article_snippet: The latest figures will be welcomed by Coalition ministers.
article_snippet: Ministers have claimed credit for raising state subsidies for childcare from £2billion to £3billion a year since 2010.
article_snippet: The ONS report said benefit changes that have pressed single parents into looking for work may have influenced the change.
article_snippet: The ONS report added: ‘Other government policies, for example to fund 570 hours of free early education childcare a year in England for all three to four-year-olds, will have provided additional incentives to engage with the labour market.