When I arrived as a newly elected Labour MP in 1997, there were hundreds of all party parliamentary groups covering subjects like caravans and beer but not one on childcare.
Having been chair of Working for Childcare (formerly the Workplace Nurseries Campaign) I established the first APPG for Childcare. Twenty years later the House of Commons has certainly improved as a family-friendly employer for the thousands of people who work there.
But wider than the Palaces of Westminster has been the dramatic change in support for early years education and childcare across the UK.
The collective impact of the 101 Labour women - including many young parents - arriving in parliament was a sea change in our party's policy. Traditional opposition to a minimum wage had been replaced by support for it; we developed policy on paid maternity leave; equal pay; and childcare.
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