Special Educational Needs: East Sussex

To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many maintained special schools there were in (a) Eastbourne and (b) East Sussex in each year since 1990. (267248)

The available information is shown in the following table. Information by parliamentary constituency is only available from 1997.

*Maintained special schools: number of schools in Eastbourne parliamentary constituency and East Sussex local authority as at January each year*
	East Sussex local authority	Eastbourne parliamentary constituency
1990¹	20	n/a
1991¹	20	n/a
1992¹	19	n/a
1993¹	19	n/a
1994¹	19	n/a
1995¹	19	n/a
1996¹	19	n/a
1997¹	18	3
1998²	11	3
1999²	11	3
2000²	11	3
2001²	11	3
2002²	11	3
2003²	11	3
2004²	11	3
2005²	11	3
2006²	11	3
2007²	11	3
2008²	10	3
n/a = Not available. ¹ Before local government reorganisation. ² After local government reorganisation. Source: School Census.

Volume 491: debated on Tuesday 21 April 2009