Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what funds his Department has allocated to the troubled families programme for (a) 2016-17, (b) 2017-18, (c) 2018-19 and (d) 2019-20.
The budget for the Troubled Families Programme for 2017-18 is £239 million; for 2018-19 £180 million; and for 2019-20 £180 million. £171 million was made available for the programme in 2016/17. Additional funding was brought forward from the previous Spending Review. A total of £920 million has been committed to the programme over its lifetime of 2015 – 2020.