Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an estimate of the (a) (i) capacity of and (ii) number of students aged 16-19 enrolled in state-funded (A) sixth forms and (B) colleges and (b) number of students aged 16-19 enrolled in independent schools, broken down by local authority in the latest period for which data is available.

The capacity of state-funded school sixth forms and the number of students on roll in these sixth forms, as at May 2023, is published in the annual school capacity official statistics publication, which is available here: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-capacity and https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/fast-track/cfb70ec9-6e0a-4405-befa-08dc3901786a.

Information on the number of students aged 16-19 enrolled in independent schools, broken down by local authority, is published in the June ‘Schools, pupils and their characteristics’ report. This can be found here: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink/9b2df1d1-0559-463c-531c-08dca71310d3

Information on further education colleges and sixth form colleges is not available in the format requested.