Question follow-through · 7867
Childcare: Fees and Charges
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of childcare costs on the UK birth rate.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 8 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 10 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 15 Jun 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
8 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of childcare costs on the UK birth rate.
10 Jun 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
15 Jun 2026
Answer published
Coram-PACEY’s 2026 Childcare Survey shows the expansion of government funded entitlements in 2024/25 brought the cost of a part-time childcare place for eligible working parents back to what it was in 2005. They additionally found that the expansion of 30...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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