Question follow-through · 44782
Special Educational Needs: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to help reduce inequalities in SEND funding between local authorities.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 7 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 22 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 28 Apr 2025 · 21 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
7 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to help reduce inequalities in SEND funding between local authorities.
22 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
28 Apr 2025
Answer published
This government’s ambition is that all children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) receive the right support to succeed in their education and as they move into adult life. Following the Autumn Budget 2024, the departm...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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