Question to the Department for Education:

To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the prevalence of dyscalculia; and how many school-age children receive a formal diagnosis of dyscalculia each year.

The information requested is not held centrally.

The department collects information on the special educational needs (SEN) of pupils in schools and the SEN of children and young people with an education, health and care (EHC) plan. Both of these data collections use the following categories:

• Specific learning difficulty.
• Moderate learning difficulty.
• Severe learning difficulty.
• Profound and multiple learning difficulty.
• Social, emotional and mental health.
• Speech, language and communication needs.
• Hearing impairment.
• Vision impairment.
• Multi-sensory impairment.
• Physical disability.
• Autistic spectrum disorder.
• Down syndrome.
• Other difficulty/disability.

Dyscalculia cannot be identified separately in the collected data.

Information on the SEN of pupils is published in the department’s ‘Special educational needs in England’ publication, which can be found here: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/special-educational-needs-in-england.

Information on EHC plans maintained by local authorities is published in the department’s ‘Education, health and care plans’ publication, which can be found here: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/education-health-and-care-plans.