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Local Government Finance

Commons · Question 96850 · Tabled 3 Dec 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government · Official record

Answered 10 Dec 2025

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Asked by Ben Obese-Jecty

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of mitigating the financial risk of the removal of the statutory override from local authorities regarding the requirement to

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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...