Special Educational Needs: Finance
Commons · Question 97315 · Tabled 4 Dec 2025 · Department for Education · Official record
Answered 12 Dec 2025
Question
Asked by Ben Obese-Jecty
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what is the total cost to the public purse of the decision to extend the statutory override for the cost of SEND to 2027-28.
Answer
Answered by Georgia Gould, 12 Dec 2025
The statutory override is an accounting measure, designed to keep Dedicated Schools Grant deficits separate from local authorities’ wider financial position. The extension of the override to the end of the 2027/28 financial year does not affect local auth...