Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when she plans to publish the results of the national fostering stocktake.

The Fostering Stocktake is led by two independent reviewers, Sir Martin Narey and Mark Owers, who will report their findings to me by the end of the year. I will consider the evidence and recommendations they set out in the report, which will be made publicly available, and the department will publish a government response in Spring 2018.