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Children and Young Persons Bill [HL]

I thank all those who spoke in this debate and the Minister for his reply. I shall look carefully at what he said. On the resourcing of the sufficiency and supply of foster placements, the Minister did not have an opportunity to respond; perhaps he would like to write to me on that. As I said, the 2005 report identified that an annual increase of more than £700 million a year would be necessary to make placements available. Will he look at that figure and consider why he feels that a significant greater sum does not need to be attached to the Bill to make the range of placements possible?