HC Deb 01 February 1989 vol 146 c260W
Mr. Leighton

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment why the ET child care allowance is not available to married women.

Mr. Nicholls

Child care payments can be made available for married women on employment training provided they are lone parents. Help with child care costs is available to all lone parents regardless of their sex or marital status.

Mr. Leighton

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many women have taken up the child care allowance on ET.

Mr. Nicholls

Comprehensive information is not yet available. Information on the number of trainees from whom child care payments are made will be regularly collected from March and the first results will be available at the end of April 1989. Early indications suggest that over 2,000 lone parents have joined employment training and many of these people will have received help with child care costs.

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