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Mr. Steinberg
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science how many children in the school population have been statemented; what this is as a percentage of total school population; how many of those children statemented are in special schools and what is the percentage; and how many are in mainstream schools and what is the percentage.
Mr. Alan Howarth
The information requested for January 1989 in England is as follows:
| Number of children with statements of special educational needs | As a percentage of the school population | |
| All schools | 155,191 | 2·1 |
| Special schools | 1 102,064 | 1·4 |
| Mainstream schools | 53,127 | 0·7 |
| 1 No information is available on the number of children without statements in special schools. It is assumed that all children in special schools have statements. | ||