00:00 It's £140 million that would give us the 3,000 new nurseries, 100,000 new childcare
00:05 places. I'm determined to deliver on the commitments that have been made and make sure parents
00:10 can access childcare and early years support.
00:12 What we've seen here today is that there is a provision for three and four year olds.
00:15 The school have told me they would like the opportunity to expand it to two.
00:18 You're saying 3,000 new nurseries?
00:19 Yes.
00:20 And you're also saying that some of them already exist? So they can't be new if they already
00:22 exist?
00:23 Because it's on delivering on the commitments that have been made to parents. So it would
00:27 be a new provision if the school were to...
00:29 New nurseries?
00:30 Well, in many cases it will be brand new, but in other cases it will be the expansion
00:34 of classes or the expansion of the age range that is available. But it's 100,000 places.
00:38 That is an awful lot of places and would make an enormous difference to families. It would
00:43 lead to 750,000 women being able to take on more hours. It would have an economic impact
00:47 as well as the life chances that we deliver for children.
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