Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the letter from the Minister for Children, Families and Wellbeing to the hon. Member for St Albans, dated 17 May 2023, on the application of the National Funding Formula (NFF) for special educational needs and disability to Hertfordshire, whether she will publish the analysis which shows that (a) the gap between Hertfordshire and other education authorities' historic levels of spending and their current allocation has significantly narrowed since 2017/18, and (b) adjusting historic spending data used in the NFF calculation would not have a significant effect on the central funding allocation for Hertfordshire.

I apologise to the hon. Member for St Albans that she has not yet received a response to her request for this analysis. I will write to you within the next week, providing the analysis that you have requested.