diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 7ef6553f8fe45..2e660a87063af 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -569,6 +569,10 @@ The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](http://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/).
 
 - Removed calls to `profile("model_forward")` in favor of profiling `training_step` ([#12032](https://github.com/PyTorchLightning/pytorch-lightning/pull/12032))
 
+
+- Removed `get_mp_spawn_kwargs` from `DDPSpawnStrategy` and `TPUSpawnStrategy` in favor of configuration in the `_SpawnLauncher` ([#11966](https://github.com/PyTorchLightning/pytorch-lightning/pull/11966))
+
+
 ### Fixed
 
 - Fixed an issue where `HorovodStrategy.teardown()` did not complete gracefully if an exception was thrown during callback setup [#11752](https://github.com/PyTorchLightning/pytorch-lightning/pull/11752)
diff --git a/pytorch_lightning/strategies/ddp_spawn.py b/pytorch_lightning/strategies/ddp_spawn.py
index 0eb4b68651aa8..d38d6faf6886a 100644
--- a/pytorch_lightning/strategies/ddp_spawn.py
+++ b/pytorch_lightning/strategies/ddp_spawn.py
@@ -136,9 +136,6 @@ def set_world_ranks(self, process_idx: int = 0) -> None:
         self.cluster_environment.set_world_size(self.num_nodes * self.num_processes)
         rank_zero_only.rank = self.cluster_environment.global_rank()
 
-    def get_mp_spawn_kwargs(self, trainer: Optional["pl.Trainer"] = None) -> Dict[str, Any]:
-        return {"nprocs": self.num_processes}
-
     def _worker_setup(self, process_idx: int):
         reset_seed()
         self.set_world_ranks(process_idx)
diff --git a/pytorch_lightning/strategies/launchers/spawn.py b/pytorch_lightning/strategies/launchers/spawn.py
index 594ef3146fcbb..3b393f4a0c1b1 100644
--- a/pytorch_lightning/strategies/launchers/spawn.py
+++ b/pytorch_lightning/strategies/launchers/spawn.py
@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ class _SpawnLauncher(_Launcher):
 
     def __init__(self, strategy: Strategy) -> None:
         self._strategy = strategy
+        self._start_method = "spawn"
 
     def launch(self, function: Callable, *args: Any, trainer: Optional["pl.Trainer"] = None, **kwargs: Any) -> Any:
         """Spawns processes that run the given function in parallel.
@@ -65,12 +66,13 @@ def launch(self, function: Callable, *args: Any, trainer: Optional["pl.Trainer"]
         # This needs to be done in the main process here before spawning to ensure each rank will connect
         # through the same port
         os.environ["MASTER_PORT"] = str(self._strategy.cluster_environment.main_port)
-        context = mp.get_context("spawn")
+        context = mp.get_context(self._start_method)
         return_queue = context.SimpleQueue()
         mp.spawn(
             self._wrapping_function,
             args=(trainer, function, args, kwargs, return_queue),
             nprocs=self._strategy.num_processes,
+            start_method=self._start_method,
         )
         spawn_output = return_queue.get()
         if trainer is None:
diff --git a/pytorch_lightning/strategies/launchers/xla_spawn.py b/pytorch_lightning/strategies/launchers/xla_spawn.py
index 50746a463cbed..71acfc1011582 100644
--- a/pytorch_lightning/strategies/launchers/xla_spawn.py
+++ b/pytorch_lightning/strategies/launchers/xla_spawn.py
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 import os
 import time
 from multiprocessing.queues import SimpleQueue
-from typing import Any, Callable, Optional
+from typing import Any, Callable, Optional, TYPE_CHECKING
 
 import torch.multiprocessing as mp
 
@@ -31,6 +31,9 @@
 else:
     xm, xmp, MpDeviceLoader, rendezvous = [None] * 4
 
+if TYPE_CHECKING:
+    from pytorch_lightning.strategies import Strategy
+
 
 class _XLASpawnLauncher(_SpawnLauncher):
     r"""Spawns processes that run a given function in parallel on XLA supported hardware, and joins them all at the end.
@@ -42,8 +45,15 @@ class _XLASpawnLauncher(_SpawnLauncher):
     Note:
         - This launcher requires all objects to be pickleable.
         - It is important that the entry point to the program/script is guarded by ``if __name__ == "__main__"``.
+
+    Args:
+        strategy: A reference to the strategy that is used together with this launcher
     """
 
+    def __init__(self, strategy: "Strategy") -> None:
+        super().__init__(strategy)
+        self._start_method = "fork"
+
     def launch(self, function: Callable, *args: Any, trainer: Optional["pl.Trainer"] = None, **kwargs: Any) -> Any:
         """Spawns processes that run the given function in parallel.
 
@@ -57,12 +67,13 @@ def launch(self, function: Callable, *args: Any, trainer: Optional["pl.Trainer"]
                 a selected set of attributes get restored in the main process after processes join.
             **kwargs: Optional keyword arguments to be passed to the given function.
         """
-        context = mp.get_context(self._strategy.start_method or "fork")
+        context = mp.get_context(self._start_method)
         return_queue = context.SimpleQueue()
         xmp.spawn(
             self._wrapping_function,
             args=(trainer, function, args, kwargs, return_queue),
-            **self._strategy.get_mp_spawn_kwargs()
+            nprocs=len(self._strategy.parallel_devices),
+            start_method=self._start_method,
         )
         spawn_output = return_queue.get()
         if trainer is None:
diff --git a/pytorch_lightning/strategies/tpu_spawn.py b/pytorch_lightning/strategies/tpu_spawn.py
index 1606f3bb4478b..c8ae00c366ecc 100644
--- a/pytorch_lightning/strategies/tpu_spawn.py
+++ b/pytorch_lightning/strategies/tpu_spawn.py
@@ -213,12 +213,6 @@ def reduce(self, output, group: Optional[Any] = None, reduce_op: Optional[Union[
 
         return output
 
-    def get_mp_spawn_kwargs(self, trainer: Optional["pl.Trainer"] = None) -> Dict[str, Any]:
-        return {
-            "nprocs": len(self.parallel_devices),
-            "start_method": self.start_method,
-        }
-
     def _worker_setup(self, process_idx: int):
         reset_seed()
         self.tpu_local_core_rank = xm.get_local_ordinal()