Labour pledges to keep government’s expanded childcare scheme

Working parents of two-year-olds are now eligible for 15 hours of government-funded childcare a week during term time. Photograph: lostinbids/Getty Images

Labour would keep the government’s expanded childcare hours, a shadow minister has insisted, after suggestions the party would review the scheme.

Nick Thomas-Symonds said Labour would not reduce the number of hours of government-funded childcare that working parents would be entitled to in England.