Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department is collecting data on trends in the number of in-year school applications in each local authority area.

The department does not collect data on the number of in-year school admission applications received in each local authority area.

Admission authorities must notify their local authority of all in-year applications they receive and their outcomes.

Local authorities are not required to co-ordinate the in-year admissions process for schools in their area for which they are not the admission authority, although some local authorities choose to do so. In areas where the local authority does not co-ordinate in-year admissions, schools which are their own admission authority manage their own in-year admissions processes and parents must submit their applications directly to the admission authorities of the schools they wish to apply.