To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what child care provision his Department provides for pre-school age children of the Department's employees; what child care provision for school holiday and/or after school care is provided for employees' children aged five and over; what plans there are for increasing provision in the next five years; and how these are to be funded.

An experimental child care scheme was held at the Cardington residential training centre for two weeks in August 1987. The Department is considering what scope there is for further provision without continuing subsidy.