Question follow-through · 21142
Family Hubs
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to expand the reach of Start for Life services to (a) Poole and (b) other local authorities.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 18 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 6 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 6 Jan 2025 · 19 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading · 11 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: Amendment 1 · 8 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 143 · 8 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
18 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to expand the reach of Start for Life services to (a) Poole and (b) other local authorities.
6 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
6 Jan 2025
Answer published
The Prime Minister’s Plan for Change outlined that there will be investment to continue to build up the Family Hubs and Start for Life programme. In 2025/26, this investment will fund the 75 local authorities in England with high levels of deprivation tha...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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