To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science how many complaints he has received in each of the years 1985 to 1989 that a local education authority was in breach of its duty to identify and assess a child with special educational needs, as laid down in sections 4 and 5 of the Education Act 1981; on how many of these occasions he has used his default powers under sections 68 and 99 of the Education Act 1944; and if he will make a statement.

This information can be provided only at disproportionate cost.