Mary Macleod
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Monday 6th January 2014
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Mary Macleod (Brentford and Isleworth) (Con)
I congratulate the Minister on what this Government have done on child care. There have recently been proposals for universal child care. Will she give an estimate of the costs that that might entail?
Elizabeth Truss
The Department for Education has worked out that universal full-time child care for children aged one to four would cost £18 billion.