Question follow-through · 66529
Special Educational Needs: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what progress her Department has made on reviewing the high needs national funding formula.
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 10 Jul 2025
- Target answer date
- 14 Jul 2025
- Answer
- 18 Jul 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
10 Jul 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what progress her Department has made on reviewing the high needs national funding formula.
14 Jul 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
18 Jul 2025
Answer published
The operation of the high needs funding system is currently under review. Our aim is to establish a fair education funding system that directs resources to where they are most needed and enables improved support and outcomes for children and young people ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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