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Debate between Stephen Timms and Alex Cunningham(7 years ago)
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Debate between Stephen Timms and Alex Cunningham(12 years, 10 months ago)
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Stephen Timms (East Ham) (Lab)
4. What assessment she has made of the effect on women's employment of providing support for child care.
Alex Cunningham (Stockton North) (Lab)
6. What recent discussions she has had with ministerial colleagues on the role of child care for working mothers.
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (Maria Miller)
The Government fully recognise the importance of child care in helping parents—not just mothers—to move into or stay in work. Under universal credit, we will for the first time extend help with child care costs to those working under 16 hours, benefiting some 80,000 families who previously had no such support.