HC Deb 16 October 2001 vol 372 cc1121-2W
23. Ms Walley

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what action he has taken to improve child care for NHS staff. [3786]

Mr. Hutton

The NHS Childcare Strategy centres on providing good quality accessible and affordable child care. We are already making available funding of over £70 million for the provision of 150 additional on-site nurseries by 2004, creating around 7,500 further nursery places. We have also pledged a further £100 million to develop alternative forms of child care.