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Children and Young Persons Bill [HL]

I thank the Minister for his reply to my question. I am afraid that I may not have been quite clear. Earlier in Committee, I referred to the report The Cost of Foster Care, produced in 2005 by BAAF and the Fostering Network. I apologise for this, but I am not clear whether the Minister said that he would write to me about that report’s figure of an additional £740 million needed each year to ensure a proper range of foster placements. If the Minister would be kind enough to show me in due course how the additional funding since then has met the needs laid out in that report, I would be most grateful.