Youth Services: Finance
Education
Steve Rotheram (Liverpool, Walton, Labour)
To ask the Secretary of State for Education what assessment he has made of the level of reductions in funding for youth services in (a) Liverpool, Walton constituency, (b) Merseyside and (c) England.
Tim Loughton (Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Education; East Worthing and Shoreham, Conservative)
holding answer
The Department for Education's funding for youth services for 2011-12 and beyond is included in the Early Intervention Grant (EIG). The EIG allocation for Liverpool local authority has changed from £31.06 million in 2010-11 to £27.18 million in 2011-12, a reduction of around 12.5%.
Money for youth services is not ring-fenced within the EIG. Decisions on funding levels for youth services are for local authorities. It is for local authorities to assess and be accountable for them.