Written Question·Department for Education·UIN 106169

Free Schools: Closures

Tabled: 15 January 2026
Answered: 23 January 2026

Question

Nick Timothy

ConservativeWest Suffolk

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Written Statement of 15 December 2025 on Investment in high needs place, HCWS1163, which (a) Members of Parliament and (b) local authorities met departmental officials to discuss the statu

Answer

Josh MacAlister
The department has engaged with trusts, local authorities and other stakeholders in relation to projects in scope of the mainstream review, including reviewing the evidence they have provided. This included all of the local authorities with a project in s...

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