Question follow-through · 41242

Special Educational Needs: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact on local authorities' ability to meet special educational needs because of delays by local authorities in reviewing schools' funding requests for

answeredDepartment for Education

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Answering body: Department for Education
Tabled: 25 Mar 2025
Target answer date: 27 Mar 2025
Answer: 2 Apr 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

25 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact on local authorities' ability to meet special educational needs because of delays by local authorities in reviewing schools' funding requests for
27 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
2 Apr 2025
Answer published
Mainstream schools are funded through the formula set by their local authority. The funding formula is decided by each local authority in consultation with its schools and often uses factors such as low prior attainment and free school meals to give an es...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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8 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 2 April 2025 to Question 41244 on Special Educational Needs: Schools, what assessment she has made of trends in the level of local authorities not complying with that advice.

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Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

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Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

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Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Media: Curriculum

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Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

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Schools: Uniforms

30 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 29 April 2025 to Question 46274 on Schools: Uniforms, if she will take steps to provide further support for low income households to assist in the purchase of school uniforms.

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Nurseries: South West

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Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

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