To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families with reference to the answer of 22 July 2008, Official Report, column 1275W, on children: employment, what plans he has to amend regulations relating to the employment of children; and if he will make a statement. (261084)

We do not currently have plans to amend the regulations relating to the employment of children. The Department for Children, Schools and Families has however issued guidance, in December 2008, on the existing law regulating child employment.