Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent estimate she has made of the number of special free schools that have opened in each year since 1 January 2015; and if she will provide a breakdown of those figures by phase.

The department publishes information about open free schools, including the date they opened. This is available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/open-academies-and-academy-projects-in-development.

There are 108 open special free schools, 97 of which opened since 1 January 2015. The attached table provides the number of special free schools opened in each year since 2015, including a breakdown of these by phase.