Childcare voucher changes delayed after Commons debate

Government agrees to keep system open for six more months after pressure from LabourLabour has pushed the government into agreeing to a six-month extension of the workplace childcare voucher system after using a parliamentary procedure to force a vote on a series of changes that ministers had hoped to put in place by directive.However, as expected, the government won a vote on a parallel opposition motion that would have halted the imposition of an earnings threshold for free school meals. Conti