We study the singularly perturbed problem —εαΔuε + uε = f (α > 0) with the Dirichlet boundary condition in a perforated domain, in which the holes are distributed periodically with period 2ε throughout a fixed domain Ω. The asymptotic behaviour of uε when ε → 0, together with corrector results and error estimates in L2(Ω), are deduced for all sizes of holes. The behaviour of uε in is obtained for the cases where the size of holes is of order ε or is of a sufficiently smaller order. When the holes' size is of a sufficiently small order, as expected, uε has similar behaviour to that in the case of a non-varying domain.