Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many secondary schools in Coventry South constituency were full or oversubscribed in the school years commencing in (a) 2016 and (b) 2017.

The department collects information from each local council on the number of schools, the number of places in those schools and the number of pupils on roll through the annual school capacity survey. The department does not collect school capacity information at parliamentary constituency level.

Data relating to the position in the 2016/17 academic year will be published in the new year. Data for May 2016 (relating to academic year 2015/16) can be found at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/school-capacity-academic-year-2015-to-2016.

As at May 2016 (which relates to academic year 2015/16), four of 85 primary schools in Coventry were full or had at least one pupil in excess of capacity.

As at May 2016 (which relates to academic year 2015/16), two of 23 secondary schools in Coventry were full or had at least one pupil in excess of capacity.

The individual schools can be identified in the underlying data for each publication by comparing the capacity of the school with the number on roll.

The department does not have a measure for over-subscription. The admissions and offers process is run by the local councils who are responsible for ensuring that the admissions criteria are applied for all schools.