Question follow-through · 110368
Special Educational Needs: Costs
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what (a) methodology and (b) data the Department uses to (i) calculate and (ii) compare the average cost of maintained special school placements and independent school placements.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 3 Feb 2026
- Target answer date
- 5 Feb 2026
- Answer
- 4 Mar 2026 · 29 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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Recorded timeline
3 Feb 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what (a) methodology and (b) data the Department uses to (i) calculate and (ii) compare the average cost of maintained special school placements and independent school placements.
5 Feb 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
4 Mar 2026
Answer published
For maintained special schools and special academies, the department uses local authorities’ actual expenditure on high needs top-up funding, to which is added the £10,000 per place funding using pupil numbers from the January school census, divided by th...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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