{"id":35035,"date":"2023-04-17T19:05:52","date_gmt":"2023-04-17T19:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/2023\/04\/17\/sunak-quizzed-over-budget-childcare-policy\/"},"modified":"2023-04-17T19:05:52","modified_gmt":"2023-04-17T19:05:52","slug":"sunak-quizzed-over-budget-childcare-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/?p=35035","title":{"rendered":"Sunak quizzed over Budget childcare policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Rishi Sunak faced questions over a childcare policy unveiled in the spring Budget when he was questioned by MPs in March.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Questioned at the Liaison Committee on 28 March, Mr Sunak did not mention his wife Akshata Murthy&#8217;s links to Koru Kids, a childcare agency.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Labour MP Catherine McKinnell asked Mr Sunak whether he had any interest to declare, and in reply he said: &#8220;No, all my disclosures are declared in the normal way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Chancellor Jeremy Hunt announced a pilot of payments for new childminders, with more for those who sign up through agencies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Ms Murty was listed as a shareholder in one of those agencies, Koru Kids, as recently as 6 March.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-politics-65301099\" class=\"ssrcss-k17ofw-InlineLink e1no5rhv0\">Rishi Sunak investigated over declaration of interest<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-politics-65305175?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Rishi Sunak faced questions over a childcare policy unveiled in the spring Budget when he was questioned by MPs in March. Questioned at the Liaison Committee on 28 March, &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35036,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35035"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/35036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}