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Written Question
Special Educational Needs
Monday 20th January 2020

Asked by: Flick Drummond (Conservative - Meon Valley)

Question to the Department for Education:

What steps he is taking to support children with special educational needs.

Answered by Michelle Donelan

To help ensure those with special educational needs get the right support we have, for example:

  • provided an extra £780 million high needs funding next year, bringing the total for those with the most complex needs to £7.2 billion; and
  • launched a major review of the SEND system. We will update on progress shortly.
Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 20 Jan 2020
Oral Answers to Questions

"Will the Minister update us on what support children with special educational needs receive, in respect of improving inter-agency co-ordination in order to provide prompt support and interventions?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 14 Mar 2017
Budget Resolutions

"On the point made earlier about women returners, is my right hon. Friend aware that just 5% of women returning to work would generate an extra £750 million in the economy—a very good return?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 02 Mar 2017
International Women’s Day

"I am delighted to speak in this important debate and to follow the very powerful speech from the hon. Member for West Ham (Lyn Brown), who can count on my support for her campaign.

The UN’s theme for International Women’s Day this year is

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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 05 Dec 2016
Children and Social Work Bill [Lords]

"It was my choice to be last today, so I am very pleased to be speaking now. It is a great honour to follow my very hon. Friend the Member for Rochester and Strood (Kelly Tolhurst), who made an excellent speech, and I completely agree with her on the support …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 14 Nov 2016
Oral Answers to Questions

"One of the social mobility issues is about encouraging teachers to get pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds to apply to Russell Group universities. What are the Government doing to encourage young people, particularly those from disadvantaged backgrounds, to apply to the top universities?..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 01 Nov 2016
Apprenticeships Funding

"Is it not also true that there is a significant return for the taxpayer—especially when compared with universities, where the return is much less—of £26 to £28 for every £1 that the Government put into apprenticeships? Promoting apprenticeships is a good thing for the taxpayer...."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 12 Sep 2016
Schools that work for Everyone

"May I take the opportunity to ask my right hon. Friend to congratulate Portsmouth schools, both academy and comprehensive, on another improvement in their results this year; and to congratulate St Edmund’s Catholic School on becoming an outstanding comprehensive? Will my right hon. Friend assure me that whatever structures we …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 06 Sep 2016
Educational Performance: Boys

"Thank you for allowing me to speak, Mr Walker. I will be as fast as I can. I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Lincoln (Karl MᶜCartney) for securing this important debate.

It is disappointing that the gender gap starts before children go to school and goes all the …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 12 Jul 2016
SATs Results

"This year, of course, it will be very difficult to embed the new assessment. Does my hon. Friend agree that the new curriculum assessment gives children a mastery of the subject before they move on? That is far preferable to them moving through the system without having that grasp of …..."
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