Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how his Department works with the (a) Department for Work and Pensions, (b) Ministry of Justice, (c) Home Office, (d) Department for Education and (e) Department of Health to deliver the troubled families programme.

Governance structures are in place to ensure my officials work closely with those in other Government departments, including, but not limited to, the five highlighted here. This is underpinned by extensive informal contact. Officials work together to identify and agree actions to support the delivery of the Troubled Families Programme. This also ensures that other policy areas can share in the learning from the Troubled Families Programme.

In addition, I am in contact with my opposite numbers in other departments, including the Secretary of State for Education, through our attendance at the Social Reform (Home Affairs) sub-Committee and a number of Inter-Ministerial Groups which oversee policy areas relevant to the programme, such as on mental health, gangs, and violence against women and girls.