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Pupil Referral Units: Staffordshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that there is adequate capacity in pupil referral units in (a) Cannock Chase constituency and (b) Staffordshire.

answeredDepartment for Education

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Answering body
Department for Education
Tabled
23 Jan 2025
Target answer date
29 Jan 2025
Answer
30 Jan 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 23 Jan 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that there is adequate capacity in pupil referral units in (a) Cannock Chase constituency and (b) Staffordshire.

  2. 29 Jan 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 30 Jan 2025

    Answer published

    Local authorities are responsible for providing enough school places for their area. The department provides capital funding through the basic need grant to secure mainstream school places and through the high needs provision capital allocations to invest...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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