Education Secretary Nadhim Zahawi said he is ‘puzzled’ by a report suggesting that their universal availability could be axed.
But Mr Zahawi told Sky’s Trevor Phillips on Sunday: “I saw that story this morning, which I was slightly puzzled by because I don’t recognise it at all. This is absolutely not where we are at.
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