Question follow-through · 2953

Special Educational Needs: Occupational Therapy

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, Education, what steps she is taking to ensure that the proposed Education for All Bill does not adversely impact (a) parents and (b) guardians’ legal recourse to challenge the number of hours of occupational th

answeredAdam DanceDepartment for Education

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Answering body
Department for Education
Tabled
19 May 2026
Target answer date
21 May 2026
Answer
18 Jun 2026 · 30 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 19 May 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education, Education, what steps she is taking to ensure that the proposed Education for All Bill does not adversely impact (a) parents and (b) guardians’ legal recourse to challenge the number of hours of occupational th

  2. 21 May 2026

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 18 Jun 2026

    Answer published

    After a 12-week consultation period including over 200 engagement events, meetings and roundtables, the department’s consultation ‘SEND reform: putting children and young people first‘ has now closed. We are carefully reviewing and taking into account all...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

Later records

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Pupils: Autism

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Educational Psychology

29 May 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to help reduce inequalities in access to educational psychologists.

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Educational Psychology: Staff

29 May 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of including full time professional educational psychologists working through (a) traded services, (b) multi-academy trusts and (c) private practice in offic

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Dedicated Schools Grant

29 May 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to help reduce inequalities in Dedicated Schools Grant funding.

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Primary Education: Physical Education and Sports

4 Jun 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 1 June 2026 to Question 3393 on PE and Sport Premium, what assessment she has made of replacing the Physical Education and sport premium with the new Partnerships Network on schools in

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Special Educational Needs: Yeovil

8 Jun 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to improve access to respite provision outside of term time for children with complex Special Educational Needs and Disabilities in Yeovil constituency.

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Special Educational Needs: Teachers

15 Jun 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will publish assessments of the impact of the proposed reforms to the Special Educational Needs and Disabilities system on workloads of teaching staff in (a) Yeovil constituency (b) Somerset and (c) Engl

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Special Educational Needs

15 Jun 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she will publish a costed implementation plan for Special Educational Needs and Disability reform.

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School Meals: Standards

15 Jun 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what support her Department will have in place for schools implementing changes to menus under the new School Food Standards before September 2027.

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GCSE: Dyslexia

9 Jul 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the findings of the British Dyslexia Association's 9 July 2026 Report: GCSE attainment: A decade without progress.

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GCSE: Specific Learning Difficulties

9 Jul 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, in light of the findings of the British Dyslexia Association's 2026 report: GCSE attainment: A decade without progress, what steps she is taking to reduce the GSCE attainment gap between those with Specific Lea

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Holiday Play Schemes: Disability

16 Jul 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to improve access to holiday clubs for disabled children in (a) Yeovil constituency, (b) Somerset and (c) England.