Gregg McClymont – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Work and Pensions
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Gregg McClymont on 2014-03-11.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent estimate he has made of the number of people of pensionable age providing unpaid childcare support.
Steve Webb
The information requested is not available. The Childcare and Early Years Survey of Parents estimates that grandparents provided informal childcare for 1.8m children in 1.4m families in 2012/13 with 4% of these families making some form of payment to the grandparent. We are unable to identify the ages of these grandparents; previous studies have shown that around half of grandparents are aged over 65.
Source for grandparent age distribution:
Source for Childcare and Early Years Survey of Parents:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/childcare-and-early-years-survey-of-parents-2012-to-2013
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