Question follow-through · 51193

Special Educational Needs: Foreign Nationals

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of SEND support recipients were children of non-UK nationals in the latest year for which data is available.

answeredDepartment for Education

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Answering body
Department for Education
Tabled
9 May 2025
Target answer date
13 May 2025
Answer
19 May 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 9 May 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of SEND support recipients were children of non-UK nationals in the latest year for which data is available.

  2. 13 May 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 19 May 2025

    Answer published

    The department does not hold information on the nationality of parents of children with special educational needs.

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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