Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent estimate he has made of the number of children in England starting primary school in September 2014 who have received a place at their first choice school.

Data on the proportion of children made an offer of their first choice school for England has recently been published as part of the Statistical First Release ‘Secondary and primary school applications and offers: 2014'. This is published online:

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-school-applications