Question follow-through · 107851
Health Services: Special Educational Needs
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many children attending residential special schools have received an eyesight, hearing and dental check since April 2025.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 22 Jan 2026
- Target answer date
- 26 Jan 2026
- Answer
- 3 Feb 2026 · 12 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
22 Jan 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many children attending residential special schools have received an eyesight, hearing and dental check since April 2025.
26 Jan 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
3 Feb 2026
Answer published
Between 1 April 2025 and 23 January 2026, 11,485 sight tests have been conducted within a special educational setting. Data for the number of hearing and dental checks conducted is not held centrally.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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