Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of planned funding for children's services in meeting future demand.

All future funding for local government will be agreed in the Spending Review that my right hon. Friend, the Prime Minister and my right hon. Friend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer have announced will take place this year. For the financial year 2019 to 2020, the local government finance settlement that was published in December provides local government with core spending power of £46.4 billion. The Autumn Budget also gave an additional £410 million for local authorities to spend on adult and children’s services.