To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what plans he has to make extra child care facilities available in Scotland to meet the need for extra women workers.

[holding answer 19 March 1990]: The Government are encouraging employers to consider provision of child care as part of their measures to attract women into employment, as numbers of young people becoming available for work decline. Private sector employers may themselves provide child care facilities, which are allowable against corporation tax, or act in partnership with other employers, public authorities and voluntary organisations.We continue to give grants to voluntary organisations concerned with child care and through revenue support grant we contribute to the provision made by local authorities.