Children: Day Care Sandra Gidley To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many and what proportion of registered childminders were (a) male and (b) female in each local authority area in the South East in each year since 1997. Dawn Primarolo The Childcare and Early Years Providers survey provides estimates of the proportion of childminders1 who are male and female in England from 1998 until 2008. These data are not available for years prior to 1998. Estimates can be provided of the number and proportion of male and female childminders by region for 2006 to 2008, however these data are not available at the local authority level, or for earlier years. Table 1 provides the number and proportion of male and female childminders in England from 1998 until 2008. Table 2 provides the number and proportion of male and female childminders in the south-east in 2006 to 2008. 1 The data provided refer to the number and proportion of working childminders. Childminders who were registered but not working are not included. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |Male childminders |Female childminders | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |Proportion of childminders (Percentage)|Number of male childminders (Percentage)|Proportion of childminders (Percentage)|Number of female childminders| --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |1998|0.5 |470 |99|92,400| --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |2001|1 |400 |99|71,900| --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |2003|1 |800 |99|72,100| --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |2005|2 |1,000 |98|56,700| --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |2006|2 |1,200 |98|56,700| --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |2007|1 |620 |99|59,200| --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |2008|2 |900 |98|55,300| --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |Male childminders |Female childminders | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |Proportion of childminders (Percentage)|Number of male childminders|Proportion of childminders (Percentage)|Number of female childminders| -------------------------------------------------------------------------- |2006|2 |200 |98|10,800| -------------------------------------------------------------------------- |2007|1 |100 |99|11,200| -------------------------------------------------------------------------- |2008|3 |300 |97|10,600| --------------------------------------------------------------------------