Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children and young people have been in receipt of an Education Health and Care plan in each year since 2010 in (a) London and (b) England.

The department monitors the number of requests for education, health and care plans each year. The number of requests for assessment for an education, health and care plan since 2016 are available here: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink/8ad13393-78c4-44e2-864b-1d2d589febf8.

The number of education, health and care plans (and, previously, the number of statements of special educational needs) in (a) London and (b) England since 2010 are available here: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink/a1445150-f090-4891-8684-583e75e4b9e9.