HC Deb 19 November 2001 vol 375 cc49-50W
Mr. Bercow

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if she will make a statement on the cost of the sure start programmes for parents and children in deprived areas in the last 12 months. [14218]

Yvette Cooper

Expenditure on sure start was £7 million in 1999–2000 as set out in the Department for Education and Employment Departmental Report 2001–04, published in March 2001.