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Childcare: Tax Allowances

Asked by Natalie FleetLabourDepartment for EducationTabled Answered 24 July 2025UIN 65627

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of parents with three and four-year-olds from (a) Bolsover, (b) Derbyshire and (c) England have used their entitlement to 15 hours of free childcare in each of the last three years.

Answered by Stephen Morgan

Figures on the number and estimated percentage of 3 and 4-year-olds who were registered for the universal entitlement in Derbyshire and England between January 2022 and 2024 can be accessed at: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink/14518f2b-6429-434f-1c45-08ddbd6c4867. Figures for Bolsover are not readily available.

Figures on the number of eligible children aged from 9 months registered for the working parent entitlement, at national and local authority level, are currently scheduled to be published on 17 July. Figures on the percentage of eligible children aged from 9 months registered for the working parent entitlement, at national level only, are also currently planned to be published in this statistics release. Due to data limitations around the reliability of the survey based data underpinning the calculations, sub-national estimates will not be available.

Figures on the number and estimated percentage of 2-year-olds registered for the disadvantaged entitlement in Derbyshire and England between January 2022 and 2024 can be viewed at: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink/5b816a38-7e84-48f9-492d-08ddbdf042eb. Figures for Bolsover are not available.

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