Special Educational Needs: Finance
Commons · Question 16325 · Tabled 26 Nov 2024 · Department for Education · Official record
Answered 4 Dec 2024
Question
Asked by James Wild
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 26 November 2024 to Question 14758 on Special Educational Needs: Finance, and with reference to Table 5.1 in the Autumn Budget 2024, HC 295, on what evidential basis item 62, page 121,
Answer
Answered by Catherine McKinnell, 4 Dec 2024
The Office for Budget Responsibility had forecast that local authorities would spend £1.4 billion more than the funding they would receive on high needs in the 2025/26 financial year. This was on the assumption that high needs funding would increase only ...