Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether he has plans to allocated additional funding to pupils with special education needs at school in the north of England.

In December 2018, we announced that we would allocate an additional £250 million in funding for pupils with complex special educational needs across England, across the financial years 2018-19 and 2019-20. This funding is in addition to the increases we had already promised. Local authorities in the North East, North West, and Yorkshire and the Humber will receive £67.7 million of this funding. The allocation to each local authority can be found at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/high-needs-funding-arrangements-2019-to-2020. We will also, of course, take the opportunity of the next Spending Review to ensure that we make a strong case for the public funds that enable schools to make provision for their children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities.