Question follow-through · 29822
Special Educational Needs: Transport
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of providing additional funding to local authorities for SEND transport for the 2025-26 financial year.
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 6 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 12 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 12 Feb 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
6 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of providing additional funding to local authorities for SEND transport for the 2025-26 financial year.
12 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
12 Feb 2025
Answer published
Most central government funding for home-to-school travel is provided through the local government finance settlement administered by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. This government recognises the challenges local authorities ar...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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