Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many additional school places have been created in (a) North Swindon constituency and (b) Swindon Borough Council in each year since 2010.

The Department collects information from each local authority on the number of school places through the annual school capacity survey (SCAP). The Department does not collect school capacity information at parliamentary constituency level.

Data relating to the position at May 2017 (for the 2016/17 academic year) is available at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/school-capacity-academic-year-2016-to-2017.

Since 2010 an additional 5,929 school places have been created in the Swindon local authority area. The year on year increase is shown in the attached table.