Written Question·Department for Culture, Media and Sport·UIN 46238

Youth Centres: Closures

Tabled: 17 April 2025
Answered: 29 April 2025

Question

Chris Bloore

LabourRedditch

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many youth centres were closed in England between 2010 and 2024.

Answer

Stephanie Peacock
DCMS does not hold the data requested. Local Authorities have a statutory duty to ‘secure, so far as is reasonably practicable, sufficient provision of educational and recreational leisure-time activities for young people’. This is funded from the Local G...

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