Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what progress her Department has made on ensuring that children's centres have access to live birth data for their catchment areas.

Health services and local authorities should share live birth data with children’s centres on a regular basis.

Birth registration data is already publicly available, and local areas should use partnership agreements or protocols to make data sharing as effective as possible.

The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health is working with 4Children to produce an e-learning package on information-sharing for early years and health professionals.