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Special Educational Needs

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she plans to take steps to make the education, health and care plan application process more efficient.

answeredDepartment for Education

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Answering body
Department for Education
Tabled
29 Oct 2024
Target answer date
31 Oct 2024
Answer
5 Nov 2024 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 29 Oct 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she plans to take steps to make the education, health and care plan application process more efficient.

  2. 31 Oct 2024

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 5 Nov 2024

    Answer published

    For too long the education system has not met the needs of all children, particularly those with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), with parents struggling to get their children the support they need and deserve. This government’s ambition...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

Later records

Possible follow-up questions

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Strong linkSame MP, department and exact heading

Special Educational Needs

5 Nov 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to ensure that teachers have the (a) classroom support and (b) equipment needed to support pupils with SEND.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Pupil Premium

6 Nov 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of increasing the pupil premium for (a) primary and (b) secondary schools.

Strong linkSame MP, department and exact heading

Special Educational Needs

19 Nov 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that education, health and care plan assessments are (a) progressed and (b) issued promptly.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Children in Care

4 Dec 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of providing funding to ensure that the Lifelong Links programme can be extended to all children in care.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Schools: Gender Recognition

13 Feb 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when she plans to publish the draft guidance for gender questioning children in schools.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Special Educational Needs: Primary Education

10 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to help ensure that primary schools can fund their SEND provision without reallocating funding from other budget areas.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Special Educational Needs: Admissions

1 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure that all schools within a local authority accept children with Education, Health and Care Plans.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Free School Meals: Finance

7 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to ensure that funding allocated to schools for free school meals is not used for other purposes.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Free School Meals: Finance

7 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department plans to increase school funding to expand the provision of free school meals.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

GCE A-level: Physics

9 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that schools in deprived areas offer A-level physics courses to pupils.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

GCSE: Newbury

5 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what support her Department is providing to schools to ensure that at least 50 percent of children achieve passes in (a) maths and (b) English GCSEs in Newbury constituency.