Question follow-through · 16334
Special Educational Needs: Armed Forces
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what is the latest assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of access to special educational needs or disabilities provision on a) Armed Forces family satisfaction and b) personnel retention.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 6 Jul 2026
- Target answer date
- 8 Jul 2026
- Answer
- 28 Jul 2026 · 22 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
6 Jul 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what is the latest assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of access to special educational needs or disabilities provision on a) Armed Forces family satisfaction and b) personnel retention.
8 Jul 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
28 Jul 2026
Answer published
We recognise that Armed Forces life may present particular challenges for children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) and their families, particularly because of the need to move regularly. As part of our consultation on reforms of the...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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