Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what data his Department collects on the proportion of deaf young people who have completed A-levels.

A record proportion of deaf young people are completing an A-level or level 3 equivalent. Information on the attainment of students with and without special educational needs (SEN) who have completed an A level is available, but this information cannot be broken down further by type of need.

However, the department does publish figures on level 3 attainment (i.e. achievement of 2 or more A levels or an equivalent sized vocational qualification) by the age of 19 and this includes figures on the primary type of SEN, including the category ‘Hearing Impairment’. The table below contains further details of this:

Percentage of pupils with SEN, who have a hearing impairment¹, qualified to level 3² by the age of 19

1. As identified in year 11
2. 2 or more A levels or an equivalent-sized vocational qualification