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Dedicated Schools Grant: Surrey

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when she plans to consider Surrey County Council's request to extend the deadline for balancing the Dedicated Schools Grant by 2026-27.

answeredDepartment for Education

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Answering body
Department for Education
Tabled
30 May 2025
Target answer date
3 Jun 2025
Answer
9 Jun 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 30 May 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when she plans to consider Surrey County Council's request to extend the deadline for balancing the Dedicated Schools Grant by 2026-27.

  2. 3 Jun 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 9 Jun 2025

    Answer published

    The department is continuing to work with Surrey County Council to deliver their safety valve plan, including ongoing support from both financial and special educational needs and disabilities advisers. We regularly review the implementation of all safety...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

Later records

Possible follow-up questions

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Special Educational Needs: Surrey

4 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of the Safety Valve agreement on the provision of special educational needs support in Surrey.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Teachers: Foreign Nationals

4 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will undertake a review of the requirements non-UK nationals face when applying to train to become an educator.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Special Educational Needs: Surrey

9 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the potential implications for her policies of the finding from Surrey County Council’s 2024 Parents’ Voices Matter survey that 20% of children with special educationa

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Free School Meals: Universal Credit

10 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the delay in extending free school meals to all children in households receiving Universal Credit until September 2026 on the percentage of children in Wo

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Free School Meals: Woking

10 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the number of school-aged children in Woking who will become newly eligible for free school meals under the planned September 2026 Universal Credit extension.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Special Educational Needs: Surrey

18 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent discussions her Department has had with Surrey County Council on the findings of its 2024 Parents’ Voices Matter survey that 20% of children with special educational needs do not receive (a) an Educ

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Surrey County Council: Safety

2 Jul 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to support Surrey County Council improve collaborative safety planning.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Care Leavers: Housing

2 Jul 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to support Surrey County Council to deliver more housing for care leavers to improve Education, Employment and Training opportunities.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Children: Missing Persons

2 Jul 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to support Surrey County Council to improve support for children who go missing or are at risk of exploitation.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Pupils: Attendance

17 Jul 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of the changes to attendance and penalty notice regulations that came into effect on 19 August 2024 on school (a) staffing and (b) workload.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Pupils: Attendance

17 Jul 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department plans to provide additional funding to schools to help support the administrative workload resulting from the attendance and penalty notice regulations introduced in August 2024.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Special Educational Needs: Children

14 Jan 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what discussions she has had with the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government on special measures for local authorities not meeting statutory requirements for children with special educ