School-based Nursery Capital Grants Debate

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Department: Department for International Development

School-based Nursery Capital Grants

Sean Woodcock Excerpts
Wednesday 2nd April 2025

(2 days, 22 hours ago)

Commons Chamber
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Nusrat Ghani Portrait Madam Deputy Speaker (Ms Nusrat Ghani)
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Order. Long questions are just going to prevent others from getting in, so I ask Members please to keep them short.

Sean Woodcock Portrait Sean Woodcock (Banbury) (Lab)
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In response to my hon. Friend the Member for Bootle (Peter Dowd), I actually think there are fewer Conservative Members present than there are pages in the book “The Very Hungry Caterpillar”, which says everything about where they are coming from.

I am really grateful to the Secretary of State for her statement and for the fact that the town of Chipping Norton in my constituency will get one of the first 300 school-based nurseries announced today. Does she find it hard, as I do, to take lectures from the Conservative party when it comes to the provision of childcare?

Bridget Phillipson Portrait Bridget Phillipson
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Yes. It is this Labour Government who are getting on and delivering the childcare places that parents across our country want to see, including in my hon. Friend’s constituency of Banbury. I know how hard he works for his constituents to make sure that their voices are heard in this place. He is a real champion for local families, and I want to make sure that, by working together with him and colleagues from right across the House, we deliver better life chances for all our children.