Question follow-through · 35872

Special Educational Needs: Devon

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the adequacy of the availability of SEND places in schools in Devon.

answeredDepartment for Education

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Answering body
Department for Education
Tabled
5 Mar 2025
Target answer date
7 Mar 2025
Answer
13 Mar 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 5 Mar 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the adequacy of the availability of SEND places in schools in Devon.

  2. 7 Mar 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 13 Mar 2025

    Answer published

    Following the Autumn Budget 2024, the department is providing an increase of £1 billion for high needs budgets in England in the 2025/26 financial year, bringing total high needs funding for children and young people with complex special educational needs...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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