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	registered interest
	date	04/02/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Sure Start Programme: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, under what circumstances his Department will request the return of funding allocated to local authorities that dispose of or change the use of buildings or assets funded wholly or partly through Sure Start capital grants.
	tabling member constituency	Norwich South
	tabling member printed	Clive Lewis
	uin	216375
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2019 answer text <p>Where local authorities dispose of or change the use of buildings or other assets funded wholly or partly through Sure Start capital grants, they must repay the money through the claw-back process. The Department for Education has a thorough set of monitoring arrangements in place regarding clawback rules. Further information on the clawback process is set out in the ‘Sure Start, Early Years and Childcare Capital Guidance’ at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/273740/capital_guidance.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/273740/capital_guidance.pdf</a>.</p><p>I refer the hon. Member for Norwich South to the answer given by my hon. Friend, former Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Childcare and Education, Sam Gyimah, on 29 February 2016 to Question <a href="https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2016-02-24/28207/" target="_blank">28207.</a></p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 07/02/2019 17:08:40 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
	tabling member	4500 label Biography information for Clive Lewis

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	registered interest
	date	05/06/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Sure Start Programme: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether he is taking steps to increase funding for the Sure Start programme; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Coventry South
	tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
	uin	260549
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/06/2019 answer text <p>We welcome the recent report by the Institute for Fiscal Studies on the health effects of Sure Start. Across the key health outcomes for children and young people, children living in households in the lowest socio-economic groups have worse outcomes than other children. There are clear benefits to early investment and support through pregnancy and the early years<strong>. </strong>Children’s centres can play an important role in supporting families, but it is right local councils decide how to organise and provide services for families in their areas to meet local needs – whether this is through children’s centre buildings or delivering services in different ways.</p><p> </p><p>Local authorities have a duty under the Childcare Act (2006) to ensure sufficient children’s centres to meet the needs of local families. Funding for children’s services (including children’s centres) is made available through the local government finance settlement. In addition, other government funding, including that for public health, adult skills training and troubled families may also be used locally to support services delivered wholly, or in part, through children’s centres. Children services funding for 2020-2021 and beyond will be determined in the Spending Review.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 260548 question first answered 10/06/2019 13:23:43 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
	tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

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	registered interest
	date	17/01/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Sure Start Programme: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much funding from the public purse has been allocated to the Sure Start programme in each local authority; and how many families accessed health and support from the Sure Start programme within each local authority in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Batley and Spen
	tabling member printed	Tracy Brabin
	uin	123507
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2018 answer text <p>Funding for children's services (including children's centres) gives local authorities the freedom to decide how best to target resources and respond flexibly to meet local need. Local authorities must meet their statutory duties on children’s centres from funding that currently forms part of the Department for Communities and Local Government Business Rates Retention Scheme.</p><p> </p><p>Since April 2010, local authorities have reported expenditure on children’s centres (combined with early years) through annual Section 251 returns. This information is published at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-local-authority-school-finance-data#local-authority-and-school-finance" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-local-authority-school-finance-data#local-authority-and-school-finance</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/section-251-materials" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/section-251-materials</a>.</p><p> </p><p>Other government funding, including that for public health, adult skills training and troubled families may also be used locally to support services delivered wholly, or in part, through children’s centres.</p><p> </p><p>The department does not hold data on the number of families that access health and support services through children’s centres centrally. This data is held at a local area level.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 22/01/2018 17:57:02 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
	tabling member	4588 label Biography information for Tracy Brabin