Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many Education Health and Care Plans (EHCP) there are in each constituency; and what the cost of funding those plans is, broken down by constituency, in the latest year for which figures are available.

Figures for education, health and care (EHC) plans are not available at the level of parliamentary constituency. The department publishes annual figures on the number of EHC plans being administered by each local authority in England. The local authority level figures for 2022 can be found here: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/education-health-and-care-plans.

The department does not hold figures specifically for the cost of funding the plans. Allocations of high needs funding to local authorities as part of their dedicated schools grant for the current financial year, from which they cover the cost of the provision for those children and young people with EHC plans, are set out here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dedicated-schools-grant-dsg-2022-to-2023.