Question follow-through · 106169
Free Schools: Closures
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Written Statement of 15 December 2025 on Investment in high needs place, HCWS1163, which (a) Members of Parliament and (b) local authorities met departmental officials to discuss the statu
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 15 Jan 2026
- Target answer date
- 19 Jan 2026
- Answer
- 23 Jan 2026 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
15 Jan 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Written Statement of 15 December 2025 on Investment in high needs place, HCWS1163, which (a) Members of Parliament and (b) local authorities met departmental officials to discuss the statu
19 Jan 2026
Target answer date
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23 Jan 2026
Answer published
The department has engaged with trusts, local authorities and other stakeholders in relation to projects in scope of the mainstream review, including reviewing the evidence they have provided. This included all of the local authorities with a project in s...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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