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Special Educational Needs: Primary Education

Asked by Matt VickersConservativeDepartment for EducationTabled Answered 23 October 2025UIN 81381

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of primary school pupils have Education, Health and Care Plans in (a) Stockton West constituency and (b) England.

Answered by Georgia Gould

Information on pupils in schools who have education, health and care (EHC) plans is published as part of the statistical release ‘Special educational needs in England’, which can be found at: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/special-educational-needs-in-england/2024-25.

An extract showing the requested information for primary and secondary schools in England and Stockton West constituency is shown below:

Number of pupils with an EHC plan

Percentage of pupils with an EHC plan

England

State funded Primary schools

157,716

3.5%

State funded secondary schools

113,452

3.1%

Stockton West Constituency

State funded Primary schools

244

2.7%

State funded secondary schools

310

3.1%

1. Source: School Census

Information on the number of young people with an EHC plan who attend further education colleges within the Stockton West constituency, and for England, is not currently available.

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