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Department: Department for Education

Oral Answers to Questions

Daniel Zeichner Excerpts
Monday 19th December 2016

(7 years, 6 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Caroline Dinenage Portrait Caroline Dinenage
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I thank my hon. Friend for that very kind invitation. I would be more than happy to visit both him and the Hadfield Nursery School in his beautiful High Peak constituency. He is right to highlight the importance of maintained nursery schools. We have committed to providing local authorities with an additional £55 million per year for nursery schools until at least the end of this Parliament.

Daniel Zeichner Portrait Daniel Zeichner (Cambridge) (Lab)
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On the same subject, is it not really the case that the 30 hour promise is being funded by stealing resources from state-run nurseries that employ fully qualified headteachers and staff? Will the Secretary of State tell us what analysis she has undertaken of the damage that will be done by the cuts she is making to the funding of state-run nursery schools?