Bridget Phillipson

Bridget Phillipson

Labour — Houghton and Sunderland South

Speaking in the House of Commons on 20 April 2026

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It has been a busy month since the last Education questions, so I will give the House a short update on what my Department has done since then to give our children the best start in life. We began opening 200 new Best Start family hubs, building on the proud legacy of Sure Start; we opened 500 new free breakfast clubs to save parents £450 and give children a great start to the day, and announced the next wave of school-based nurseries, as research showed that Labour has halved childcare costs for families; and we scrapped the two-child limit, putting Labour on course to lift a record number of children out of poverty. Labour is boosting family finances and children’s life chances.

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