Question follow-through · 447
Special Educational Needs: Tribunals
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps she plans to take to reduce waiting times for appeals through special educational needs and disability tribunal hearings.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Ministry of Justice
- Tabled
- 17 Jul 2024
- Target answer date
- 22 Jul 2024
- Answer
- 23 Jul 2024 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
17 Jul 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps she plans to take to reduce waiting times for appeals through special educational needs and disability tribunal hearings.
22 Jul 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
23 Jul 2024
Answer published
Although the First-tier Tribunal (SEND) has responded well to the significant increase in appeals it has experienced in recent years, we acknowledge that more needs to be done to reduce the time parents and young people have to wait to have their appeals ...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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