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Special Educational Needs: Finance

Commons · Question 96138 · Tabled 2 Dec 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government · Official record

Answered 10 Dec 2025

Question

Asked by Wendy Morton

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the OBR’s conclusion that cumulative local authority SEND deficits may reach £14 billion by 2027-28, and what implications this has for the financi

Answer

Answered by Alison McGovern, 10 Dec 2025

At Autmn Budget 2025, the government clarified that ambitious Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) reform plans will be set out early in the new year and that funding for SEND will be managed within the government’s overall departmental spend...