Written questions

Youth Services: Finance

Commons · Question 43533 · Tabled 2 Apr 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport · Official record

Answered 17 Apr 2025

Question

Asked by Ian Byrne

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department is taking to ensure local authorities have sufficient funds for youth services.

Answer

Answered by Stephanie Peacock, 17 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...