Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he plans in the forthcoming spending review to announce Additional High Needs funding to March 2024, with that funding allocated to councils based on an assessment of local need rather than historical spend.

The upcoming Spending Review is a one-year exercise that will set departmental resource and capital budgets for 2021-22.

My RHF the Chancellor will set out the government’s spending plans that will focus on tackling Covid-19.

The government is committed to the multi-year resource settlement for schools that was announced at Spending Round 2019. This has provided for a £780 million boost to high needs funding this year, and an additional £730 million next year, which will bring the total high needs budget to over £8 billion in 2021-22.