Sharon Hodgson
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(12 years, 10 months ago)
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Sarah Teather
I thank my hon. Friend for making that clear and putting it on the record.
Mrs Sharon Hodgson (Washington and Sunderland West) (Lab)
I know that the Minister wants parents to be more involved in their local children’s centres, but I am not sure that parents taking their council to court is exactly what she meant. Will the Secretary of State and the Ministers accept that it was their choice to slash the funding and remove the ring fence that led to the present chaos? If so, will they use the imminent early years statement finally to set out how they will keep their promise and the Prime Minister’s numerous promises to protect Sure Start from cuts and closures?
Sarah Teather
That was an awful lot of waffle. [Interruption.] I will have to wait until everybody stops yelling because I have not got enough voice to yell over everybody else today—[Interruption.]