Written Question·Department for Education·UIN 36607

Tabled: 20 October 2026

Question

Ian Sollom

Liberal Democrat — St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her department has made of the potential merits of expanding free childcare for working parents to (a) full-time PhD students and (b) full-time postgraduate students, regardless of subject.