To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families if he will include educational attainment as a criterion for the national indicator for disabled children's services. (153571)

The Government committed to develop a national disabled children’s indicator as part of a Public Service Agreement in the report ‘Aiming high for Disabled Children’ (May 2007). The report outlines some of the issues to be considered in developing the indicator and we expect the indicator to be finalised later in the year.

The Government are also agreeing a national indicator set for local government, which will include many of the indicators that will be used to measure progress at a national level on the Public Service Agreements over the Comprehensive Spending Review 2007 period. This set will include indicators related to educational attainment and will be finalised later in the year.