Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to his oral contribution of 28 March 2022 on the introduction of family hubs in half of England's local authorities, what criteria he has or plans to use to determine which local authorities will receive a family hub; and if he will place a copy of the list of those local authorities that will receive a family hub in the Library.

In the 2021 Autumn Budget, the government announced a further £82 million to create a network of family hubs. This is part of a wider £300 million package to transform services for parents, carers, babies, and children in half of council areas across England.

The Department for Education and Department for Health and Social Care are working together to determine the best approach for selecting local authorities and distributing the funding. The department will set out more detail in due course.

The department will place in the libraries of both Houses a copy of the list of those local authorities eligible to receive funding for family hubs from the Spending Review 2021 package.