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Special Educational Needs

My hon. Friend touches on the point made by my hon. Friend the Member for Northampton, South (Mr. Binley) about resources. Does he recognise what I am seeing across my constituency and what I think is happening in other London boroughs, which is a change in the number of statements given—a restriction on statements? That is perhaps a way of controlling resources. It leads on to what my hon. Friend the Member for North-West Norfolk (Mr. Bellingham) said, which is that a number of people experience the problem that they need to go to a tribunal because of a lack of flexibility in the statement, particularly if they want to keep their children within the inclusiveness of the school, but they need to pull them down a year and the statement does not allow that.