Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what her planned timetable is for the publication of a Government response to the report by the Competition and Markets Authority entitled Children’s social care market study: final report, published on 10 March 2022.

The department is rapidly working on a detailed implementation strategy in response to the three independent reviews into children’s social care published in 2022. A response will be published early this year.