Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to Fostering in England 2016 to 2017: main findings, published by Ofsted on 29 March 2018, if he will publish the number of (a) foster places, (b) foster placements, and (c) placements not available in each local authority area for which figures were collected between 1 April 2016 and 31 March 2017.

This is a matter for her Majesty’s Chief Inspector, Amanda Spielman. I have asked her to write to the hon. Member for Coventry South and a copy of her reply will be placed in the Libraries of both Houses.