Question follow-through · 37422
Special Educational Needs: First-tier Tribunal
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what funding her Department has provided to local authorities for Special Educational Needs and Disability First-tier Tribunal hearings in the past 12 months.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 11 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 13 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 19 Mar 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
11 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what funding her Department has provided to local authorities for Special Educational Needs and Disability First-tier Tribunal hearings in the past 12 months.
13 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
19 Mar 2025
Answer published
The department does not fund local authorities to cover the costs associated with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) first-tier tribunal hearings. Local authorities fund their legal costs from their operational budgets.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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