Question follow-through · 66817
Special Educational Needs: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of allocating SEND funding to schools on the basis of their current cohort of pupils rather than the cohort in a previous academic year.
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 10 Jul 2025
- Target answer date
- 15 Jul 2025
- Answer
- 15 Jul 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
10 Jul 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of allocating SEND funding to schools on the basis of their current cohort of pupils rather than the cohort in a previous academic year.
15 Jul 2025
Target answer date
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15 Jul 2025
Answer published
The schools national funding formula (NFF) operates on a lag, where schools are funded based on their pupils in the previous October census. This helps to give schools more certainty over funding levels, to aid their planning, and is particularly importan...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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