Question follow-through · 43533

Youth Services: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department is taking to ensure local authorities have sufficient funds for youth services.

answeredDepartment for Culture, Media and Sport

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Answering body
Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Tabled
2 Apr 2025
Target answer date
7 Apr 2025
Answer
17 Apr 2025 · 15 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 2 Apr 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department is taking to ensure local authorities have sufficient funds for youth services.

  2. 7 Apr 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 17 Apr 2025

    Answer published

    Local authorities hold the statutory duty to secure, so far as is reasonably practicable, sufficient provision of educational and recreational leisure-time activities for young people. Local Authorities fund youth services from their Local Government Sett...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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