Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will link the funding of local authority children's services to levels of demand.

The department is working alongside the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government and the sector as part of the review of relative needs and resources to develop a robust, up to date approach to funding distribution for children's services, which will determine new baseline funding allocations for local authorities in England in 2020-21.