Question follow-through · 83703
Schools: Transport
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the number contracts of home to school transport for children with SEND that have been handed back to local authorities since April 2025.
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 20 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 22 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 28 Oct 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
20 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the number contracts of home to school transport for children with SEND that have been handed back to local authorities since April 2025.
22 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
28 Oct 2025
Answer published
Local authorities are responsible for arranging home to school travel for eligible children. They deliver their duty through a mix of in-house services, passes for free travel on public transport and contracts with private transport operators. Such contra...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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