Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 18 January 2018 to Question 122517 on children: social services, whether the six local authorities named in that answer are still exempt from statutory guidance.

I refer the hon. Member for South Shields to the answer I gave on 18 January 2018 to Question 122517 where six local authorities named in were issued non-time-limited directions in January 2015.