Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 20th May 2025 Question 51559 on Special Educational Needs: Cambridgeshire and with reference to the Permanent data table entitled Initial requests, assessments, discontinued plans, 20 week timeliness, mainstream to special transfers, mediation and tribunals, published on 13 May 2025, if she will publish the data for the number of (a) initial requests for an EHC plan, (b) initial requests for assessment - decision to assess and (c) children and young people assessed for whom an EHC plan was issued in (i) 2024 and (ii) 2025 to date.

Publication of annual statistics on education, health and care plans follows the Code of Practice for Statistics. Details of publications, including those requested, can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/search/research-and-statistics?content_store_document_type=upcoming_statistics&organisations%5B%5D=department-for-education&order=updated-newest. Information for the 2025 calendar year will be collected early in 2026 and published later that year.