Written Question·Department for Education·UIN 102938

Special Educational Needs: Finance

Tabled: 5 January 2026
Answered: 13 January 2026

Question

Pippa Heylings

Liberal DemocratSouth Cambridgeshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to ensure that schools are not required to subsidise EHCP provision from their core budgets.

Answer

Georgia Gould
Since 2014, local authorities are have been required to allocate funding to their local mainstream schools according to a formula that includes factors relating to the likely incidence of special educational needs (SEN) amongst their pupils, and to identi...

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