Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many educational psychologists were employed in all local authorities in 2017.

Figures for educational psychologists in service in all local authorities in 2017 are not available until Summer 2018.

The attached table provides the number of Educational Psychologists (EPs) that were reported as being directly employed by each local authority in November 2016. The list excludes local authorities where EP provision has been outsourced or the provision has been shared with other local authorities. It would also be open to academies and free schools to obtain their own provision.