Question follow-through · 100240

Special Educational Needs: Transport

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she plans to include one or more representatives of providers of home-to-school transport for pupils with special educational needs and disabilities on the SEND Ministerial Development Group.

answeredDepartment for Education

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Answering body
Department for Education
Tabled
15 Dec 2025
Target answer date
17 Dec 2025
Answer
4 Feb 2026 · 51 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 15 Dec 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she plans to include one or more representatives of providers of home-to-school transport for pupils with special educational needs and disabilities on the SEND Ministerial Development Group.

  2. 17 Dec 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 4 Feb 2026

    Answer published

    The special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) ministerial development group brings together voices from across the SEND sector. This group considers a range of perspectives and tests potential solutions to the key challenges the SEND system faces ...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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