Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many special educational needs and disability appeals for children with autistic spectrum disorder were (a) decided, (b) withdrawn and (c) granted in the last five years; and what costs were awarded in respect of those appeals.

The information requested at (a) – (c) is published in the Tribunals and Gender Recognition Certificate Statistics Quarterly on gov.uk at the following: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/tribunals-and-gender-recognition-certificate-statistics-quarterly-july-to-september-2016.

HMCTS only holds management information on costs awarded since September 2014. In the period September 2014 to August 2016 (the last two complete years of the published annual statistics) costs were awarded in 12 of the autistic spectrum disorder cases determined at hearing.