Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Charlie Dewhirst and Josh Fenton-Glynn

Monday 28th April 2025 Commons Chamber

[Charlie Dewhirst (Bridlington and The Wolds) (Con)]

2. What recent assessment her Department has made of the adequacy of local authority funding for SEND.

[Josh Fenton-Glynn (Calder Valley) (Lab)]

9. What steps she is taking to ensure sustainable funding for SEND provision in schools.

[The Secretary of State for Education (Bridget Phillipson)]

This Labour Government inherited a lose, lose, lose SEND system, in the words of the Tories’ last Education Secretary, but we have invested an additional £1 billion in high needs budgets and £740 million to pave the way for pupils with SEND to achieve and thrive in mainstream schools. Just last week in Derbyshire, I met families with experience of the SEND system who had been badly failed by the Tory county council. This Labour Government know that the SEND system needs far-reaching reform to deliver better life chances for all our children.