Written Question·Department for Education·UIN 111470

Pupil Premium: Health Services

Tabled: 6 February 2026
Answered: 16 February 2026

Question

Max Wilkinson

Liberal DemocratCheltenham

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment has her department made of the potential benefits to allowing parents of previously looked after children to make financial contributions to the Pupil Premium for therapy.

Answer

Georgia Gould
The purpose of pupil premium funding is to improve educational outcomes for disadvantaged pupils in state-funded schools in England.Pupil premium is not a personal budget for individual pupils. It is for schools to decide how to allocate the funding, afte...

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