Question follow-through · 88572
Special Educational Needs
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what measures her Department is implementing to improve support for children in mainstream schools who have special educational needs and disabilities.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 10 Nov 2025
- Target answer date
- 12 Nov 2025
- Answer
- 21 Nov 2025 · 11 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
10 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what measures her Department is implementing to improve support for children in mainstream schools who have special educational needs and disabilities.
12 Nov 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
21 Nov 2025
Answer published
The government has been clear that a more inclusive education system is needed to give children and young people opportunities they need to achieve and thrive. All schools have a duty to support children and young people with special educational needs and...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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