Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

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

Across the UK Estate we provide a range of rooms that can be used by nursing mothers and mothers wishing to express. Room options include our first aid rooms, wellbeing rooms which are private and any meeting room where there is adequate privacy. Expressed milk can be stored in any office refrigerator. Arrangements are set out in our FCO intranet pages.