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FACIlITIES

Families and children
The Members’ families’ room, off the Lower Waiting Hall, Independent
Parliamentary
is available for use by your spouse or partner and other
Standards Authority
family members on sitting days from 10am until the rise of (IPSA)
the House and on non-sitting days from 10am to 6pm. A 020 7811 6400
television set and a small selection of toys are available there. info@
parliamentary
standards.org.uk
Your staff who have children may be eligible to claim
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childcare vouchers if they need to pay for childcare in order parliamentary
to work. Contact the Independent Parliamentary Standards standards.org.uk
Authority (IPSA) for further information.
There is a baby care room on the second floor of the Palace,
near the pulpit on the Upper Committee Corridor, where
parents may feed babies in privacy and comfort.
Baby changing facilities are available directly opposite this
room. On the principal floor, there are baby-changing facilities
off the Lower Waiting Hall. There are also baby-changing
facilities on the first floor of Portcullis House, one next to
Meeting Room P and another close to the Attlee Suite.
nursery
A nursery providing spaces for up to 40 children will be Nursery x1592
opened by the House of Commons in September 2010.
The nursery will be in 1 Parliament Street and children, of
Members, Members’ staff and House staff, up to five years of
age will be able to attend.
lost property
Lost property is managed by staff in the Hallkeepers Lodge, Lost property
x4626
which is behind the Bookstall in St Stephen’s Hall, to whom
HKL@parliament.
lost property should be handed and any enquiries addressed.
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When the Hallkeeper’s Lodge is closed any urgent enquiries Duty resident
Office Keeper
about lost property should be made to the duty resident (urgent enquiries)
Office Keeper. 076 5959 3865