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Maria Miller: ...put in place, but frankly by going a great deal further: free entitlement to 15 hours a week of early years care for four and five-year-olds and 40% of two-year-olds; new support under universal credit; and tax-free child care, which will mean that for the first time ever, people who are self-employed can get access to important child care help and support when running their own...
Catherine McKinnell: ...parents. Fundamentally, we remain concerned that the Bill will simply not address the situation in which too many parents have been left. The evidence is now overwhelming. The cumulative changes to tax and benefits over the Government’s time in office have hit families hardest, as is clearly shown by new research published today. From our analysis of official statistics, we know that...
Priti Patel: ...care for every three and four-year-old, funding 15 hours a week of free child care for 40% of two-year-olds, and increasing the child care support for low income families to 85% under universal credit. Now, this scheme will significantly broaden access to child care support. Hundreds of thousands of families who are excluded from the current employer-supported child care scheme will be...
Priti Patel: ...are three times as likely to be in poverty if they live in a workless family. That is why we are taking decisive action to make work pay and reform the welfare system. We have touched on universal credit, the child care support we are providing and increasing the national minimum wage. This is a complex, multifaceted problem, and it would be wrong to suggest that there is a silver bullet....
Alex Cunningham: ...2014; c. 222.] promised by the Minister in Committee will prove elusive. On top of the sizeable potential for confusion, the different mechanisms by which child care costs are to be paid under the tax-free child care scheme and universal credit are also worrying. As we are aware, under the tax-free scheme, payments will be made through child care accounts. That will provide families who...
Alex Cunningham: ...to pay their provider, so the rich get paid up front, while the poor do not get any payment at all. One possible solution that could be explored further is the provision of child care accounts and tax-free child care to families in receipt of child care support through tax credits or universal credit. Allowing these claimants to use child care accounts to receive their payments of child...
Priti Patel: I will come on to the hon. Gentleman’s amendments and refer specifically to the points he makes. For low earners, the Government will continue to pay up to 70% of child care costs through working tax credit, and under universal credit this support will be extended to up to 85% of costs when both parents are working, as all hon. Members heard in Committee. In addition, as we have touched on,...
Priti Patel: ...at length in Committee, the Government’s overall child care system is very much focused on those on lower incomes, and it is wrong to suggest that that is not the case. Families in receipt of tax credits receive more generous support with child care costs. We have already discussed universal credit, which is being extended to cover up to 85% of the costs of child care. All the analysis...
Priti Patel: ...parties. We are designing a calculator tool, as we have discussed before. This is all about giving guidance and providing clarity. I shall briefly cover amendments 3 to 11 on families in receipt of tax credits. The child care element of tax credits is just one component of the package of support designed to help lower-income households. I emphasise that there is support for those on low...
Alex Cunningham: ...(Catherine McKinnell) has already talked about the complexity of the Government’s scheme. Amendments 12, 13 and 3 to 11 are all aimed at simplifying the relationship and interaction between the tax-free child care scheme and other sources of support, particularly tax credits and universal credit. Members might be aware that I tabled amendments 3 to 11 in Committee with the intention of...
Eleanor Laing: ...— “(a) amend this Act to allow childcare accounts to be held by persons other than those specified in subsection (1),”. Amendment 3, in clause 30, page 17, line 3, leave out “an award of tax credit is or has been made” and insert “an award of tax credit which includes the childcare element is or has been made”. Amendment 4, page 17, line 18, after “credit”, insert...
Alison McGovern: ...31 a week more to fund 25 hours of nursery for their two-year-old, three-year-old or four-year-old. That is a hefty sum in almost anyone’s money. When that is tied in with frozen wages, reduced tax credits, increased VAT and soaring housing costs, it all becomes a pretty desperate recipe—I hear testimony on that from my constituents week in, week out. We know that not only are there...