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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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  1. 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

  2. 20 Jan 2026

    Target answer date

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  3. 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...

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