Question follow-through · 61698
Universal Credit: Childcare
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she plans to replace the provision of upfront childcare costs with Universal Credit with advance payments.
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 20 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 24 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 26 Jun 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
20 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she plans to replace the provision of upfront childcare costs with Universal Credit with advance payments.
24 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
26 Jun 2025
Answer published
There are currently no plans to change the way upfront childcare costs are paid. Claimants of the Universal Credit childcare element can claim upfront childcare costs through the Flexible Support Fund, to help ease them into the Universal Credit childcare...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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