Question follow-through · 57964
Learning Disability
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans her Department has to allocate new funding to help schools improve support for pupils with learning disabilities.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 5 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 9 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 13 Jun 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Education and skills
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- Dyslexia: Rural Areas · 20 Jun 2025
- Transport: Rural Areas · 20 Jun 2025
- Transport: Schools and Further Education · 20 Jun 2025
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Recorded timeline
5 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans her Department has to allocate new funding to help schools improve support for pupils with learning disabilities.
9 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
13 Jun 2025
Answer published
The department recognises the essential role that small, rural schools play in their communities. The national funding formula (NFF) accounts for the particular challenges, including those of providing for pupils with special educational needs (SEN), face...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Dyslexia: West Dorset
20 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment her Department has made of the adequacy of levels of access to dyslexia-specific teaching support and diagnostic services in West Dorset.
Dyslexia: Rural Areas
20 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to improve (a) early identification and (b) support for children with dyslexia in primary schools in rural areas.
Transport: Rural Areas
20 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment she has made of the (a) affordability and (b) availability of transport to post-16 (i) education and (ii) training in (A) West Dorset constituency and (B) other rural areas.
Transport: Schools and Further Education
20 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department plans to review the funding framework for post-16 (a) school and (b) college transport, in the context of the requirement for participation in education or training until the age of 18.
Transport: Schools and Further Education
20 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to support low-income families with the cost of transport to (a) school and (b) college for 16 to 18-year-olds in West Dorset constituency.
Transport: Rural Areas
20 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has made an assessment of the potential impact of post-16 transport costs on (a) education access and (b) participation rates in rural communities.
Special Educational Needs: Reform
8 Jul 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has made an assessment of the potential impact of replacing EHCPs under SEND reform plans on children with complex needs.
Special Educational Needs: Reform
8 Jul 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether his Department has consulted families and local authorities on the future of EHCPs as part of SEND system reform.
Special Educational Needs: Reform
8 Jul 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department plans to phase out Education, Health and Care Plans as part of its SEND reform proposals.
Special Educational Needs: Public Bodies
8 Jul 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department is developing proposals for the creation of a national body for special educational needs and disabilities.
Special Educational Needs: Public Bodies
8 Jul 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of establishing a national body for special educational needs and disabilities to ensure consistency of support across local authorities.