§ Mrs. CaltonTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many deaf children were taught 761W (a) with British sign language and (b) without access to British sign language in the last 12 months for which figures are available. [56493]
§ Mr. Ivan LewisThe Department does not collect this information centrally. However, an interim report from the National Evaluation of Support Options for Deaf and Hearing-Impaired Children in 1999 suggests the following percentages of deaf children, with average hearing loss, born between 1980 and 1994 used British sign language within their education programmes:
Percentage Children with moderate deafness 2 Children with severe deafness 5 Children with profound deafness Without a cochlear implant 20 With a cochlear implant 5
§ Mrs. CaltonTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many and what percentage of profoundly deaf young people achieved(a) five A to C GCSE grades and (b) five A to G GCSE grades, broken down by local authority in the last four years.[56492]
§ Mr. Ivan LewisThe Department currently does not collect this information centrally, though we shall shortly be consulting on whether and how data on different types of special educational needs could be collected. Subject to the outcome of this consultation, the data requested might be collected from January 2004.