Question follow-through · 96851

Special Educational Needs: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of funding the cost of SEND provision from RDEL allocations on local authorities.

answeredDepartment for Education

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Answering body
Department for Education
Tabled
3 Dec 2025
Target answer date
8 Dec 2025
Answer
12 Dec 2025 · 9 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 3 Dec 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of funding the cost of SEND provision from RDEL allocations on local authorities.

  2. 8 Dec 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 12 Dec 2025

    Answer published

    The government has set out its position on page 105 of the budget document, confirming that special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) pressure will be absorbed within the overall government Departmental Expenditure Limits (DEL) budget from the fin...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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