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Special Educational Needs: Finance

Commons · Question 95032 · Tabled 27 Nov 2025 · Department for Education · Official record

Answered 30 Jan 2026

Question

Asked by Damian Hinds

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to statement in the OBR’s report entitled Economic and fiscal outlook November 2025, page 122, that the Government has announced in the Budget that SEND provision will be fully absorbed into exis

Answer

Answered by Georgia Gould, 30 Jan 2026

The autumn budget made clear that future special educational needs and disabilities funding implications will be managed within the overall government departmental expenditure limits envelope, such that the government would not expect local authorities to...