Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department made of the effect of selective education on (a) pupils with special educational needs and disabilities and (b) parental choice while drafting the Schools that work for everyone consultation document which was published on 12 September 2016.

The Department has given, and will continue to give, due regard to assessing the impact, both in the consultation document, the study of responses to the consultation and throughout any development of policy areas, following the consultation period.

This Government is committed to ensuring all children, including those with SEND, have the opportunity to achieve their potential and make a successful transition to adult life.

Within our new proposals, we have been clear that we expect selective schools to support non-selective schools, looking to them to be engines of academic and social achievement for all pupils, whatever their background, wherever they are from and whatever their ability. Such proposals are designed to promote parental choice by increasing the number of good school places with SEND in non-selective schools.