Question follow-through · 106320
Special Educational Needs: Tees Valley
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has undertaken of specialist school place sufficiency in Tees Valley combined authority area and its Middlesbrough and Stockton-on-Tees local authority areas in each of the next f
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 16 Jan 2026
- Target answer date
- 20 Jan 2026
- Answer
- 26 Feb 2026 · 41 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
16 Jan 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has undertaken of specialist school place sufficiency in Tees Valley combined authority area and its Middlesbrough and Stockton-on-Tees local authority areas in each of the next f
20 Jan 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
26 Feb 2026
Answer published
The statutory duty to provide sufficient school places, including for pupils with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), sits with local authorities. To support this, the department has announced at least £3 billion of high needs capital fundi...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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