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Special Educational Needs: Finance

Commons · Question 75529 · Tabled 5 Sep 2025 · Department for Education · Official record

Answered 17 Oct 2025

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Asked by Josh Babarinde

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to page one of the First Report of the Public Accounts Committee of Session 2024-25, Support for children and young people with special educational needs, HC 353, what steps her Department is tak

Answer

Answered by Georgia Gould, 17 Oct 2025

The department is providing total high needs funding in England of over £12 billion in the 2025/26 financial year for children and young people with complex special educational needs and disabilities (SEND). Of that total high needs funding, East Sussex C...