Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether the New Burdens Assessment will be completed before the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill receives Royal Assent.

The department has conducted initial new burdens impact assessments, in line with normal practice, for measures in the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill. Once the new burdens assessments have been finalised, where it is assessed there is a new burden on local government, all additional net costs will be funded by central government in line with the New Burdens Doctrine.