Urgent question on Wednesday, 5 June 2019, in the House of Commons, led by Lucy Powell. The answering member was Anne Milton.

Sure Start: IFS Report

Urgent question on the Institute for Fiscal Studies report on Sure Start children's centres.

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Type: Parliamentary proceeding
Reference: 661 cc159-168
Session: 2017-19
Department: Department for Education
Chamber / Committee: House of Commons chamber
Proceeding contributions: Lucy Powell | 661 c160 (Link to this contribution)
(Urgent question): Thank you, Mr Speaker, for granting this urgent question. To ask the Secretary...; Anne Milton | 661 c160 (Link to this contribution)
The Government very much welcome the recent report by the Institute for Fiscal Studies on the eff...; Lucy Powell | 661 cc160-1 (Link to this contribution)
I thank the Minister for her reply, but I think it bears little relation to reality.
Sure S...; Anne Milton | 661 c161 (Link to this contribution)
I pay tribute to the hon. Lady. This has been a passion of hers and she has worked very hard acro...; Robert Halfon | 661 c161 (Link to this contribution)
I congratulate the hon. Member for Manchester Central (Lucy Powell), a member of the Education Co...; Anne Milton | 661 c161 (Link to this contribution)
I thank my right hon. Friend for his comments and congratulate Essex on its work on its family hu...; Tracy Brabin | 661 c162 (Link to this contribution)
Thank you for granting this urgent question, Mr Speaker, and I thank my hon. Friend the Member fo...; Anne Milton | 661 c162 (Link to this contribution)
I thank the hon. Lady for her comments. Being fixed in a dogmatic way on Sure Start children’s ce...; Lucy Allan | 661 c162 (Link to this contribution)
I, too, pay tribute to the hon. Member for Manchester Central (Lucy Powell) for her excellent and...; Anne Milton | 661 c162 (Link to this contribution)
It is important that families who can stay safely together—the critical word is “safely”—are supp...; Thelma Walker | 661 c163 (Link to this contribution)
I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Manchester Central (Lucy Powell) on securing this re...; Anne Milton | 661 c163 (Link to this contribution)
The hon. Lady has a wealth of experience in this field. I can guarantee that our interventions wi...; Tim Farron | 661 c163 (Link to this contribution)
I congratulate the hon. Member for Manchester Central (Lucy Powell) on raising this incredibly im...; Anne Milton | 661 c163 (Link to this contribution)
I point out to the hon. Gentleman that correlation and causation are not the same thing. The IFS ...; Sharon Hodgson | 661 c163 (Link to this contribution)
On the eve of the election in 2010, David Cameron, who became Prime Minister, promised that; Anne Milton | 661 c164 (Link to this contribution)
The hon. Lady has always been a champion of early years in all the work that she has done. It is ...; Helen Goodman | 661 c164 (Link to this contribution)
I invite the Minister to come to my constituency and see the communities that were being served b...; Anne Milton | 661 c164 (Link to this contribution)
I am going to sound very repetitive, but this needs to be evidence-based. Sure Start centres—[Int...; Barry Sheerman | 661 c164 (Link to this contribution)
I have some sympathy for the Minister, only because the evidence she is not looking at is the evi...; Anne Milton | 661 c164 (Link to this contribution)
The hon. Gentleman is a doughty champion of all things to do with education. As the Minister resp...; Ellie Reeves | 661 c165 (Link to this contribution)
When I held a summit on parental loneliness in my constituency, the local children’s centres made...; Anne Milton | 661 c165 (Link to this contribution)
I can only refer the hon. Lady to the report that states that we are the highest-spending nation ...; John Bercow | 661 c165 (Link to this contribution)
Order.; Anne Milton | 661 c165 (Link to this contribution)
We need a variety of models of care and we will be led by the evidence.; Karin Smyth | 661 c165 (Link to this contribution)
This is becoming a very frustrating exchange. On the one hand, the Minister, who I respect greatl...; Anne Milton | 661 c165 (Link to this contribution)
I agree 100% with the hon. Lady. In some ways, these discussions should be more consensual given ...; Baroness Debbonaire | 661 c166 (Link to this contribution)
Following on from my hon. Friend the Member for Bristol South (Karin Smyth), I visited a lot of S...; Anne Milton | 661 c166 (Link to this contribution)
I congratulate the hon. Lady on her work at the domestic violence centre, and she is absolutely r...; Roberta Blackman-Woods | 661 c166 (Link to this contribution)
Since 2012, all five Sure Start centres in my constituency, serving the most disadvantaged areas,...; Anne Milton | 661 c166 (Link to this contribution)
I thank the hon. Lady for her invitation. I am not the responsible Minister for this policy area,...; Paula Sherriff | 661 c166 (Link to this contribution)
I remember a conversation with a constituent who said her Sure Start centre literally saved her l...; Anne Milton | 661 c167 (Link to this contribution)
The right hon. Lady raises an important issue—she is the first to have specifically raised it—and...; John Bercow | 661 c167 (Link to this contribution)
With typical generosity, the Minister has elevated the hon. Member for Dewsbury (Paula Sherriff) ...; David Drew | 661 c167 (Link to this contribution)
One of the great successes of Sure Start was that it reached out to rural areas. We saw that part...; Anne Milton | 661 c167 (Link to this contribution)
Perhaps, Mr Speaker, that was because I believe that all women should be Privy Counsellors. They ...; Vicky Foxcroft | 661 c167 (Link to this contribution)
Has the Minister any plans to look into the impact of centres providing early-years support on re...; Anne Milton | 661 c168 (Link to this contribution)
The hon. Lady rightly raises the issue of youth violence, which is behind much of the work done b...; Ruth Cadbury | 661 c168 (Link to this contribution)
I was Hounslow’s Cabinet lead for children and young people when the Tories, who were in oppositi...; Anne Milton | 661 c168 (Link to this contribution)
No. Let me remind the hon. Lady that the report makes it clear that we are one of the highest spe...; Anneliese Dodds | 661 c168 (Link to this contribution)
With all due respect to the Minister, she has misrepresented the research, which showed that univ...; Anne Milton | 661 c168 (Link to this contribution)
The hon. Lady refers to universal, multi-functional services, and to health visitors. There are f...
Subjects: Children Disadvantaged Cost effectiveness Finance Children's centres
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Sure Start: IFS Report

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