Question follow-through · 39734

Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of extending the Adoption and special guardianship support fund beyond March 2025.

answeredDepartment for Education

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Answering body
Department for Education
Tabled
19 Mar 2025
Target answer date
24 Mar 2025
Answer
28 Mar 2025 · 9 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 19 Mar 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of extending the Adoption and special guardianship support fund beyond March 2025.

  2. 24 Mar 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 28 Mar 2025

    Answer published

    I refer the hon. Member for South Devon to the answer of 12 March 2025 to 35389.

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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