To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills whether his Department keeps records (a) nationally and (b) broken down by authority of the costs to local education authorities of preparing for cases before tribunals. (130506)

[holding answer 29 March 2007]: The Department for Education and Skills does not collect this information. The Special Educational Needs and Disability Tribunal (SENDIST) is no longer managed by the Department. On 1 April 2006 SENDIST became part of the Tribunals Service, an executive agency of the Department for Constitutional Affairs.