Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will review the adequacy of current statutory guidance on the sharing of live birth data with children's centres.

The Government has no plans to review the statutory guidance for children’s centres on the sharing of live birth data.

The Department for Education’s Sure Start children’s centres statutory guidance says that health services and local authorities should share information (such as live birth data and data on families with children under five who have recently moved into the area) with children’s centres on a regular basis.