Proceeding contribution from Sharon Hodgson (Labour) in the House of Commons on Wednesday, 2 March 2011. It occurred during Estimates day on Sure Start Children's Centres.
Sure Start Children's Centres
As I am sure the Secretary of State is aware, I am not shadow Chancellor; my right hon. Friend the Member for Morley and Outwood (Ed Balls) is. I will not be tempted to go outside my remit—[Interruption.] All I have said is that I would ring-fence the Sure Start element within the early intervention budget, as the leader of the Opposition said today. We have heard the Secretary of State say so many times that he has given councils enough money to maintain their current network of children's centres—that comes from a direct quote—so if they have enough money within the early intervention grant why should we be afraid to ring-fence the Sure Start element in it? It is not a spending commitment.
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- 2010-12
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- Finance Children, Schools and Families Committee Sure Start programme Education Committee Children's centres
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