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Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill

Asked by Abtisam MohamedLabourDepartment for EducationTabled Answered 7 March 2025UIN 34431

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether the New Burdens Assessment will be completed before the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill receives Royal Assent.

Answered by Catherine McKinnell

The department has conducted initial new burdens impact assessments, in line with normal practice, for measures in the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill. Once the new burdens assessments have been finalised, where it is assessed there is a new burden on local government, all additional net costs will be funded by central government in line with the New Burdens Doctrine.

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