Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what information her Department holds on the level of (a) demand and (b) supply for Year 7 places in the (i) Salford - South, (ii) Trafford - Sale, (iii) Manchester - South and (iv) Stockport - East & South Planning Areas in September 2025.

Information on the latest school place planning estimates are published at year group and planning area level in the annual School Capacity statistics publication, which is available here: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-capacity.

The information requested can be accessed at: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-catalogue/data-set/b12c3f30-c22c-4b88-b5b2-2c1848981b4e. The data includes local authority pupil forecasts (demand), estimated future capacity (supply), and an estimated number of additional places needed or surplus places. These estimates reflect the position reported by local authorities as at May 2023 through the School Capacity survey, supplemented with the department’s internal data on central programmes which will add or remove school places.