Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate his Department has made of the number of appeals made to the special educational needs and disability tribunal in each year since 2014; and of those appeals, how many have found against local authorities in (a) Dulwich and West Norwood, (b) London and (c) England.

It has not been possible to provide an analysis of the figures at constituency level. The figures provided below are for the boroughs of Southwark and Lambeth, part of which fall within the Dulwich and Norwood constituency. Our monitoring and statistics show that 75% of appeals scheduled for a final hearing do settle or concede prior to the hearing date with a decision at hearing not required.

* - 2017 - 18 figures have not yet been published and are currently being analysed and verified ready for publication on 13 December 2018 as part of the Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) Tribunals annual statistics

** - Appeals disposed are within the same time period. In SEND the Tribunal hears appeals within 22 weeks of the appeal registered. Therefore, figures may be different from those registered in the period as those hearings could follow into the next reporting year.

*** - The Tribunal reports a successful appeal if one part or all of the appeal is found in favour of the parent or young person. HMCTS manual data collections show that 75% of appeals scheduled for a final hearing do settle or concede prior to the hearing date with a decision at hearing not required.