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But will Britain’s nurseries provide the places?

in Lisa Evans’s office, but there’s enough for the important stuff. Bags of chocolate eggs are perched on a cardboard box, ready for daily hunts in the run-up to Easter. At Abacus Nursery and Childcare in New Romney, a pebble’s throw from the Kent coast, the rooms where children play and learn are light and airy. But the register is as full as the manager’s cubbyhole.

The chancellor is also lifting the cap on help for those parents on universal credit, the main working-age benefit, who buy extra hours—from £646 for one child and £1,108 for two or more, where it has been stuck for years, to £951 and £1,630 respectively. They will also be able to claim in advance, rather than wait for weeks, which they can ill afford.

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