Childcare: I'll cut costs to boost workforce, says Chancellor Jeremy Hunt

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The chancellor has vowed to assistance trim the outgo of childcare astatine Wednesday's Budget, arsenic portion of a wider thrust to assistance radical into the workforce.

Jeremy Hunt told the BBC costs were stopping immoderate parents taking a occupation - and said the authorities could marque a "big difference" to easiness them.

He has already announced that families connected benefits volition person authorities childcare enactment up front.

But helium signalled that the authorities would not beryllium capable to assistance everyone.

Expanding enactment beyond those connected cosmopolitan recognition would beryllium "expensive", helium told the Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg programme.

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