Special Educational Needs

To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many pupils with (a) statements of and (b) non-statemented special educational needs achieved an A* to C in both English and mathematics GCSE in each of the last 10 years. (253356)

Figures are available for the years 2006-08 only, and are provided in the table:

*Pupils*¹ *in maintained schools with a statement of special education needs (SEN) and with SEN but without a statement achieving A*-C in both English and Mathematics GCSE, 2006-08*²
	Pupils with a statement of SEN	Pupils with SEN but without a statement
2006	1,072	8,990
2007	1,101	11,645
2008	1,284	16,431
¹ Pupils at the end of Key Stage 4 ² Figures are based on final data in 2006 and 2007 and revised data in 2008 Source: National Pupil Database

To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what his most recent estimate is of the number of children with special educational needs who do not have a statement. (267520)

As at January 2008, there were 1,390,670 children with special educational needs who do not have a statement. This figure is contained in Table 1b of the Statistical First Release Special Educational Needs in England, January 2008 available via

http://www.dcsf.gov.uk/rsgateway/DB/SFR/s000794/index.shtml

Volume 490: debated on Friday 27 March 2009