Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Department: Department for Education

Oral Answers to Questions

Mark Pawsey Excerpts
Monday 12th November 2018

(5 years, 6 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Nick Gibb Portrait Nick Gibb
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The national funding formula introduces a fairer system, so that every pupil in every part of the country is funded on the same basis. A child in York with special educational needs, with low prior attainment or from a disadvantaged background will receive precisely the same amount of money as a similar pupil elsewhere in the country.

Mark Pawsey Portrait Mark Pawsey (Rugby) (Con)
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Was the Minister as concerned as I was when Warwickshire County Council recently brought forward a strategy document stating that dyslexia would not constitute a special educational need? Is he as pleased as I am that that document has now been withdrawn?