Question follow-through · 4493

Local Government Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the adequacy of the funding of the (a) High Needs Block of the Dedicated Schools Grant and (b) servicing of the debt incurred by local authorities.

answeredDepartment for Education

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Answering body: Department for Education
Tabled: 5 Sept 2024
Target answer date: 12 Sept 2024
Answer: 12 Sept 2024 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

5 Sept 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the adequacy of the funding of the (a) High Needs Block of the Dedicated Schools Grant and (b) servicing of the debt incurred by local authorities.
12 Sept 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
12 Sept 2024
Answer published
The government is acutely aware not only of the financial pressures that local authorities are facing because of the increasing cost of supporting young people with complex needs, but also the pressures that the government as a whole is facing because of ...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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