Childcare: Finance
Commons · Question 28019 · Tabled 8 Sep 2026 · Department for Education · Official record
Answered 14 Sep 2026
Question
Asked by Neil O'Brien
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
Answer
Answered by Paul Waugh, 14 Sep 2026
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...