My hon. Friend is right. She highlights another of the Government's key strategic objectives, an objective that commands great support and interest across the House, but the Government fail to put in the infrastructure and the investment that would enable them to deliver such an objective. Again, that is a matter of regret.
Any parent will say that child care remains an enormous challenge for families, particularly in terms of helping parents to access the labour market, but much more broadly than that. We know that UK parents already pay the highest child care charges of any parents in the OECD. That is probably why in the OECD report just last week on progress on child poverty across the OECD nations, it was specifically identified—
Finance (No. 3) Bill
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Kate Green
(Labour)
in the House of Commons on Wednesday, 4 May 2011.
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and
Committee of the Whole House (HC) on Finance (No. 3) Bill.
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