{"value":{"id":1757535,"askingMemberId":5330,"askingMember":null,"house":"Commons","memberHasInterest":false,"dateTabled":"2025-01-21T00:00:00","dateForAnswer":"2025-01-23T00:00:00","uin":"25586","questionText":"To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the cost to local authorities is of housing children in privately run children's homes.","answeringBodyId":60,"answeringBodyName":"Department for Education","isWithdrawn":false,"isNamedDay":false,"groupedQuestions":[],"answerIsHolding":false,"answerIsCorrection":false,"answeringMemberId":4698,"answeringMember":null,"correctingMemberId":null,"correctingMember":null,"dateAnswered":"2025-01-29T00:00:00","answerText":"<p>The department publishes data on local authority expenditure on looked after children<em>. </em>This data is published here: <a href=\"https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/la-and-school-expenditure#explore-data-and-files\" target=\"_blank\">https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/la-and-school-expenditure#explore-data-and-files</a>.</p><p>The department does not hold data on the cost to local authorities of housing children in privately run children’s homes. In total, local authorities spent £8.1 billion on looked after children in 2023/24, including £3.1 billion on residential care.</p>","originalAnswerText":"","comparableAnswerText":"","dateAnswerCorrected":null,"dateHoldingAnswer":null,"attachmentCount":0,"heading":"Children: Care Homes","attachments":[],"groupedQuestionsDates":[]},"links":[{"rel":"self","href":"/Questions/1757535","method":"GET"}]}