To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families when his Department plans to issue its disability audit tool to local authorities. (242937)

Work on the disability audit tool is at an early stage as commissioned research upon which it is to be based was only published at the end of November. The Department expects it to be developed during the early part of 2009 with the assistance of the researcher and a working group of stakeholders with the aim of issuing it by the beginning of the next school year.