Mr Halfon, who won a majority in a secret ballot of MPs for the position yesterday (12 July) with 261 votes, takes over from Neil Carmichael, MP for Stroud.
The MP for Harlow in Essex served as skills and apprenticeship minister up until last month when he was sacked by Prime Minister Theresa May following the general election.
In his statement to the House of Commons ahead of the vote, Mr Halfon listed early years as one of his priorities, in particular ‘scrutinising the implementation of the 30 hours of funded childcare and the resources needed to support nursery schools'. He also states he wants to ‘examine the new schools funding formula and work for a fair allocation of available resources, improve standards, particularly in literacy and numeracy’.
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