Question follow-through · 50954
Pre-school Education: Special Educational Needs
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to increase the number of local authority funded early years places for children with SEND under the age of 9 months.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 8 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 12 May 2025
- Answer
- 29 May 2025 · 21 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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Recorded timeline
8 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to increase the number of local authority funded early years places for children with SEND under the age of 9 months.
12 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
29 May 2025
Answer published
The department does not fund places for children under the age of nine months. This is because the earliest a child can take up their government-funded place is the term after a child turns nine months old.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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