Youth Centres: Closures
Commons · Question 46238 · Tabled 17 Apr 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport · Official record
Answered 29 Apr 2025
Question
Asked by Chris Bloore
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many youth centres were closed in England between 2010 and 2024.
Answer
Answered by Stephanie Peacock, 29 Apr 2025
DCMS does not hold the data requested. Local Authorities have a statutory duty to ‘secure, so far as is reasonably practicable, sufficient provision of educational and recreational leisure-time activities for young people’. This is funded from the Local G...