Question follow-through · 96475
Special Educational Needs: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much does she estimate the total cost of assuming the full cost of SEND within Central Government will be.
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 2 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 4 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 20 Apr 2026 · 139 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
2 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much does she estimate the total cost of assuming the full cost of SEND within Central Government will be.
4 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
20 Apr 2026
Answer published
The OBR has updated its forecast following publication of the proposed reforms showing a more effective and sustainable system. In 2028/29, we will be spending £7 billion more on the special educational needs and disabilities system, including funding new...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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