<p>Childcare Support</p>

Part of 2. 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 2:19 pm on 14 June 2016.

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Photo of Carwyn Jones Carwyn Jones Labour 2:19, 14 June 2016

That’s exactly what it must do. One thing I have to say is that the intention is not to displace existing childcare providers. What the scheme will do is help them, in fact, because it’ll mean that they will have a greater source of income than is the case now, and, in many parts of Wales, childcare provision is non-existent, so it will help to stimulate childcare provision in many parts of Wales as well. We know that for many parents, at three and four years old, that is the time when people are looking to go back to work and that’s the time when it’s most difficult and most expensive to get access to childcare, which is why, of course, we made this pledge.