Question follow-through · 36324
Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund: Inflation
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of linking the Adoption Support Fund annual funding cap to inflation.
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 6 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 11 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 20 Mar 2025 · 14 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
6 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of linking the Adoption Support Fund annual funding cap to inflation.
11 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
20 Mar 2025
Answer published
The department will shortly be finalising business planning decisions on the allocation of the department’s budget for the next financial year. All decisions regarding the future of the adoption and special guardianship support fund (ASGSF), including iss...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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