Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to his Department’s news story Drive to create more good school places for families published on 11 May 2018, what timetable his Department has set for Wave 13 of free school applications.

The department published the timetable for the mainstream Wave 13 application round on 11 May 2018 in the ‘How to apply to set up a mainstream free school’ guidance. The guidance is available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/free-school-application-guide.