Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Education – in the House of Commons at 2:30 pm on 6 January 2014.
Elizabeth Truss
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Education
2:30,
6 January 2014
I assure the hon. Lady that we are in fact increasing spending on early Intervention and child care across the country. We have increased early intervention spending from £2.1 billion to £2.5 billion, and we are increasing the funding for two, three and four-year-olds as well. The reality is that under this Government the costs of child care have stabilised, whereas under the previous Government they went up by over £1,000 a year.
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