To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the (a) forecast and (b) actual expenditure was for the tax-free childcare scheme in the last five financial years to date.
Answered on
19 November 2021
Tax-Free Childcare began to be rolled out from April 2017.
Forecasted expenditure from the Autumn Budget 2017 and actual expenditure from the latest Official Statistics publication (November 2021) is shown in the table below for years 2017-18 to 2020-21.
2017-18 | 2018-19 | 2019-20 | 2020-21 | |
Autumn Budget 2017 Forecasted Expenditure | £0.04bn | £0.30bn | £0.57bn | £0.71bn |
Actual Expenditure | £0.03bn | £0.12bn | £0.24bn | £0.24bn |
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