Question follow-through · 14414
Children: Social Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much was spent from the public purse on private sector provision of children’s social care in each year since 2010.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 14 Nov 2024
- Target answer date
- 18 Nov 2024
- Answer
- 22 Nov 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
14 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much was spent from the public purse on private sector provision of children’s social care in each year since 2010.
18 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
22 Nov 2024
Answer published
The department publishes data on local authority spend on looked after children. The latest data is available here: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/la-and-school-expenditure#explore-data-and-files.The attached table set...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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