HC Deb 21 April 1988 vol 131 cc507-8W
Ms. Richardson

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what child care provision his Department

Grade Proposed rate (minimum and maximum) at 1 April 1988 Performance point maximum1 after 1 October 19882
6 22,226–28,154 32,784
5 27,087–30,387 35,371
1 Subjct to performance assessment.
2 After 1 April 1988 in the case of Crown prosecutors.
3 These figures do not include London weighting.

provides for pre-school age children of the Department's employees; what child care provision, for school holiday and/or after school care, is provided for employees' children aged five and over; what plans there are for increasing provision in the next five years; and how these are to be funded.

Mr. Peter Bottomley

The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Centre at Swansea runs an annual summer holiday play scheme for children of school age. An experimental child care acheme was held at the Cardington residential training centre for two weeks in August 1987. The Department is considering what scope there is for further provision without continuing subsidy.