Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what funding was available to Sure Start (a) in each year and (b) adjusted for inflation.

Annual expenditure figures for the Sure Start programme are published in the following reports:

• Department for Education and Skills departmental report 2007, found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/department-for-education-and-skills-departmental-report-2007. This report includes an annual breakdown of Sure Start expenditure for the period between 1998/99 and 2005/06.
• Department for Children, Schools and Families resource accounts 2009 to 2010, found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/department-for-children-schools-and-families-resource-accounts-2009-to-2010. This report includes an annual breakdown of Sure Start expenditure for the period between 2004/05 and 2009/10.
• Department for Education Annual Report and Accounts 2010-11, found here: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/193544/HC_983.pdf. This report includes an annual breakdown of Sure Start expenditure in 2010/11 and 2009/10.

Since April 2010, local authorities have reported expenditure on Sure Start children’s centres through annual section 251 returns. Annual expenditure figures on Sure Start children’s centres for the period between 2010/11 and 2023/24 are published at: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-local-authority-school-finance-data#local-authority-and-school-finance and https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/la-and-school-expenditure.

The department does not maintain records of annual Sure Start expenditure figures adjusted for inflation.