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Question follow-through · 74134

Special Educational Needs: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment she has made of the potential merits of revising how the high needs national funding formula is calculated.

answeredDepartment for Education

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Answering body
Department for Education
Tabled
2 Sept 2025
Target answer date
4 Sept 2025
Answer
10 Sept 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 2 Sept 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment she has made of the potential merits of revising how the high needs national funding formula is calculated.

  2. 4 Sept 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 10 Sept 2025

    Answer published

    The department’s aim is to establish a fair education funding system that directs resources to where they are most needed and enable improved support and outcomes for children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND).The dep...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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