Parliamentary search - Childcare Bill

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2005-06

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Childcare Bill.
Tuesday, 8 November 2005
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Proceeding contributions

Ruth Kelly | 440 c25 (Link to this contribution) I made it quite clear that there were no new unfunded costs in the Bill. Local authorities have a du...

Ruth Kelly | 440 c24 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time. Today is a landmark for families and childr...

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Lord Goodman of Wycombe | 440 c24 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State referred to the new duties that the Bill would impose on local authorities. W...

Ruth Kelly | 440 c25 (Link to this contribution) Yes, there is, and the House will shortly debate the Work and Families Bill, which will build on the...

Baroness May of Maidenhead | 440 c25 (Link to this contribution) I noted the right hon. Lady’s comment about maternity pay being extended in the Work and Families Bi...

Ruth Kelly | 440 c25 (Link to this contribution) We will debate those issues in the House next week. I urge the right hon. Lady to be patient and mak...

Hywel Williams | 440 c25-6 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State referred to the large number of child care places now available. Would she sa...

Ruth Kelly | 440 c26 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes an incredibly important point. We need not only to tackle child care for th...

Ruth Kelly | 440 c24 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman will be aware of the £17 billion that we have put into child care provision over ...

Mark Prisk | 440 c24-5 (Link to this contribution) In her response to my hon. Friend the Member for Wycombe (Mr. Goodman), the Secretary of State sugge...

Liz Blackman | 440 c26 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend has just mentioned provision for disabled children. She will know that provisio...

Ruth Kelly | 440 c26 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a very important point. How children are looked after and the quality and leade...

Edward Leigh | 440 c26 (Link to this contribution) In the context of her earlier answer, can the Secretary of State guarantee, in the interests of givi...

Ruth Kelly | 440 c27 (Link to this contribution) I shall give way once more before making some progress.

Joan Humble | 440 c27 (Link to this contribution) Earlier, my right hon. Friend mentioned affordability. When she looks at the special needs of childr...

Ruth Kelly | 440 c27 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a good point. The Bill tries to ensure that there is sufficient affordable prov...

David Evennett | 440 c27 (Link to this contribution) I was interested to hear the right hon. Lady’s response to the hon. Member for Blackpool, North and ...

Ruth Kelly | 440 c26 (Link to this contribution) I am very aware that, from time to time, the Opposition make the proposal that there should be tax r...

Ruth Kelly | 440 c26-7 (Link to this contribution) I want to make some progress and then I will take interventions from my colleagues and others. The ...

Lord Goodman of Wycombe | 440 c58-9 (Link to this contribution) Indeed; and my hon. Friend—obviously—is still here. I no longer have the honour to serve on that Com...

John Bercow | 440 c59 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend mentions regulation. The Government say that the Bill will simplify regulation, but w...

Helen Goodman | 440 c59-60 (Link to this contribution) I was concerned that my hon. Friend was about to ask me a form of question that he has been known to...

Helen Goodman | 440 c60-3 (Link to this contribution) I am pleased to follow the hon. Member for Wycombe (Mr. Goodman), although I do not know whether he ...

Rob Wilson | 440 c63-5 (Link to this contribution) I do not wish to detain the House for too long because we can all agree about a awful lot in the Bil...

Nadine Dorries | 440 c48 (Link to this contribution) In a previous life, I visited a large number of Sure Start projects; for example, the Newcastle cent...

Ann Coffey | 440 c55-7 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the Bill. The Government’s continuing investment in child care and the working tax credit ...

Annette Brooke | 440 c48-55 (Link to this contribution) There are strengths and weaknesses in diversity and in some ways much was learned by having differen...

Lord Goodman of Wycombe | 440 c57-8 (Link to this contribution) I want to begin by briefly considering the context in which the Bill is set. We all know as constitu...

Ed Miliband | 440 c69 (Link to this contribution) I take that point. I recognise that sustainability and availability are a particular problem in rura...

John Bercow | 440 c69 (Link to this contribution) As always, I am listening to the hon. Gentleman’s speech with great interest. He posits the scenario...

Ed Miliband | 440 c66-9 (Link to this contribution) I was going to come on to the hon. Member for Reading, East. It is partly a privilege to speak beca...

Hywel Williams | 440 c69 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman posits three causes: market failure, a lack of perfect information, and availabil...

Rob Wilson | 440 c65 (Link to this contribution) If the hon. Lady will allow me to continue for few moments, I will address that very point. It make...

Ed Miliband | 440 c66 (Link to this contribution) It is a privilege to speak in the debate, following my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for ...

Rob Wilson | 440 c65-6 (Link to this contribution) I am aware of the investment, as I recognised earlier. Perhaps the Minister could use this opportun...

Helen Goodman | 440 c65 (Link to this contribution) Is the hon. Gentleman aware that since 1997, under the Sure Start programme, the Government have put...

Hywel Williams | 440 c75-6 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes an extremely pertinent point. It is interesting that the grandparents did n...

Madeleine Moon | 440 c76-9 (Link to this contribution) As a Welsh Member, it is with pleasure that I carry on the Welsh theme from the hon. Member for Caer...

John Bercow | 440 c79 (Link to this contribution) I agree that that is an example of precisely the sort of flexibility that we want to see and need to...

Ed Miliband | 440 c71-2 (Link to this contribution) I suppose that there is a difference of opinion. I have not had the experience of being in oppositio...

John Bercow | 440 c71 (Link to this contribution) Uncharacteristically, the hon. Gentleman has identified a logical lacuna in his own argument, and in...

John Bercow | 440 c74-5 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman mentioned grandparents providing care for people in their own family. Earlier in ...

Hywel Williams | 440 c72-4 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Doncaster, North (Edward Miliband), who gave a finely...

Ed Miliband | 440 c69-70 (Link to this contribution) I take the point that Governments can fail as well as markets, but I slightly take issue with the ho...

Ed Miliband | 440 c70-1 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Lady for her intervention. I completely agree that we are talking about a ...

Annette Brooke | 440 c70 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman agree that the thrust of the Bill is to make the local authority the commiss...

Baroness May of Maidenhead | 440 c36-7 (Link to this contribution) Indeed, and those costs are ongoing because the assessment must carry on; it is not a one-off effort...

Ed Miliband | 440 c35 (Link to this contribution) There is little surprise that concern has been expressed about the Opposition’s view on Sure Start, ...

Baroness May of Maidenhead | 440 c34-5 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady makes a valuable point about her experience in her constituency. She might be aware, h...

Baroness May of Maidenhead | 440 c35 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman should pay more attention not only to my speeches and those of other Conservative...

John Bercow | 440 c36 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend has identified one example in which what the Government said does not appear to match...

Baroness May of Maidenhead | 440 c35-6 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for his helpful sedentary intervention. We set out our views in a number of m...

Lord Goodman of Wycombe | 440 c36 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend the Member for Buckingham (Mr. Bercow) referred to clauses 12 and 13, but clause 11 s...

Baroness May of Maidenhead | 440 c36 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend has subjected the Bill to his characteristically rigorous assessment and he is absolu...

Ann Coffey | 440 c34 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Lady might not be aware that in my constituency the Bridgehall and Adswood project ha...

Baroness May of Maidenhead | 440 c37 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady says that she has looked at clause 41, but I suggest that she look at clause 41(2)(b) ...

Joan Humble | 440 c37 (Link to this contribution) Clause 41 introduces the learning and development requirements, and I note that it specifically poin...

Baroness May of Maidenhead | 440 c37 (Link to this contribution) I am going to make some progress. Babies develop at their own pace and learn to walk, talk and unde...

Baroness May of Maidenhead | 440 c38 (Link to this contribution) No, I am going to make some more progress. I am going to return to the Professional Association of N...

Nick Hurd | 440 c39-40 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend agree that the success of this Government’s strategy depends on the qualit...

Baroness May of Maidenhead | 440 c39 (Link to this contribution) No. As I said, I hope that in Committee, the Government will work with us to ensure that it is paren...

Baroness May of Maidenhead | 440 c40 (Link to this contribution) I entirely agree with the extremely valid point that my hon. Friend makes. Quality is a key issue th...

Baroness Hughes of Stretford | 440 c39 (Link to this contribution) I do not want Members to feel that they are being misled. Has the right hon. Lady read the framework...

Baroness May of Maidenhead | 440 c39 (Link to this contribution) If the hon. Gentleman is unable to take a light-hearted and off-the-cuff remark relating to educatio...

Helen Goodman | 440 c39 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Lady give way?

Baroness May of Maidenhead | 440 c39 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Minister for her intervention. When she winds up, perhaps she could explain how...

Michael Connarty | 440 c38 (Link to this contribution) I do not really want to interrupt the right hon. Lady’s fantasy, but she really must look north. The...

Michael Connarty | 440 c39 (Link to this contribution) Could the right hon. Lady please explain her earlier remark? I do not understand what she was trying...

Annette Brooke | 440 c46-8 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Blackpool, North and Fleetwood (Mrs. Humble), whose c...

Joan Humble | 440 c46 (Link to this contribution) I could not possibly comment on the latter point, but I agree with the hon. Gentleman on the former....

John Bercow | 440 c46 (Link to this contribution) I am listening with great interest and respect to the hon. Lady, who clearly knows a great deal abou...

Joan Humble | 440 c45-6 (Link to this contribution) Everybody present is taking part in this debate because we all care about these children and their n...

Adam Afriyie | 440 c44-5 (Link to this contribution) I recently visited Bracknell Forest borough council educational services; we toured one or two of th...

Joan Humble | 440 c42-4 (Link to this contribution) I was going to put that question to the Minister, and I hope that she will respond to both the hon. ...

Joan Humble | 440 c41-2 (Link to this contribution) It is with great pleasure that I rise to support this excellent Bill. It is good news for parents, i...

John Bercow | 440 c42 (Link to this contribution) It is very important that we use our terms precisely. The Bill clearly imposes a duty on local autho...

Baroness May of Maidenhead | 440 c40 (Link to this contribution) I suggest to the Minister that she look at the record, because my hon. Friend the Member for East Wo...

Ruth Kelly | 440 c27-8 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes an important point. That is why it is so important that we have invested £1...

Mark Harper | 440 c28 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State has made several references to the duties placed on local authorities, and th...

Ruth Kelly | 440 c28 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman does not take into account the fact that, over the next three years, there will b...

Sally Keeble | 440 c28 (Link to this contribution) May I raise with my right hon. Friend the fact that the ““Every Child Matters”” document did not pay...

Ruth Kelly | 440 c28 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a good point. Housing is a key part of the ““Every Child Matters”” agenda and n...

Helen Goodman | 440 c28 (Link to this contribution) Clause 6 places a duty on local authorities to secure sufficient child care for working parents. Doe...

Ruth Kelly | 440 c28 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an important point. The generosity of the working tax credit system has been in...

Theresa Villiers | 440 c28 (Link to this contribution) Will the Secretary of State give way?

Ruth Kelly | 440 c28-9 (Link to this contribution) I must make some progress. Because life chances are still too often determined by parental backgrou...

Ruth Kelly | 440 c29 (Link to this contribution) I must make some progress. To achieve that, every local authority will have to take into account wh...

Ed Miliband | 440 c31 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Lady give way?

Baroness May of Maidenhead | 440 c31 (Link to this contribution) It seems a little early, but if the hon. Gentleman feels the need to intervene, I shall give way.

Ruth Kelly | 440 c29-30 (Link to this contribution) I do not. The hon. Gentleman is right to say that the duty refers specifically to working families b...

Baroness May of Maidenhead | 440 c30-1 (Link to this contribution) I welcome many of the aims and much of the content of the Bill, which the Secretary of State has exp...

Ruth Kelly | 440 c29 (Link to this contribution) I give way one last time to the hon. Gentleman, who has been very persistent.

Nick Hurd | 440 c29 (Link to this contribution) Does the Secretary of State share the concerns of the Daycare Trust, whose judgment is that the Bill...

Nick Hurd | 440 c29 (Link to this contribution) Will the Secretary of State give way?

Baroness May of Maidenhead | 440 c31-2 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right that, contrary to the claims made by the Secretary of State about child pove...

Ed Miliband | 440 c31 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Lady defends, rather surprisingly, the record of the last Conservative Government. Le...

Andrew Gwynne | 440 c33 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Lady give way?

Baroness May of Maidenhead | 440 c33 (Link to this contribution) In a moment. It is wonderful, is it not? Labour Members seem to think that all that matters is a nu...

Andrew Gwynne | 440 c33 (Link to this contribution) Parents in my constituency, and in many other constituencies, do have a real choice. There are Sure ...

Baroness May of Maidenhead | 440 c33-4 (Link to this contribution) I am pleased to hear of the hon. Gentleman’s constituency experience, but I can tell him that many o...

Kitty Ussher | 440 c32 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Lady mentioned her backing for supported parenting for every child. Why, then, did he...

Baroness May of Maidenhead | 440 c32-3 (Link to this contribution) I suggest that the hon. Lady look at our manifesto proposals for parents in relation to flexibility ...

Helen Goodman | 440 c33 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Lady may not be aware that there are half a million more child care places than there...

Baroness May of Maidenhead | 440 c33 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady should look carefully at what has happened as a result of the Government’s child care ...

Ruth Kelly | 440 c34 (Link to this contribution) Are you going to support it?

Baroness May of Maidenhead | 440 c34 (Link to this contribution) If the Secretary of State had been listening about 30 seconds ago, she would have heard me say that ...

Tim Loughton | 440 c97-8 (Link to this contribution) I do not think that there is a circle to square. My point is that we are in danger of treating all c...

Baroness Hughes of Stretford | 440 c98-102 (Link to this contribution) We have had an interesting debate, with some knowledgeable contributions from hon. Members on both s...

Roberta Blackman-Woods | 440 c85-8 (Link to this contribution) I support the Bill, and I am pleased to follow the hon. Member for Bexleyheath and Crayford (Mr. ...

Kitty Ussher | 440 c88-9 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the Bill, which, I believe, encapsulates the heart of our party’s values—to aim to break t...

Tim Loughton | 440 c91-7 (Link to this contribution) That is a good point. If one looks at the survey that the National Day Nurseries Association has con...

Tim Loughton | 440 c89-91 (Link to this contribution) I am delighted to be addressing such a packed House at this time of the evening. I feel that the gen...

Helen Goodman | 440 c91 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman said that there were many areas with spare capacity. Does he have any sense of wh...

John Bercow | 440 c83 (Link to this contribution) I agree with what my hon. Friend says about workplace nurseries. Would it not be sensible to conside...

David Evennett | 440 c81-3 (Link to this contribution) I am pleased to participate in this important debate. It has been of a high calibre and there have b...

Mark Williams | 440 c84 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps it would be helpful to reiterate that the word in the Bill that is giving many of us a probl...

David Evennett | 440 c83-4 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a sensible point, as he usually does on these matters. We should consider tax i...

Madeleine Moon | 440 c79-81 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman will be pleased to know that that is exactly what the Genesis project provides. I...

David Evennett | 440 c85 (Link to this contribution) Time will tell on that one. I am sure that this issue will be discussed further when the Bill goes i...

Madeleine Moon | 440 c84 (Link to this contribution) I have listened to this argument throughout the afternoon, and I think that hon. Members are making ...

David Evennett | 440 c84 (Link to this contribution) I totally agree with the hon. Gentleman that what is needed is structured play. We want our children...

John Bercow | 440 c85 (Link to this contribution) This theme has percolated much of the debate. I confess that I am much more sanguine about the provi...

David Evennett | 440 c84-5 (Link to this contribution) I very much hope that we are, but I have a niggling feeling that the Bill is proposing something mor...

John Bercow | 440 c58 (Link to this contribution) So is Fleetwood.

Helen Goodman | 440 c65 (Link to this contribution) Conservative Members have said repeatedly that they are in favour of choice, but against competition...

David Evennett | 440 c35 (Link to this contribution) More homework to be done.

Baroness Hughes of Stretford | 440 c40 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the right hon. Lady for giving way a second time. Given the concern that she expres...

Helen Goodman | 440 c97 (Link to this contribution) Opposition Members, including the hon. Gentleman, have repeatedly said that they do not want targeti...

John Bercow | 440 c66 (Link to this contribution) And my hon. Friend the Member for Reading, East (Mr. Wilson).

Baroness May of Maidenhead | 440 c38-9 (Link to this contribution) I was going to make a reference to the hon. Gentleman—who has of course himself gone through educati...

Tim Loughton | 440 c31 (Link to this contribution) The gap has got wider.

Peter Bone | 440 c25 (Link to this contribution) A number of constituents, especially young mums, have told me that they feel under enormous pressure...

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