Question follow-through · 28019
Childcare: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children were ineligible for government-funded childcare in 2023/4, 2024/5 and 2025/6 as a result of the £100,000 earnings limit; and what her Department's estimate is of the value of funded childcare
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 8 Sept 2026
- Target answer date
- 14 Sept 2026
- Answer
- 14 Sept 2026 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
8 Sept 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children were ineligible for government-funded childcare in 2023/4, 2024/5 and 2025/6 as a result of the £100,000 earnings limit; and what her Department's estimate is of the value of funded childcare
14 Sept 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
14 Sept 2026
Answer published
The £100,000 adjusted net income per year threshold applies to the working-parent entitlement and Tax-Free Childcare, rather than to all forms of government childcare support. Children aged three-and-four years old who were ineligible for the working pare...
Official data retrieved 1 Oct 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Education: Standards
15 Sept 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the Attainment 8 score was at each decile of attainment for each Major and Minor ethnic group in 2023/24.
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15 Sept 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what i) number and b) proportion of each Major and Minor ethnic group were in each decile of national attainment as measured by attainment 8 for that group in 2023/24.