Written Question·Department for Education·UIN 109237

Special Educational Needs: Finance

Tabled: 28 January 2026
Answered: 5 February 2026

Question

Munira Wilson

Liberal DemocratTwickenham

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much alternative funding has been provided to the local authorities of the 18 cancelled special and AP free schools, to create specialist spaces in mainstream schools.

Answer

Josh MacAlister
For the 18 schools where no trust had been appointed and which were in the earliest stages of development local authorities will receive funding for 2487 school places in Summer 2026, equivalent to places the school would have provided.For local authoriti...

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