AQW 45891/22-27

Mrs Michelle Guy
Alliance Party
Lagan Valley

Tabled Date: 08/05/2026
Answered On Date: 09/06/2026
Priority Written: No

Question:
To ask the Minister of Education to detail (i) the number of Specialist Provision in Mainstream Schools (SPiMS) created; and (ii) the amount of money spent on SPiMS, in each of the last three years.

Answer:

The Education Authority has advised that the number of Specialist Provisions created over the last three years was 101 in 2023, 114 in 2024 and 131 in 2025.

Recurrent costs for the last three years were £34,446,769 in 2022/23, £43,552,105 in 2023/24 and £62,654,591 in 2024/25.

The capital expenditure on Specialist Provisions was £4,853,018 in 2023/24 and £11,803,498 in 2024/25. Prior to 2023/24 financial year, coding was not in place to separately identify expenditure on Specialist Provisions.