Written Question·Department for Education·UIN 97645

Special Educational Needs: Speech and Language Disorders

Tabled: 5 December 2025
Answered: 15 December 2025

Question

Mr Lee Dillon

Liberal DemocratNewbury

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of early interventions in speech and language support.

Answer

Olivia Bailey
The potential merits of focusing on early intervention in providing speech and language support are clear. That is why we have invested in the Early Language Support for Every Child programme, and the Nuffield Early Language Intervention, both of which su...

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