§ Mr. OatenTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what estimate she has made of the number of children with deafness in full-time education in each in the last three years. [61417]
§ Mr. Stephen Twigg[holding answer 13 June 2002]: Information on numbers of children with specific types of special need is not available centrally.
The Department is considering introducing a requirement for schools and local education authorities to provide this information from 2004.