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1086344

	registered interest
	date	11/03/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Children's Centres: Closures
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many children’s centres have closed in England since 2010.
	tabling member printed	Lord Hain
	uin	HL14382
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/03/2019 answer text <p>Since 18 September 2017, data on Sure Start children’s centres has been supplied by local authorities via the department’s Get Information about Schools database portal at: <a href="https://www.get-information-schools.service.gov.uk/" target="_blank">https://www.get-information-schools.service.gov.uk/</a>.</p><p>Based on information supplied by local authorities as at 12 March 2019, 585 Sure Start children’s centres had closed since April 2010[1].</p><p>However, councils are reconfiguring services to deliver them more efficiently. If a council decides to close a Sure Start children’s centre, statutory guidance is clear that they demonstrate that local children and families will not be adversely affected.</p><p>This government introduced an entitlement to 15 hours a week free early education for the most disadvantaged 2-year-olds – a programme that was not available before 2010. More than 700,000 disadvantaged 2-year-olds have benefitted from free early education places since the introduction of the programme in 2013. There are now more than 22,700 providers delivering places for disadvantaged 2-year-olds.</p><p>We are already starting to see progress. By 2018, 72% of eligible 2-year-olds were taking up the entitlement to free early education - up from 58% in 2015. The 2017/18 Early Years Foundation Stage Profile results show that the proportion of all children achieving a ‘good level of development’ is improving in 2018 - 71.5% of children achieving a good level of development up from 51.7% in 2013.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>[1] Based on information supplied by local authorities as at 12 March 2019, 4:00 pm. These figures may be different to previous answers, and could change again in the future, since local authorities may update the database at any time.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Agnew of Oulton grouped question UIN HL14383 question first answered 25/03/2019 14:38:31 answering member 4689 label Biography information for Lord Agnew of Oulton
	tabling member	567 label Biography information for Lord Hain

1086345

	registered interest
	date	11/03/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Children's Centres: Closures
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many Sure Start centres have closed in England since 2010.
	tabling member printed	Lord Hain
	uin	HL14383
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/03/2019 answer text <p>Since 18 September 2017, data on Sure Start children’s centres has been supplied by local authorities via the department’s Get Information about Schools database portal at: <a href="https://www.get-information-schools.service.gov.uk/" target="_blank">https://www.get-information-schools.service.gov.uk/</a>.</p><p>Based on information supplied by local authorities as at 12 March 2019, 585 Sure Start children’s centres had closed since April 2010[1].</p><p>However, councils are reconfiguring services to deliver them more efficiently. If a council decides to close a Sure Start children’s centre, statutory guidance is clear that they demonstrate that local children and families will not be adversely affected.</p><p>This government introduced an entitlement to 15 hours a week free early education for the most disadvantaged 2-year-olds – a programme that was not available before 2010. More than 700,000 disadvantaged 2-year-olds have benefitted from free early education places since the introduction of the programme in 2013. There are now more than 22,700 providers delivering places for disadvantaged 2-year-olds.</p><p>We are already starting to see progress. By 2018, 72% of eligible 2-year-olds were taking up the entitlement to free early education - up from 58% in 2015. The 2017/18 Early Years Foundation Stage Profile results show that the proportion of all children achieving a ‘good level of development’ is improving in 2018 - 71.5% of children achieving a good level of development up from 51.7% in 2013.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>[1] Based on information supplied by local authorities as at 12 March 2019, 4:00 pm. These figures may be different to previous answers, and could change again in the future, since local authorities may update the database at any time.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Agnew of Oulton grouped question UIN HL14382 question first answered 25/03/2019 14:38:31 answering member 4689 label Biography information for Lord Agnew of Oulton
	tabling member	567 label Biography information for Lord Hain

1086343

	registered interest
	date	11/03/2019
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	Food Banks
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many food banks have opened in (1) England, (2) Wales, (3) Scotland, and (4) Northern Ireland since 2010.
	tabling member printed	Lord Hain
	uin	HL14381
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2019 answer text <p>There is no official data or record of the number of foodbanks in England, Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland. Details of foodbanks operating through the Trussell Trust network and statistics on the number of food parcels distributed can be found on the charity’s website www.trusselltrust.org. The Independent Foodbank Network is also working to identify food banks in the United Kingdom operating outside the Trussell Trust network; further information is on their website www.foodaidnetwork.org.uk</p> answering member printed Baroness Buscombe grouped question UIN HL14329 question first answered 20/03/2019 15:37:37 answering member 3349 label Biography information for Baroness Buscombe
	tabling member	567 label Biography information for Lord Hain

1086348

	registered interest
	date	11/03/2019
	answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept id	201
	answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	hansard heading	Citizens' Advice Bureaux: Closures
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many Citizens Advice Bureaux have closed in England since 2010.
	tabling member printed	Lord Hain
	uin	HL14385
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/03/2019 answer text <p>Now referred to as Local Citizens Advice, there have been 7 closures since 2010.</p> answering member printed Lord Henley question first answered 25/03/2019 11:56:23 answering member 2616 label Biography information for Lord Henley
	tabling member	567 label Biography information for Lord Hain

1086349

	registered interest
	date	11/03/2019
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Care Homes: Closures
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many care homes have closed in England since 2010.
	tabling member printed	Lord Hain
	uin	HL14386
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/03/2019 answer text <p>This data is not held in the format requested.</p> answering member printed Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford question first answered 25/03/2019 14:22:04 answering member 4019 label Biography information for Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
	tabling member	567 label Biography information for Lord Hain

1086346

	registered interest
	date	11/03/2019
	answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept id	10
	answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	hansard heading	Public Libraries: Closures
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many libraries have closed in England since 2010.
	tabling member printed	Lord Hain
	uin	HL14384
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2019 answer text <p>The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport monitors proposed changes to library service provision throughout England, but does not hold complete figures on the number of public libraries closed since 2010.</p> answering member printed Lord Ashton of Hyde question first answered 19/03/2019 15:26:55 answering member 4247 label Biography information for Lord Ashton of Hyde
	tabling member	567 label Biography information for Lord Hain