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Mr. John Evans
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science what has been the level of spending on special education needs, as a proportion of the education budget, in each of the last three years.
Mr. Butcher
Local authority current expenditure on special education was 4·23, 4·25 and 4·26 per cent. respectively of total local authority current expenditure on education in 1985–86, 1986–87 and 1987–88.