Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 9 March 2018 to Question 130484, on Children: Refuges, whether his Department has undertaken any cross-departmental projects with the Department for Housing, Communities and Local Government relating to children living in refuges with a parent.

The department has not undertaken any cross-departmental projects on this issue with the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. Ministers and officials from both departments attend cross-government meetings where domestic abuse, and proposals to deal with it, are discussed.