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Special Educational Needs

Asked by Richard FullerConservativeDepartment for EducationTabled Answered 13 May 2025UIN 49909

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the average cost of building a special educational needs school was in the last five years.

Answered by Stephen Morgan

New school buildings are delivered by the department, local authorities, and other bodies.

The average cost of building a special educational needs school can be found on pages 25-29 in the national cost benchmarking study published at: https://documents.hants.gov.uk/property-services/NationalSchoolDeliveryBenchmarkingreport.pdf.

This report contains cost information on local authority delivered schools and department-delivered schools, the data has been collected since 2012.

Standards for new school buildings change over time, for example to increase sustainability requirements, so care should be taken in comparing costs directly year to year.

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