Question follow-through · 66395
Family Hubs: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Hubs and Start for Life Programme 2022, what criteria was used to allocate funding to establish new Family Hubs.
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 9 Jul 2025
- Target answer date
- 16 Jul 2025
- Answer
- 21 Jul 2025 · 12 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
9 Jul 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Hubs and Start for Life Programme 2022, what criteria was used to allocate funding to establish new Family Hubs.
16 Jul 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
21 Jul 2025
Answer published
Local authorities were pre-selected in rank order using Income Deprivation Affecting Children Indices Average Rank, ensuring a minimum of 25% of local authorities from each Office for National Statistics rural urban classification have been pre-selected f...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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