Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many applications for education, health and care plans were (a) made, (b) accepted and (c) refused in 2016.

The data requested for the 2016 calendar year will be published in the ‘Statements of SEN and EHC plans: England: 2017’ statistical first release on 25^th May 2017.

Comparable data for the 2015 calendar year can be found in Table 2 of the ‘Statements of SEN and EHC plans: England: 2016’ statistical first release: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/statements-of-sen-and-ehc-plans-england-2016