Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many pupils were being educated in the state sector in (a) Harborough constituency, (b) Leicestershire, (c) Leicester and (d) England in each financial year since 2010-11; and what estimate he has made of the number of pupils there will be in each of these areas in (a) 2018-19 and (b) 2019-20.

Information on schools and pupils is published at the annual ‘Schools, pupils and their characteristics’ statistical release: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/schools-pupils-and-their-characteristics-january-2017.

Data is not summarised by parliamentary constituency, but data for each school is available in the Underlying data: SFR28/2017 of the annual ‘Schools, pupils and their characteristics’ statistical release, contained in file ‘SFR28_2017_Schools_Pupils_UD’. The figures can be filtered by school phase (column N), parliamentary constituency (column V). The headcount of pupils can be found in column DW.

The number of pupils being educated in the state sector in England in each year since 2010-11 can be found in Table 2a in the National tables: SFR28/2017.

Information for earlier years (from 2010 onwards) can be found at: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-school-and-pupil-numbers.

Forecasts of pupil numbers at local authority level (LA) can be found at: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/school-capacity-academic-year-2016-to-2017

Tables A5 (primary) and A6 (secondary) of the main tables give the LA forecasted pupil numbers. Forecasts are not produced at constituency level.