Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what progress he has made on setting the levels of funding for children's contact centres; and if he will make a statement.

The Government values the work of child contact centres and acknowledges the important role they play in providing neutral places for contact between children and their family members.

Until April this year, the Ministry of Justice provided small value grants, via Cafcass, to support the running of child contact centres. The Ministry of Justice is in the final stages of agreeing the funding arrangements for this year’s grants and information will be made publicly available once this process is complete. Decisions on allocations of grant funding to induvial centres will be determined once the new administration arrangements are in place.