§ Mr. WebbTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if, under the rules for the family credit childcare disregard, a mother who worked for at least 16 hours a week as a registered childminder, and who entered into a contractual relationship with her husband, and who cared on a professional basis for her own children at192W premises other than the parental home, will be able to disregard the costs to the family of childcare for the purposes of family credit assessment. [70079]
§ Angela EagleFor the purposes of the Family Credit disregard, Family Credit General Regulation 13A(2) provides a definition of eligible childcare. Childcare charges paid by a Family Credit claimant to a partner or by a partner to a Family Credit claimant in respect of any child for whom either or any of them is responsible, are not defined as eligible childcare.