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Equally important, given the hit on these bodies, what are the Minister’s plans to ease pressure on the private and voluntary sector of early years provision? The National Day Nurseries Association is particularly concerned about the inequity across different providers. While public sector providers of early years education will be reimbursed for the jobs tax, the private and voluntary sector will not. It seems like rampant discrimination. Only the public sector should be able to provide nurseries, it seems, and others can go to the wall. Since the Government have accepted the principle that early years education should be exempt when offered through the public sector, it makes little sense that the rest of the sector should have to jeopardise their own businesses by paying for the tax.