§ Mr. MichaelTo ask the Secretary of State for Wales how many children in South Glamorgan and in each county in Wales have been statemented in regard to special educational needs involving hearing impairment in each of the last five years.
§ Sir Wyn RobertsInformation on the types of disabilities of children with statements of special educational needs was not collected centrally for 1991.
The number of children with hearing impairments for whom statements of special education needs were made in each of the years 1986–90, in each county in Wales, is given in the following table:
1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 Clwyd 5 9 3 10 19 Dyfed 8 4 4 4 4 Gwent 9 4 3 6 3 Gwynedd — — — 3 4 Mid Glamorgan 14 10 6 33 22 Powys 3 — — 1 — South Glamorgan 10 7 7 11 3 West Glamorgan 11 9 8 12 7 Wales 60 43 31 80 62