Question follow-through · 69572
Special Educational Needs: West Dorset
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department plans to increase the number of new SEND schools in West Dorset constituency.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 21 Jul 2025
- Target answer date
- 1 Sept 2025
- Answer
- 1 Sept 2025 · 42 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
21 Jul 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department plans to increase the number of new SEND schools in West Dorset constituency.
1 Sept 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
1 Sept 2025
Answer published
The department know that many children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) struggle to find a suitable school placement that is close to their home and meets their needs. The government committed to addressing this by i...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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Pre-school Education: West Dorset
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