The Department for Children, Schools and Families spent almost £60,000 developing a temporary website which has had less than 10,000 visitors since it was created and which is due to close next month.

The site - called "Build your PlaySpace" - cost £50,000 plus VAT to build - and was meant to encourage children to get involved with a consultation on play.

We'll have to wait to hear full details of the government's new play strategy - "Tough on play, tough on the causes of play" perhaps? The government will spend £235m in the next three years on helping children play.

Some 20 local authorities have been named "Play pathfinders".

We'd have thought £50,000 would buy a lot of children some nice sweets while they talked about play.

Get yourselves over to the Playspace consultation tool site here and pretend to be an 11-year-old to get their figures up.

Or read the whole written answer halfway down this page. ®

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