§ Ms KellyTo ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what would be the additional cost to the Exchequer of replacing the child care tax credit with a non-means-tested 329W parenting allowance of £70 a week for one child, £105 a week for two or more children, available to all families with a child under the age of three years, regardless of the parents' employment status or the form of child care used and assuming that the child care tax credit still applied to families with children where the youngest child was over the age of three years and the parenting allowance did not apply to Statutory Maternity Pay recipients. [116642]
§ Dawn Primarolo[holding answer 28 March 2000]: If a weekly, non-means-tested allowances of £70 were to be given to all families with a single child under the age of three years and of £105 to families with two or more children, at least one of whom is under the age of three years, then the current full-year cost, based on data from the Family Resources Survey, would be about £8.5 billion.