15. To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what progress has been made in delivering health-visiting and maternity services through children’s centres. (114163)

We now have over 1050 Sure Start Children’s Centres providing a range of multi-agency support services for families with young children. We would expect to see health-visiting and maternity services provided from children’s centres, or have strong links with centres. It is for Primary Care Trusts in partnership with local authorities to make decisions about which health services should be delivered through children’s centres, but we want to see a strong health presence particularly in centres in more disadvantaged areas, as well as PCT’s running children’s centres as the lead agency.

17. To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what progress has been made towards the target of delivering a children’s centre in every community by 2010. (114165)

I refer my hon. Friend to the reply given earlier today to my hon. Friend the Member for Burnley (Kitty Ussher).