Labour has pledged to increase the number of funded hours for working parents of three- and four-year-olds, should the party win the next general election.
The figures are based on ONS labour force survey data analysed by the House of Commons library.
Labour asked the library to analyse data compiled by the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) published in its ChildMind the Gap report.
Earlier this year a survey by the IPPR claimed that the UK’s maternal employment rate was ten percentage points behind OECD countries, such as Denmark, Sweden and the Netherlands.
It said that international evidence showed that affordable childcare could increase the maternal employment rate by between five and ten percentage points.
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