HC Deb 04 June 1992 vol 208 cc610-1W
Mr. Llwyd

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what percentage of(a) up to two year-olds and (b) over three year-olds are currently in publicly-funded child care places in Wales.

Mr. Gwilym Jones

The information held centrally relates to children under 5. The numbers of publicly funded child care places in Wales at 31 March 1991 are shown in the following table:

Full day care Sessional care
Provided by the local authority 275 275
Children in private or voluntary facilities paid for by the local authority 211 731
486 1,006
Rate per 1,000 population aged 0–4 2.5 5.3