Question follow-through · 49910
Special Educational Needs
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the average cost per pupil was to construct a special educational needs school in the last five years.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 2 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 7 May 2025
- Answer
- 13 May 2025 · 11 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
2 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the average cost per pupil was to construct a special educational needs school in the last five years.
7 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
13 May 2025
Answer published
New school buildings are delivered by the department, local authorities, and other bodies.The average cost of building a special educational needs school can be found on pages 25-29 in the national cost benchmarking study published at: https://documents.h...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Schools: Staff
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Department for Education: Equality
14 Jul 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many FTE equivalent staff in (a) their Department and (b) each Arm's Length Body it sponsors are dedicated to fulfilment of the Public Sector Equality Duty (PSED); what the (i) annual employment and (ii) to
Department for Education: Pay
14 Jul 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, for each Arm's Length Body (ALB) their Department sponsors, (a) how many people are employed in the following bands of total earnings, or nearest equivalent, (i) under £25,000, (ii) £ 25,001 to £ 35,000, (iii)