Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 23 October 2017 to Question 108604, on children: day care, whether her Department plans to collect the relevant information in future; and if she will make a statement.

The number of children with special education needs or a disability taking up the 30 hour’ entitlement will be collected in the January 2018 Early Years Census and published in the ‘Education provision: children under 5 years of age’ statistical first release in June/July 2018.

We do not collect data on whether parents are applying for 30 hours for a child with special educational needs or a disability because it is not part of the eligibility criteria. This means we are unable to identify which codes have been issued or validated for parents of children with special educational needs or a disability.