Schools: Admissions

(asked on 9th March 2016) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the number of additional places needed in (a) primary and (b) secondary education in England as a result of immigration from (i) EU and (ii) non-EU member states in each of the next five years; and what estimate she has made of the cost of providing such places.


Answered by
Edward Timpson Portrait
Edward Timpson
This question was answered on 17th March 2016

Supporting local authorities in their responsibility to ensure sufficient school places remains one of this Government’s top priorities. The basic need capital funding we allocate to local authorities to create new school places is based on their own data on school capacity and future pupil forecasts. Any increase in need for places should be reflected in the local authority’s final basic need allocation.

The Government has committed to investing £7 billion in new school places up to 2021, which, when added to our investment in the free schools programme, will help to create 600,000 new places.

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