Asked by: Karen Buck (Labour - Westminster North)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will rank primary schools in each London borough by the proportion of pupils who have English as an additional language; and what type each such school is.
Answered by Sam Gyimah
Information on the number and proportion of number of pupils whose first language is known or believed to be other than English is available in the underlying data of the schools, pupils and their characteristics: January 2015 statistics[1]. This data also contains information on the type and location of each school and it can be used to rank the schools.
[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/schools-pupils-and-their-characteristics-january-2015 - click on Underlying Data, open file ‘SFR16_2015_Schools_Pupils’ and the information on English as an additional language is in column GB.
Asked by: Karen Buck (Labour - Westminster North)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will rank primary schools in each London borough by the actual percentage change in the number of children known to be eligible for and claiming free school meals in (a) 2010 and (b) 2015; and what type each such school is.
Answered by Sam Gyimah
Information about the number and percentage of pupils eligible for free school meals and claiming them in each school in London can be found in the underlying data of the Schools, Pupils and their Characteristics statistics for 2010[1] and 2015[2] respectively. These data contain information about the type and phase of school and in which local authority they are located. Change in free school meal eligibility rates for schools can be calculated and ranked from this information.
[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/schools-pupils-and-their-characteristics-january-2010 - click on underlying data and see columns EH and EI for free school meal data.
[2] https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/schools-pupils-and-their-characteristics-january-2015 - click on underlying data, open the ‘SFR16_2015_Schools_Pupils’ file and the free school meal data is in columns EC and ED.
Asked by: Karen Buck (Labour - Westminster North)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will rank each English local authority by the number of (a) primary and (b) secondary free schools to have received approval; and what this represents as a proportion of the estimated school-age population.
Answered by Edward Timpson
The published list of successful applications to open a free school and of free schools already opened or in the pre-opening stage, which includes which local authority they are in, is available at:
The total number of places in these schools when at full capacity will be around 2% of the total number of children currently educated in state-funded schools in England.
The number of places in approved free schools is published online at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/successful-free-school-proposals-announced
The total school population is published in the ‘schools, pupils and their characteristics' statistical first release and is available at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/schools-pupils-and-their-characteristics-january-2013