Mrs. Maria Miller:
To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how much funding has been allocated to rolling-out free bookshop book packs as announced in Support for All: the Families and Relationships Green Paper to date. [318386]
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Dawn Primarolo:
Funding for the Booktrust programme as referred to in Support for All: the Families and Relationships Green Paper is £18 million in 2009-11. This programme continues to provide free book packs to families with young children at six to nine months, 18 months and three years, each giving age-appropriate children's books and advice to parents and carers to promote shared reading, storytelling and rhymes in the home.
Sure Start Programme
Mrs. Maria Miller:
To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many Sure Start children's centres there are in each (a) parliamentary constituency, (b) region and (c) local authority area. [325026]
Dawn Primarolo:
Table 1 gives the numbers of designated Sure Start children's centres in each Government office region and table 2 the numbers of children's centres in each local authority area, at the end of February 2010.
The numbers of children's centres in each constituency are not collected centrally.
Table 1: Designated Sure Start children ' s centres
Region
Number
East Midlands
306
East of England
396
London
543
North East
187
North West
459
South East
548
South West
313
West Midlands
374
Yorks and Humber
378
Table 2: Designated Sure Start children ' s centres
