Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the answer of 15 January 2018 to Question 121204, on Education: Finance, which local authorities have made a written request to disapply the School and Early Years Finance (England) regulations 2017 or the School and Early Years Finance (England) regulations 2018 for the purpose of making deductions or variations to funding for children with special educational needs and disabilities.

For the 2017 to 2018 funding year there were requests from 23 local authorities to display the School and Early Years Finance (England) regulations 2017 for reasons classified as relating to variations for children with special education needs and disabilities.

To date for the 2018 to 2019 funding year, 44 requests have been received from 41 local authorities, requesting movement of funding from direct schools funding to budgets for special education needs and disabilities (SEND). A number of these requests have since been withdrawn and 26 applications have been considered. A further 12 requests have been received from eight local authorities for non-block movement variations for children with SEND.