The party compared figures from the Family and Childcare Trust annual holiday childcare survey in 2010 and the 2017 survey, which has just been published.
In 2010, the average weekly cost of holiday childcare in England was £82.40. The average cost is now £124.23, a rise of 51 per cent.
The figures show that the North East of England is the worst affected region in the country, where the average weekly cost of holiday childcare has more than doubled, up from £63.05 in 2010 to £132.98 – a rise of 111 per cent.
In Greater London costs are up by 73 per cent, from £74 a week to £127.87 – an increase of 73 per cent.
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