Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment his Department has made of the educational outcomes for children with pathological demand avoidance.

The Department for Education has not assessed the educational outcomes of children and young people who have had a health diagnosis of pathological demand avoidance (PDA) as a distinct group.

The department collects data on the educational outcomes of children identified as having special educational needs in comparison to children without special needs. Where individual children and young people with PDA have been identified as having a special educational need, they will be captured via these data collections.