Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment his Department has made of the number of professional social work placements, excluding the Step-Up and Frontline programmes, required in 2014-15; and how many places it expects to be provided by (a) local authorities, (b) third sector organisations and (iii) other organisations.

I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave on 16 October 2014 to Question 209550.