Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask His Majesty's Government what proportion of appeals against education, health and care plan decisions were successful in each of the last five years.

The data has been taken from the local management information system with financial year set as April to March. Although care is taken when processing and analysing the data, the details are subject to inaccuracies inherent in any large-scale case management system and is the best data that are available. For this reason, the appeals shown in the above table may not match published totals. Data does not include refusals to make a plan, as that is the step before deciding the content of a plan.