Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent estimate he has made of the number of children who have an autism diagnosis who are home schooled.

The department does not hold information on the number of children who have an autism diagnosis who are home schooled.

Information on the number of children with statements of special educational needs (SEN) and education, health and care (EHC) plans only, where educational arrangements made by parents in accordance with Section 7 of the Education Act 1996 is available in the publication “Statements of SEN and EHC plans: 2018”, are available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/statements-of-sen-and-ehc-plans-england-2018.

This information cannot be broken down by type of need.