Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will meet with Auditory Verbal UK to discuss funding for early intervention programmes for deaf children.

The department is firmly committed to ensuring that children with special education needs and disabilities, including those who are deaf, receive the support they need to succeed in their early years, at school, and at college.

The Secretary of State for Education has received an invitation to meet with Auditory Verbal UK and will reply in due course.