childcare: the Government’s response to the consultation on design and operation:

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/293084/PU1607_Tax_free_Childcare_response.pdf

Further breakdowns of the number of families benefitting from the levels of support requested are not available.