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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 20 Oct 2015
Education and Adoption Bill

"My Lords, the noble Earl has certainly not taken too long. The House always listens with great interest to his humane and informed words. I declare an interest as leader of a London borough council. All our existing or pending secondary schools are academies or free schools with my authority’s …..."
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Written Question
Children: Day Care
Wednesday 22nd July 2015

Asked by: Lord True (Conservative - Life peer)

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government, for each financial year from 2015–16 to 2020—21, what are the estimated annual costs of providing (1) free childcare for two year-olds, (2) 15 hours of free childcare per week for three and four year-olds, and (3) 30 hours of free childcare per week for three and four year-olds of working parents.

Answered by Lord Nash

Allocations made to local authorities for 15 hours of free childcare per week for three- and four- year-olds totalled £2.2 billion in 2015-16. Allocations in 2015-16 for 15 hours of free childcare per week for disadvantaged two year-olds will be announced shortly.

The government is committed to raise the average hourly rate providers receive from the introduction of the new entitlement from 2017-18. The government is undertaking a review of childcare costs in order to set a new average hourly rate that is fair for providers and delivers value for money for the taxpayer.

Until this review is complete, it is not possible to estimate annual costs of providing free childcare for two year-olds, or 15 hours of free childcare per week for three-and four-year-olds after 2016.

Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 06 Jul 2015
Childcare Bill [HL]

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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 06 Jul 2015
Childcare Bill [HL]

"My Lords, having just spoken from a point of view sympathetic to providers, I now come forward as a paid-up member of the trade union of local authority leaders. I suppose that that is a switch from Dr Jekyll to Mr Hyde, since local authorities have not always been the …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 06 Jul 2015
Childcare Bill [HL]

"My Lords, I apologise to my noble friend. She looked around to see whether I was still in my place. I share the concern of noble Lords who are coming in about the trauma being inflicted on the people of Greece by the euro project, and I have moved along …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 06 Jul 2015
Childcare Bill [HL]

"My Lords, I have a good deal of sympathy for some of things said by the noble Lord, Lord Northbourne, although I would not follow him the entire way. However, while I understand why noble Lords have tried to provoke a debate on regulations—we do need one at some point—at …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 06 Jul 2015
Childcare Bill [HL]

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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 06 Jul 2015
Childcare Bill [HL]

"My Lords, I can be relatively brief, since some of this follows earlier discussions. I have yet to be persuaded that the ranks of providers and settings that we are told are required will spring into being. I was interested in what my noble friend said in response to the …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 06 Jul 2015
Childcare Bill [HL]

"My Lords, I am very grateful, as ever, to my noble friend for listening carefully; I found what he said very reassuring. I will obviously want to look closely at Hansard, but what is important above all is his clear commitment to continuing the dialogue with providers and …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 01 Jul 2015
Childcare Bill [HL]

"My Lords, I raised this matter on Second Reading. I was critical of my noble friend on the Front Bench and of the way in which the Bill had been brought forward. This was from the viewpoint of someone who spent rather too long in Whitehall and even longer—13 years—in …..."
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