I share the Member's concern, actually, but I'm not sure I'd put it in quite the way that he did. Only registered child minders are currently eligible to receive funding as part of the offer because legislation for 2010, actually, states that the person looking after a child does not act as a child minder if that person is a parent or relative of the child, or a foster parent of the child. So, we can't currently fund child minders to care for children who are related to them unless it's part of a wider scheme where they're looking after other children.

We have been discussing this with PACEY, and we continue to talk to them about what changes, if any, might be made to the legislation ahead of the national roll-out of our offer, with a view to seeing what we can do to balance the two slightly conflicting priorities of ensuring that people meet all of the regulations and qualifications—the food safety and all-the-rest-of-it standards you'd expect for somebody looking after children—and enabling grandparents and so on to take advantage of that scheme. So, we are working on that. I do share some of his concerns, but I wouldn't put it in quite the way he did, and we are actively looking to see what we can do about it.