Children’s Centres: Lincolnshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many children's centres there are in (a) Cleethorpes constituency, (b) Great Grimsby constituency, (c) North East Lincolnshire and (d) North Lincolnshire; how many are planned to be opened in each area; how much was spent on such centres in each of the last three years; and how much will be spent in the next 18 months. (222783)

There are currently (a) two Sure Start Children's Centres in Cleethorpes,(b) nine Centres in Great Grimsby, (c) 12 centres in North East Lincolnshire with a further two planned and (d) 11 centres in North Lincolnshire with a further one planned.

The two centres planned in North East Lincolnshire are currently at the initial public consultation stage with the local authority looking at sites in Old Clee, Humberston and New Waltham, which fall within the Cleethorpes constituency.

Details of expenditure and expenditure are given below. It is not possible to provide a break-down of these figures for an 18 month period as information is not collected using this timescale.

*Expenditure (£)Allocation*
	2004-06¹	2006-07	2007-08	2008-09	2009-10	2010-11	Total
North East Lincolnshire
Revenue	320,855	717,421	761,802	1,652,922	2,353,616	2,766,764	8,573,380
Capital	3,138,179	965,160	2,537,211	439,100	55,442	58,339	7,193,431
Total	3,459,034	1,682,581	3,299,013	2,092,022	2,409,058	2,825,103	15,766,811

North Lincolnshire
Revenue	357,856	775,491	751,530	1,562,893	2,109,512	2,464,154	8,021,436
Capital	477,655	1,288,217	1,234,449	248,712	520,405	307,738	4,077,176
Total	835,511	2,063,708	1,985,979	1,811,605	2,629,917	2,771,892	12,098,612
¹ 2004-06 was a two year spending period.

Volume 480: debated on Wednesday 8 October 2008