The treasury select committee, which Morgan chairs, has launched the inquiry to examine whether recent childcare schemes are helping parents in the labour market and benefiting the economy.
The inquiry's remit includes examining the effectiveness of the government's 30 hours free childcare entitlement for working families, which was introduced in September 2017.
This includes looking at whether the government has provided sufficient funding for the 30 hours scheme.
The inquiry will also scrutinise the tax-free childcare scheme, through which the government covers 20 per cent of working parents' childcare costs. While this is already available to families of children under four, an extension to families with under-12s and disabled children under 17 years old has been postponed, from the end of 2017 to March this year.
The delivery of childcare schemes will also come under scrutiny, with the committee particularly keen to look at the impact of technical problems with the HMRC-run childcare service website, where families can register for tax-free childcare.
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