| Heading: |
Pre-school Education: Special Educational Needs |
| Question ID: |
1800889 |
| UIN: |
50954 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-05-08 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5070 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Lisa Smart
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
Lisa Smart
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to increase the number of local authority funded early years places for children with SEND under the age of 9 months. |
| Is named day: |
false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-05-29 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4653 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Stephen Morgan
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| Answering Member handle: |
stephenmorganmp
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@stephenmorganmp
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| Answer text: |
The department does not fund places for children under the age of nine months. This is because the earliest a child can take up their government-funded place is the term after a child turns nine months old. |
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| Answering body ID: |
60 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Education |
| Tweeted: |
true |