Childcare Ratios Debate

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Childcare Ratios

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Queen’s Speech
Thursday 9th May 2013

(11 years, 6 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Lord Nash Portrait Lord Nash
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Those are the main mechanisms that we are looking at. I will write to the noble Baroness if I become aware of any other mechanisms.

Lord Cormack Portrait Lord Cormack
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Further to the observations of my noble friend Lord Hamilton, can the Minister assure the House that consultation means precisely that and that, if the weight of evidence indicates that the Government’s course should be changed, the Government’s course will be changed?

Lord Nash Portrait Lord Nash
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I can only repeat that the Government are looking carefully at all the responses and we will of course weigh all the evidence carefully before coming to a final conclusion.

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