Special Educational Needs: Scotland

HL Deb 10 May 1999 vol 600 cc126-7WA

Baroness Blatch

asked Her Majesty's Government:

Whether they will publish data for Scotland showing, for state primary and secondary schools separately, the amount of money spent per pupil, the total amount of money spent and the percentage of the total budget spent on:

1. (a) pupils with special educational needs and with statements of special educational need; and
2. (b) pupils with special educational needs but without statements of special educational need;

in each of the years 1983 to 1998 showing data separately for boys, girls and all pupils and including, for each category of school, the number of schools and the number of pupils on roll. [HL2214]

The Minister of State, Scottish Office (Lord Macdonald of Tradeston):

This information is not available centrally in the form requested.

Baroness Blatch

asked Her Majesty's Government:

Whether they will publish data for Scotland showing, for all state primary schools, the percentage of pupils on roll in each of the years 1983 to 1998;

1. (a) with special educational needs and with statements of special educational need;
2. (b) with special educational needs but without statements of special educational need,

showing data separately for boys, girls and all pupils and including the number of schools and the total number of pupils on roll. [HL2236]

Lord Macdonald of Tradeston:

The information available on the number of pupils with a record of needs, or with special educational needs but not recorded, in state primary schools in Scotland is shown in the table:

Pupils with special educational needs in publicly funded Primary Schools in Scotland
	With Record of Needs1, 2	Without Record of Needs3
Year	Number	Per cent of total Pupils on Roll	Number	Per cent of total Pupils on Roll	Number of Primary Schools	Number of Pupils
1997	3,890	0.9	1,053	0.2	2,300	440,594
1998*	3,863	0.9	1,003	0.2	2,289	435,849

^*=Provisional.

Notes

¹ Separate information for boys and girls is not collected.

²2 Information not collected every year.

³3 Information not collected before 1995

Baroness Blatch

asked Her Majesty's Government:

Whether they will publish data for Scotland showing for comprehensive schools, modern schools, grammar schools and all state secondary schools separately, the percentage of pupils on roll and the percentage of all 16 year-old pupils in each of the years 1983 to 1998:

1. (a) with special educational needs and with statements of special educational needs;
2. (b) with special educational needs but without statements of special educational need,

showing data separately for boys, girls and all pupils and including, for each category of school, the number of schools, the number of pupils on roll and the number of 16 year-old pupils. [HL2235]

Lord Macdonald of Tradeston:

This information is not available centrally in the form requested.