Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 16 October 2018 to Questions 175942, 175943 and 175944, what information his Department (a) holds and (b) records by special educational needs primary need on children educated in settings other than a schools or awaiting a school place.

The department collects the total number of children and young people with education, health and care (EHC) plans, including those educated in settings other than schools or awaiting provision from each local authority via the special educational needs survey (commonly known as SEN2) data collection. This collection does not include any information on the primary need of the child or young person.

The department collects information in the alternative provision census on pupils attending a school not maintained by a local authority for whom the authority is paying full tuition fees, or educated otherwise than in schools and pupil referral units, under arrangements made (and funded) by the authority. This includes primary type of need for those with an EHC plan.

Placement types are categorised as follows:

• Non-maintained further education provision
• One on one tuition
• Other unregistered provider
• Work based placement