Giving Every Child the Best Start in Life Debate
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Nusrat Ghani
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Giving Every Child the Best Start in Life
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Several hon. Members rose—
Madam Deputy Speaker (Ms Nusrat Ghani)
Order. To ensure that everyone gets in, could questions and answers be short?
Joe Powell (Kensington and Bayswater) (Lab)
The IFS found that Sure Start delivered benefits significantly greater than its cost, yet it was still slashed by the Tories, with well over 1,000 centres closing. It was one of the biggest acts of vandalism under austerity, stunting life chances for too many for a generation. Can the Secretary of State outline how she expects this investment to work in areas with very high levels of inequality, such as my constituency, where life expectancy at birth differs by 19 years between one community and another?