Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what (a) facilities and (b) other support her Department provides for (i) visitors and (ii) staff for (A) lactating mothers and (B) the expressing of breast milk.

The Department for Education’s main office in London and other Department sites in Coventry, Darlington, Manchester and Sheffield have rooms available for use by nursing mothers. The Nottingham site is a conference centre, with overnight accommodation facilities.

My department has issued guidance to managers on the support available to new and expectant mothers.