Schools: Admissions

(asked on 5th July 2016) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the ability of schools to meet demand in each of the next 10 years; and if she will make a statement.


Answered by
Edward Timpson Portrait
Edward Timpson
This question was answered on 11th July 2016

Local authorities are responsible for ensuring that there are sufficient school places to meet that need, and for determining precisely how many new places are needed in their area.

Supporting local authorities to create additional school places is one of the Government’s top priorities. We allocate funding for new school places to local authorities three years in advance, in order to balance the need for robust forecasts with the need to ensure certainty for local authorities over their future funding allocations. We have committed to spending £7 billion on school places up to 2021, which along with our investment in the free schools programme we expect to deliver 600,000 new places. This is in addition to the £5 billion allocated by the Coalition Government between 2011 and 2015. Further information on basic need allocations can be found on GOV.UK at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/basic-need-allocations

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