Finance (No. 3) Bill

I entirely understand what my hon. Friend has said. There is a real inconsistency in the Government's approach. While I think it commendable to raise additional money to target early-years provision, particularly in constituencies such as mine, I also think that the Government's so-called family-friendly approach is deeply questionable. As I said earlier in an intervention, when the Prime Minister was Leader of the Opposition he made 5t clear that he would be proud to lead the most family-friendly Government in history. Whether the Government are family-friendly is, of course, a matter for debate and conjecture. I can only say that the constituents who regularly come to my advice bureau seem to have been clobbered time and again by the changes that the Government are implementing, many of which—