Question follow-through · 22810

Childcare: Fees and Charges

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will take steps to ensure that childcare providers are not able to charge for childcare costs on days where they are unable to deliver the service.

answeredDepartment for Education

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Answering body
Department for Education
Tabled
8 Jan 2025
Target answer date
14 Jan 2025
Answer
23 Jan 2025 · 15 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 8 Jan 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will take steps to ensure that childcare providers are not able to charge for childcare costs on days where they are unable to deliver the service.

  2. 14 Jan 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 23 Jan 2025

    Answer published

    It is the department’s ambition that all families have access to high quality, affordable and flexible early education and care, improving the life chances for every child and the work choices for every parent.Eligible children are entitled to 570 or 1140...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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