§ Mr. McNamaraTo ask the President of the Board of Trade what are the child care or nursery facilities within his Department; and what is the breakdown in their use(a) by grade and (b) by gender. [15235]
§ Mr. Ian TaylorThe DTI—excluding the following executive agencies: Companies House, the Insolvency Service, the National Engineering Laboratory, the National Physical Laboratory, the Laboratory of the Government Chemists, the National Weights and Measures Laboratory, the Patent Office and the Radiocommunications Agency—provides school holiday playscheme places in London and a number of regional locations.
The figures showing the number of staff whose children used the playschemes during 1994–95 are set out in the following table:
Grade level Male Female Total 5 2 2 4 6 1 — 1 7 12 2 14 SEO 5 3 8 HEO 6 10 16 EO 1 7 8 AO — 19 19 AA 1 9 10 Total 28 52 80 The chief executives of the DTI's executive agencies will respond direct to the hon. Member.
Letter from David Durham to Mr. Kevin McNamara, dated 30 March 1995: 770W
I have been asked by the President of the Board of Trade to respond to your question concerning child care and nursery facilities.Companies House does not provide nursery facilities, but we do provide financial assistance (50% of the cost) to staff who wish to use our approved Holiday Play Care Scheme during the Easter and Summer school holidays. This assistance has been available since the Summer of 1993.I have detailed below the average usage, grade and gender split for the last three holidays ie Summer 1993, Easter 1994 and Summer 1994.
Average number of staff using the scheme Average gender split Average grade split % % 19 Female 93 Clerical 71 Male 7 Management 29 Please let me know if you require any further details.
Letter from Peter Joyce to Kevin McNamara, dated 30 March 1995:
The President of the Board of Trade has asked me to reply to your question about childcare or nursery facilities in the Insolvency Service.The Service participates in the DTI Playscheme in Central London, operational in school holidays, and provides a number of places at a subsidised rate. Usage in the 21 months period from April 1993 to December 1994 was:
Playscheme days Staff grade Gender Assistant Official 3 Receiver (B) Male 27 Examiner (D) Female Administrative 34 Officer Female 67 Typist Female Total 131 Letter from Richard Worswick to Mr. Kevin McNamara, dated 30 March 1995:
The President of the Board of Trade has asked me to reply to your question concerning childcare/nursery facilities available at the laboratory of the Government Chemist (LGC).The three DTI Agencies based at Teddington, Middlesex (National Physical Laboratory, National Weights and Measures Laboratory and the Laboratory of the Government Chemist) together provide a nursery facility at the Teddington site for employees' children of pre-school age and babies over 3 months old. An analysis (by grade and gender) of the 17 LGC employees who have children attending the nursery is given in the table below.In addition, two children of employees of DTI's Chemicals and Biotechnology Division (some of whose staff are co-located with LGC on the Teddington site) attend the nursery facility. The data for these employees is shown in brackets in the table below.771W
Gender of employee Employee grade Number in grade Male Female Grade 7 2 1 1 S-level grades 4 3 1 H–1level grades 3 1 2 EO and equivalent grades 4 1 3 Administrative, support and equivalent (+2 CB) 4 — (+2 CB) 4 Totals (+2 CB) 17 6 (+2 CB) 11 Letter from W. Edgar to Mr. Kevin McNamara dated, 30 March 1995:
I would refer to your Parliamentary Question to the President to the Board of Trade concerning child care and nursery facilities available within his Department. I would confirm that this agency does not provide any such facilities.Letter from Peter Clapham to Mr. Kevin McNamara dated, 30 March 1995:
I am writing in response to your question to the President of the Board of Trade regarding child care facilities within the DTI, and their use (a) by grade and (b) by gender.The National Physical Laboratory, in conjunction with the Laboratory of the Government Chemist and the National Weights and Measures Laboratory, provides an on-site nursery at Teddington.As at February 1995, usage of the nursery by staff at NPL was:-
Grade Number a) by grade Grade 7 6 SSO & equivalent 1 HSO & equivalent 5 SO & equivalent 6 ASO & equivalent 1 b) by gender Male 7 Female 12 I hope the above provides the information you require.
Letter from Seton Bennett to Mr. Kevin McNamara, dated 30 March 1995:
The President of the Board of Trade has asked me to reply on behalf of this Agency to your Parliamentary Question about child care and nursery facilities.There is a nursery facility on the Teddington site shared by NWML with the National Physical Laboratory and the Laboratory of the Government Chemist. Three members of NWML staff currently use the facility as follows:
- Grade
- 1 Higher Professional & Technical Officer
- 1 Higher Scientific Officer
- 1 Scientific Officer
- Gender
- 1 female
- 2 male
Letter from P.R.S. Hartnack to Mr. Kevin McNamara, dated 30 March 1995:
I have been asked to reply—with respect to the Patent Office—to your recent Parliamentary question to the President of the Board of Trade concerning child care or nursery facilities.The Patent Office occupies the Duffryn site at Newport, South Wales, alongside the Central Statistical Office, and has access to the nursery facilities operated by CSO. At the moment six Patent Office employees (two female executive officers, four female administrative officers) place children in the nursery during the working day.In addition, the Patent Office operates playschemes during the Easter and Summer school holidays, when staff at work may find it difficult to arrange care for children at home. We bus children from the Newport site to a larger nursery in Cardiff (about nine miles) at the beginning of the working day, and return them to the site at the end.Usage in 1994 was as follows:772W
Grade Gender Number Easter playscheme HEO F 2 HEO M 1 EO M 1 AO F 1
Grade Gender Number AO M 1 Support grade M 1 AA F 2 Summer playscheme HEO F 2 HEO M 2 EO F 3 AO F 2 Support grade M 1 AA M 1 AA F 1 (HEO stands for higher executive officer and AA for administrative assistance). I hope this is helpful.
Letter from Jim Norton to Mr. Kevin McNamara, dated 30 March 1995:
CHILD CARE AND NURSERY FACILITIESThe President of the Board of Trade has asked me to reply to your question about child care and nursery facilities.The Agency does not have any child care or nursery facilities at present and there are no plans to introduce such facilities in the foreseeable future.