Question follow-through · 17308
Childcare: Fees and Charges
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to her speech to Ruskin College on 8 July 2026, what estimate her Department has made of the annual cost to the public purse of extending 30 hours free childcare eligibility to non-working parent
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 9 Jul 2026
- Target answer date
- 15 Jul 2026
- Answer
- 4 Aug 2026 · 26 calendar days after tabling
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- Pre-school Education: Expenditure · 10 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
9 Jul 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to her speech to Ruskin College on 8 July 2026, what estimate her Department has made of the annual cost to the public purse of extending 30 hours free childcare eligibility to non-working parent
15 Jul 2026
Target answer date
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4 Aug 2026
Answer published
As the last government set out when announcing the expansion of government funded childcare in 2023, this aimed to tackle the fact that ‘the employment rate and hours worked by parents, particularly mothers, drops after childbirth and persists until afte...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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Pre-school Education: Expenditure
10 Jul 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of spending on the Early Learning for 2 year olds scheme is for non-working families.