Question follow-through · 15564
Ophthalmic Services: Special Educational Needs
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many children are in receipt of the NHS Special Schools Eye Care Service.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 21 Nov 2024
- Target answer date
- 25 Nov 2024
- Answer
- 3 Dec 2024 · 12 calendar days after tabling
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- Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading · 11 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
21 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many children are in receipt of the NHS Special Schools Eye Care Service.
25 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
3 Dec 2024
Answer published
NHS England have piloted sight testing and the dispensing of glasses in special schools since 2021. Between April 2021 and August 2024 a total of 23,832 sight tests were provided.There were a total of 9,909 pairs of glasses issued between April 2021 and A...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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