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Question follow-through · 40395

Further Education: Special Educational Needs

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department has taken to support the SEND-specialist Further Education sector; and what central capital grants have been provided to that sector during the last ten years.

answeredDepartment for Education

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Answering body
Department for Education
Tabled
21 Mar 2025
Target answer date
26 Mar 2025
Answer
11 Apr 2025 · 21 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 21 Mar 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department has taken to support the SEND-specialist Further Education sector; and what central capital grants have been provided to that sector during the last ten years.

  2. 26 Mar 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 11 Apr 2025

    Answer published

    The department has now published allocations for £740 million of high needs capital funding for the 2025/26 financial year. Of this funding, Birmingham has been allocated a total of just under £15 million which can be used to deliver new places in mainstr...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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