School Funding: Special Educational Needs Debate

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Department: Department for Education

School Funding: Special Educational Needs

Lord Blunkett Excerpts
Thursday 23rd May 2024

(6 months, 4 weeks ago)

Lords Chamber
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Baroness Barran Portrait Baroness Barran (Con)
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He is renowned for his kindness. This Government have backed education from day one and see it as absolutely critical for our future. Given the opportunity, we will continue to do so.

Lord Blunkett Portrait Lord Blunkett (Lab)
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My Lords, I wish the Minister well for the future; she has been very accommodative over the years. Is it not true that, from this September, spending on schools will have returned to 2000 levels in real terms?

Baroness Barran Portrait Baroness Barran (Con)
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From this September, funding for schools will be the highest it has ever been per pupil in real terms.