Question follow-through · 18331
Special Educational Needs: Rural Areas
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if her Department will take steps to ensure that additional funding for Special Educational Needs and Disabilities in mainstream schools is equitably distributed in rural areas.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 5 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 9 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 7 Jan 2025 · 33 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
5 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if her Department will take steps to ensure that additional funding for Special Educational Needs and Disabilities in mainstream schools is equitably distributed in rural areas.
9 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
7 Jan 2025
Answer published
Local authorities are responsible for allocating additional funding from their high needs budgets to mainstream schools for their pupils with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND). The department is providing an increase of almost £1 billion f...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Teachers: Rural Areas
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Teachers: Disciplinary Proceedings
7 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that teachers have access to accompaniment by professionally trained companions during (a) disciplinary and (b) grievance hearings.
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PE and Sport Premium: Gloucestershire
19 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment her Department has made of the adequacy of the allocation of funding for (a) PE and (b) Sports Premium in Gloucestershire.
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