Free Childcare Entitlement

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 12:48 pm on 6 September 2017.

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Photo of Danielle Rowley Danielle Rowley Labour, Midlothian 12:48, 6 September 2017

I have a constituent who is struggling to pay for childcare because of the way universal credit works. She is a working single mother and is expected to pay for her childcare up front—it is over £800 in her case—and then to claim it back, which does not make much sense to me. The cost is more than she earns from her job, and she may need to give up working. How does this system help people such as my constituent get back into work?