Monica Harding MP: written questions
4 Jul 2024–3 Jul 2025
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Written questions
Special Educational Needs: FinanceDepartment for EducationTabled 21 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 15583More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, for which local authorities her Department has provided (a) support and (b) intervention for safety valve agreements since 2019.
Answer: The department has made Safety Valve agreements with 38 local authorities. These are: Bath and North East Somerset, Barnsley, Bexley, Blackpool, Bolton, Bracknell Forest, Bristol, Bury, Cambridgeshire, Croydon, Darlington, Devon, Dorset, Hammersmith and F...
Answered 27 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordSpecial Educational Needs: FinanceDepartment for EducationTabled 21 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 15582More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what formula her Department is using to calculate Special Educational Needs and Disability high needs funding allocations for local authorities next year.
Answer: The high needs national funding formula will be used to allocate high needs funding to local authorities in the 2025/26 financial year. Provisional 2025/26 national funding formula allocations for local authorities have now been published and can be found...
Answered 28 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordSpecial Educational Needs: SurreyDepartment for EducationTabled 13 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 14276More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the impact of her Department's Safety Valve Agreement with Surrey County Council on (a) funding per EHCP in Surrey and (b) quality of SEND provision in Surrey.
Answer: The Safety Valve programme helps local authorities provide an improved special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) service by maximising the impact of their high needs budget and promoting a more stable and effective system for children and young pe...
Answered 18 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordSpecial Educational NeedsDepartment for EducationTabled 13 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 14275More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department is taking steps to (a) ensure that deficit reduction measures taken by local authorities as part of their safety valve agreements do not reduce the (i) level and (ii) quality of support f
Answer: The Safety Valve programme helps local authorities provide an improved special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) service by maximising the impact of their high needs budget and promoting a more stable and effective system for children and young pe...
Answered 18 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordSpecial Educational Needs: FinanceDepartment for EducationTabled 13 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 14227More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if her Department will take steps to ensure the uplift for SEND funding announced in the Autumn Budget 2024 is allocated by local authorities to families assessed as being in the most urgent need; what steps he
Answer: This government’s ambition is that all children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) or in alternative provision receive the right support to succeed in their education and as they move into adult life. The department is...
Answered 18 Nov 2024
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