Written questions

Youth Services: Local Government

Commons · Question 41545 · Tabled 26 Mar 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport · Official record

Answered 3 Apr 2025

Question

Asked by Martin Wrigley

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will take steps to ensure that local authorities are carrying out their statutory duty to deliver youth services.

Answer

Answered by Stephanie Peacock, 3 Apr 2025

Local authorities hold the statutory duty to secure, so far as is reasonably practicable, sufficient provision of educational and recreational leisure-time activities for young people. Local Authorities fund youth services from their Local Government Sett...