Question follow-through · 25586
Children: Care Homes
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the cost to local authorities is of housing children in privately run children's homes.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 21 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 23 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 29 Jan 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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Recorded timeline
21 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the cost to local authorities is of housing children in privately run children's homes.
23 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
29 Jan 2025
Answer published
The department publishes data on local authority expenditure on looked after children. This data is published here: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/la-and-school-expenditure#explore-data-and-files.The department does no...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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