Childcare: Early-years Funding Debate

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Department: Department for Education

Childcare: Early-years Funding

Lord Lexden Excerpts
Wednesday 3rd June 2015

(9 years, 5 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Lord Nash Portrait Lord Nash
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I can give the noble Lord the assurance that we will not be trying to exclude anyone who should qualify for this with any clever wording in the way that he might be suspicious of. We will provide more details in due course but we are aiming this particularly at parents who want to do a bit more work and find that the cost of childcare prevents that.

Lord Lexden Portrait Lord Lexden (Con)
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How many families do the Government expect will benefit from their proposals?