To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills pursuant to the answer of 30 January 2007, Official Report, column 218-9W, on looked-after children, if he will commission research to identify how many crisis or emergency accommodation places (a) in (i) family-based and (ii) care homes and (b) with other providers there are in England. (118884)

We have no plans at present to commission any new research. We are already considering the issue of refuge and emergency accommodation through other work with the Children’s Society, Barnardo’s, and London Refuge and we will consider the need for further research after reviewing the outcome of that work.