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Special Educational Needs: Hearing Impairment

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 15 December 2025 to Question 85962 on Special Educational Needs: Hearing Impairment, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of making support for families available fro

answeredDepartment for Education

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Answering body
Department for Education
Tabled
18 Dec 2025
Target answer date
12 Jan 2026
Answer
12 Jan 2026 · 25 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 18 Dec 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 15 December 2025 to Question 85962 on Special Educational Needs: Hearing Impairment, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of making support for families available fro

  2. 12 Jan 2026

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 12 Jan 2026

    Answer published

    The department is committed to ensuring that all children, including deaf and hard of hearing children, have the best possible start in life. The NHS Newborn Hearing Screening Programme aims to identify permanent moderate, severe, and profound deafness an...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

Later records

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Childminding

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Childminding: Tax Allowances

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Childcare: Finance

28 Jan 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the gap between her Department's funding rates for early years childcare and the cost of provision.

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Students: Loans

9 Feb 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the appropriateness of maintaining student loan repayment thresholds.

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Students: Loans

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Students: Loans

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Students: Loans

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Special Educational Needs: Finance

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Pupils: Absenteeism

5 Mar 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate her Department has made of the increase in the number of children classified as children missing education (CME) in Lancashire over the last decade; and what assessment she has made of the potenti

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Pupils: Absenteeism

5 Mar 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to support local authorities experiencing increases in children missing education, including Lancashire County Council.