Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many requests for Education and Health Care Plans were (a) requested by parents in the South Holland and the Deepings constituency and (b) signed off by Lincolnshire Council for students in the South Holland the Deepings constituency, in the latest period for which data is available.

The department does not hold figures on education, health and care (EHC) plan assessments requested or EHC plans put in place for students living in South Holland and the Deepings constituency. The department does hold figures on EHC plan workload at local authority level. The most recently published figures for Lincolnshire local authority can be found here: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/education-health-and-care-plans.

There were 3 permanent exclusions and 231 suspensions of pupils with special educational needs (SEN) from schools in South Holland and the Deepings parliamentary constituency during the 2019/20 academic year. 33% of permanent exclusions and 40% of suspensions in 2019/20 were of pupils with SEN. SEN includes pupils with and without EHC plans.