Written Question·Department for Education·UIN 122253

Special Educational Needs

Tabled: 19 March 2026

Answered: 8 April 2026

Named Day

Question

Saqib Bhatti

Conservative — Meriden and Solihull East

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of when mainstream schools will have the baseline staffing levels required to deliver the universal inclusion expectations set out in the Schools White Paper.

Answer

Georgia Gould

Recruiting and retaining expert teachers is at the heart of the government’s Plan for Change, with good progress already being made: the teaching workforce has grown by 2,346 FTE between 2023/24 and 2024/25, in secondary and special schools; the schools w...

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