AQW 51582/11-16

Ms Claire Sugden
Independent
East Londonderry

Tabled Date: 27/11/2015
Answered On Date: 08/12/2015
Priority Written: No

Question:
To ask the Minister of Education to detail how much funding his Department has allocated to special education in each of the last five years.

Answer:

The table below provides the total departmental spend on special education in each of the last five years.

	2010-11 £m	2011-12 £m	2012-13 £m	2013-14 £m	2014-15 £m
Total	202	196	214	231	242*

* the 2014-15 Resource Accounts for the ELBs are yet to be finalised and as such may be subject to change.

The above figures include spend on statemented pupils in mainstream schools, pupils in special schools and home to school transport for statmented pupils attending primary, post-primary and special schools. The table also includes funding provided for Middletown Centre for Autism and a number of capacity-building initiatives within the Review of SEN and Inclusion.

Schools are also responsible for meeting any additional needs of pupils within the first three stages of the Code of Practice on the Identification and Assessment of SEN. Such funding is not separately identified from within the overall delegated budget distributed to schools, nor is it separately reported on. The level of spend by schools for such pupils cannot be disaggregated from the schools’ overall expenditure.