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Pupil Referral Units: Per Capita Costs

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of variations in per pupil funding for places in pupil referral units on pupils' educational outcomes.

answeredDepartment for Education

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Answering body
Department for Education
Tabled
24 Jan 2025
Target answer date
29 Jan 2025
Answer
29 Jan 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 24 Jan 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of variations in per pupil funding for places in pupil referral units on pupils' educational outcomes.

  2. 29 Jan 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 29 Jan 2025

    Answer published

    Most funding for pupil referral units, and other alternative provision (AP), comes from local authorities’ high needs budgets, Following the Autumn Budget 2024, the department is providing an increase of £1 billion for high needs budgets in England in the...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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