Question follow-through · 81701
Schools: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to increase (a) capacity and (b) resources in community schools in the context of transfers from the private to comprehensive school sector.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 13 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 15 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 30 Oct 2025 · 17 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
13 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to increase (a) capacity and (b) resources in community schools in the context of transfers from the private to comprehensive school sector.
15 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
30 Oct 2025
Answer published
The department works to support local authorities to ensure that every local area has sufficient school places for children that need them. School funding in England is increasing by £3.7 billion in the 2025/26 financial year, taking total core school f...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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26 Nov 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps the Government is taking to increase capacity and resources in community schools, to accommodate pupils transferring from the private to comprehensive school sector in the last year.
Special Educational Needs
26 Nov 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps the Government is taking to help specialist independent SEND schools remain open in in response to independent school closures in the last year.
Special Educational Needs
3 Feb 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department has taken to help support parents of students with SEND with having Education, Health and Care Plans in place.