Question follow-through · 121419
Special Educational Needs: Staff
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many additional educational psychologists, speech and language therapists and occupational therapists will be required annually to deliver the Experts at Hand programme.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 17 Mar 2026
- Target answer date
- 24 Mar 2026
- Answer
- 24 Mar 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
17 Mar 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many additional educational psychologists, speech and language therapists and occupational therapists will be required annually to deliver the Experts at Hand programme.
24 Mar 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
24 Mar 2026
Answer published
The government is providing substantial, targeted investment to help local areas grow and strengthen their specialist workforce. Over the next three years, £1.8 billion will be made available to local area partnerships to develop and rollout of the Expert...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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