Special Needs

HC Deb 23 March 2000 vol 346 cc650-2W

Dr. Cable

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment (1) how many and what percentage of(a) primary and (b) secondary pupils have statements of special educational needs in each education authority in London and the South East; [115785]

(2) how many and what percentage of (a) primary and (b) secondary pupils who have statements of special needs have statements which are not being fully met in each education authority in London and the South East. [115792]

Jacqui Smith

The following table lists the number and percentage of pupils with statements of special educational needs, on the roll of primary and secondary schools maintained by each local education authority in London and the South East, as at January 1999.

Information about levels of provision is not collected centrally. It is the responsibility of local education authorities to ensure that the special educational provision specified in a statement is arranged for those children for whom they are responsible. Where a child's parents consider that an LEA is failing to meet this duty, it is open to them to complain to my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State, who will investigate the complaint.

Pupils with statements of special educational needs (SEN) in maintained primary and secondary schools, by local education authority area in England
Position at January 1999
	Primary	secondary
	Total pupils	Pupils with statements	Percentage	Total pupils	Pupils with statements	Percentage
London	637,928	9,961	1.6	387,504	9,899	2.6
Inner London	230,648	3,894	1.7	122,165	3,913	3.2
City of London	216	3	1.4	1—	1—	1—
Camden	11,585	192	1.7	10,802	369	3.4
Hackney	18,019	292	1.6	7,642	230	3.0
Hammersmith and Fulham	9,569	243	2.5	6,492	142	2.2
Haringey	21,869	255	1.2	10,718	241	2.2
Islington	16,000	381	2.4	7,467	309	4.1
Kensington and Chelsea	6,730	92	1.4	3,500	83	2.4
Lambeth	19,893	353	1.8	6,980	186	2.7
Lewisham	22,913	266	1.2	11,261	376	3.3
Newham	30,505	577	1.9	16,593	688	4.1
Southwark	23,682	416	1.8	9,572	306	3.2
Tower Hamlets	21,975	421	1.9	13,717	534	3.9
Wandsworth	17,831	228	1.3	9,617	224	2.3
Westminster	9,861	175	1.8	7,804	225	2.9
Outer London	407,280	6,067	1.5	265,339	5,986	2.3
Barking and Dagenham	18,433	310	1.7	10,427	301	2.9
Barnet	26,441	331	1.3	20,437	427	2.1
Bexley	22,874	318	1.4	16,044	287	1.8
Brent	22,712	411	1.8	13,984	395	2.8
Bromley	25,027	668	2.7	19,662	531	2.7
Croydon	31,534	321	1.0	16,152	195	1.2
Ealing	27,361	284	1.0	14,487	223	1.5
Enfield	26,639	287	1.1	19,568	333	1.7
Greenwich	21,702	434	2.0	13,561	375	2.8
Harrow	20,100	397	2.0	8,318	260	3.1
Havering	21,247	354	1.7	14,886	470	3.2
Hillingdon	23,185	293	1.3	15,265	413	2.7
Hounslow	19,924	296	1.5	15,700	357	2.3
Kingston-upon-Thames	11,763	150	1.3	8,287	158	1.9
Merton	16,048	257	1.6	7,735	256	3.3
Redbridge	22,979	128	0.6	17,731	205	1.2
Richmond-upon-Thames	12,318	200	1.6	7,548	231	3.1
Sutton	14,941	322	2.2	13,170	245	1.9
Waltham Forest	22,352	306	1.4	12,377	324	2.6
South East	664,702	10,360	1.6	471,304	10,458	2.2
Bracknell Forest	9,489	157	1.7	6,096	161	2.6
Windsor and Maidenhead	8,686	149	1.7	9,945	224	2.3
Newbury	12,527	232	1.9	11,127	233	2.1
Reading	11,115	232	2.1	6,180	124	2.0
Slough	11,121	182	1.6	7,412	191	2.6
Wokingham	13,082	241	1.8	10,460	223	2.1
Milton Keynes	22,415	447	2.0	11,526	396	3.4
Buckinghamshire	43,009	700	1.6	30,758	501	1.6
Brighton and Hove	18,335	339	1.8	11,191	255	2.3
East Sussex	38,536	545	1.4	26,358	482	1.8
Portsmouth	16,444	155	0.9	9,593	135	1.4
Southampton	18,497	163	0.9	11,790	212	1.8
Hampshire	105,282	943	0.9	67,504	1,080	1.6
Isle of Wight	7,422	157	2.1	11,435	318	2.8
Medway	25,570	567	2.2	18,856	539	2.9
Kent	115,004	1,961	1.7	88,966	2,178	2.4
Oxfordshire	45,468	577	1.3	37,247	865	2.3
Surrey	80,752	1,591	2.0	53,859	1,236	2.3
West Sussex	61,948	1,022	1.6	41,001	1,105	2.7
1 Not applicable (no schools of this type)

Source:

Annual Schools' Census