Dyslexia

(asked on 21st January 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many people have been diagnosed with dyslexia in each of the last five years.


Answered by
Nadhim Zahawi Portrait
Nadhim Zahawi
This question was answered on 25th January 2019

The information requested is not held centrally.

We publish the number and proportion of pupils with special educational needs, including the type of need in the annual ‘Special educational needs in England’ statistical release, available at https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-special-educational-needs-sen.

In the 2018 release ‘Special educational needs in England: 2018’, available at https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/special-educational-needs-in-england-january-2018, table 8 covers types of need. Pupils with special educational needs are recorded according to their primary type of need. The current types of need do not include a specific breakdown for dyslexia alone. These cases are expected to be recorded under ‘Specific Learning Difficulty’. No estimates of the number of children with dyslexia within this category have been made.

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