Question follow-through · 120253
Children: Dyslexia
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what data her Department requires local authorities to collect in relation to the numbers of children with dyslexia in education in their area.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 11 Mar 2026
- Target answer date
- 16 Mar 2026
- Answer
- 8 Apr 2026 · 28 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
11 Mar 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what data her Department requires local authorities to collect in relation to the numbers of children with dyslexia in education in their area.
16 Mar 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
8 Apr 2026
Answer published
Information on the numbers of children with dyslexia is not collected separately by the department. Dyslexia is included within the wider special educational need type of ‘Specific learning difficulties’ (SpLD).All the information held by the department r...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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