Question follow-through · 83762
Special Educational Needs: Unemployment
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate her Department has made of the number of young people with education, health and care plans who are not in employment, education or training.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 21 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 23 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 29 Oct 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
21 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate her Department has made of the number of young people with education, health and care plans who are not in employment, education or training.
23 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
29 Oct 2025
Answer published
There are 165,000 16 to 25 year-olds with an education, health and care (EHC) plan. Of these, it is estimated that approximately 22,000 are not in education, employment or training (NEET).Published data for the reporting year 2025 shows that approximately...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Unemployment
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Student Wastage
22 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential implications for her policies of trends in the number of students who are at risk of being withdrawn from their study programme for not attending their GCSE retak
Further Education
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Physical Education: Obesity
20 Feb 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of changes to funding for physical education and sports on child obesity.
Financial Services: Adult Education
20 Feb 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans her Department has for improving provision of financial education as part of the adult education curriculum.
Written question 29937
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Written question 29938
15 Sept 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what criteria will be used to determine which children and young people will be eligible for an Education, Health and Care Plan under the proposed reformed SEND system.
Written question 29939
15 Sept 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what safeguards will be put in place for children and young people who, following a review at a transition point, move from an Education, Health and Care Plan to an Individual Support Plan.
Written question 29940
15 Sept 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the principal factors driving the increase in the number of Education, Health and Care Plans; and what proportion of the associated increase in expenditure she attribu
Written question 29941
15 Sept 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what her planned timetable is to introducing the Education for All Bill.