Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many Sure Start children's centres have been opened in each of the last five years.

As at 31 December 2016 there were 3,251 main children’s centres and sites open to families and children providing children's centre services as part of a network. Children’s centre records are maintained by local authorities and are made publicly available via the Department’s “EduBase portal” at: http://www.education.gov.uk/edubase/home.xhtml

Based on information supplied by local authorities, eight children’s centres have opened since April 2010[1].

[1] This figure for centres opened since 2010 does not include children’s centres that local authorities have reported closed and subsequently reopened. It is not possible to give a year on year breakdown.