Question follow-through · 42769
Special Educational Needs: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what her policy is on support for schools with budget shortfalls due to levels of high needs funding.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 31 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 2 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 8 Apr 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
31 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what her policy is on support for schools with budget shortfalls due to levels of high needs funding.
2 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
8 Apr 2025
Answer published
Through the national funding formula in the 2025/26 financial year, secondary schools are being allocated over £4 billion through formula factors that act as a proxy for their pupils’ special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) and other additional ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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