Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment his Department has made of levels of attainment inequality in secondary education across different local education authority areas of the UK.

The Department publishes attainment, in headline measures for state-funded schools, at the end of key stage 4 by local authority and region. The latest figures for 2017/18 are available in the attached table. Further local authority data, including for previous years, can be found here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-gcses-key-stage-4.