Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate his Department has made of the number of children with special educational needs and disabilities that do not currently have a place in an education setting.

The information requested is not held for all children with special educational needs and disabilities. However, the department holds data from local authorities on the number of children with education, health and care (EHC) plans awaiting education provision, available in the publication ‘Education, Health and Care plans’ at https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/education-health-and-care-plans.

Our latest published figure, in May 2021, for the number of children of compulsory school age who have an EHC plan and were not in education was 1,460, this represents 0.3% of all EHC plans.