Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children are being home schooled due to a lack of SEND provision in (a) Wansbeck constituency, (b) Northumberland and (c) England as of 14 December 2023.

The department publishes data on the number of children in the ‘Elective home education’ (EHE) publication, which is available at: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/elective-home-education. This includes data at a local authority, regional and national level. Data is collected from local authorities and is not available for parliamentary constituencies.

Data on the primary reason for EHE is collected and is available for Northumberland local authority and England at: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink/ff8aac35-11d4-4d11-af9c-08dbfa4e7cea.

Lack of Special Educational Needs and Disabilities provision is not one of the specific reasons collected.