Question follow-through · 54697
Sure Start Programme
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will take steps to increase levels of Sure Start provision in the most disadvantaged areas.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 30 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 3 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 25 Jun 2025 · 26 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
30 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will take steps to increase levels of Sure Start provision in the most disadvantaged areas.
3 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
25 Jun 2025
Answer published
The government’s Plan for Change sets out a commitment to give every child the best start in life. Progress on this commitment will be measured by assessing whether 75% of five-year-olds are reaching a good level of development in the Early Years Foundati...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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