§ Mr. DowdTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment what plans her Department has to encourage employers in the London area to adopt or maintain workplace nurseries.
§ Mr. McLoughlinThe Department encourages employers throughout the country to consider family-friendly employment policies including flexible working and help with child care, through publications such as "The Best of Both Worlds". The new out-of-school child care grant delivered by training and enterprise councils will create some 50,000 new child care places for school aged children over the next three years, which may include workplace facilities.