Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many pupils in private schools have a specific learning difficulty.
The department does not hold data on the type of special educational need (SEN), including specific learning difficulties, of pupils attending independent schools.
The number of pupils with an Education, Health and Care (EHC) plan attending independent schools, as of January 2021, was 21,887. The number of pupils with SEN, but with no EHC plan, attending independent schools was 80,386.