Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what information her Department holds on the number of students aged between 11 and 18 who are studying in fee-paying schools in Northern Ireland.

Figures on the number of pupils in independent schools in England are collected annually in the statutory school-level annual school census (SLASC). Figures from January 2017 by single year of age can be found in national table 1c of the statistical release ‘Schools, Pupils and their Characteristics’ available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-school-and-pupil-numbers.

As education is a devolved matter, statistics on schools are published separately by the four administrations. Therefore, figures on the number of pupils in independent schools in Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales should be requested directly from the individual administrations.