Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to Answer of 7 January 2018 to Question 203903, of the 236,225 statements of special educational needs in place on 31 August 2014 how many (a) have been transferred to an EHC, (b) were assessed and a decision made not to transfer to an EHC plan, (c) were discontinued because the individual had left school at the end of compulsory schooling or after and (d) were reviewed and discontinued as special needs were being met without Statement or EHC plan or for other reasons.

The department publishes the requested data for those that (a) have been transferred to an education health and care (EHC) plan and (b) were assessed and a decision made not to transfer to an EHC plan by individual calendar year in the ‘Statements of SEN and EHC plans’ publication available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/statements-of-sen-and-ehc-plans-england-2018.

The same publication also includes the combined totals of statements and EHC plans that (c) were discontinued because the individual had left school at the end of compulsory schooling or after and (d) were reviewed and discontinued as special needs were being met without Statement or EHC plan or for other reasons.