HC Deb 26 April 2004 vol 420 c805W
Tim Loughton

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many learning disabled children there are in England. [165538]

Margaret Hodge

The information requested is not available centrally at present.

Information on special educational needs by type of need was collected for the first time in January 2004 and provisional data will be available at the end of April.

Available information on the number of pupils with special educational needs is given in the table.

All schools1: number of pupils with special educational needs— January 2003 England
Number of

pupils and

percentage
Number of pupils with a statement of SEN 250,545
Percentage of pupils with a statement of SEN 3.0
Number of pupils with SEN without a statement 1,169,780
Percentage of pupils with SEN without a statement 14.0
1Includes maintained nursery, primary, secondary and special schools, pupil referral units, independent schools, city technology colleges, city academies and non-maintained special schools
Source:
Annual Schools' Census