Question follow-through · 31695
Sure Start Programme: Greater Manchester
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many Sure Start centres have closed in (a) Salford and (b) Wigan since May 2010; and what the (i) name and (ii) postcode was of each centre.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 13 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 27 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 27 Feb 2025 · 14 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
13 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many Sure Start centres have closed in (a) Salford and (b) Wigan since May 2010; and what the (i) name and (ii) postcode was of each centre.
27 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
27 Feb 2025
Answer published
Data on Sure Start children’s centres is supplied by local authorities via the department’s Get Information about Schools (GIAS) database portal, which can be accessed here: https://www.get-information-schools.service.gov.uk/.Based on information supplied...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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