Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 23 January 2018 to Question 123718, on Special Educational Needs: Finance, if he will name the (a) 41 local authorities who have requested movement of funding from direct schools funding to budgets for special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) and (b) eight local authorities who have requested non-block movement variations for children with SEND for the 2018 to 2019 funding year.

Fifteen local authorities have withdrawn their requests for movement of funding from direct schools funding to budgets for special education needs and disabilities and one new request has been received. There are, therefore, requests from 27 local authorities currently lodged with the department. The names of these local authorities are listed in the attachment.

We have received one new request for non-block movement variations for children with special needs and disabilities. There are, therefore, requests from nine local authorities currently lodged with the department. These are listed separately in the attachment.