Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many vacant state secondary school places there were in (a) Lincolnshire County Council and (b) South Holland and The Deepings constituency on 6 September 2024.

The department does not hold data on places vacant on 6 September 2024.

Information on unfilled state secondary school places, as at May 2023, is published in the School Capacity statistics publication here: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-capacity.

For ease, local authority level information within the publication for Lincolnshire local authority can be accessed here: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink/62411dcf-5a26-4262-e175-08dccd7b577b.

School level information is available here: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-catalogue/data-set/5f26c269-bf72-41ab-8292-e17b58ed7c98. This information can be aggregated to borough and parliamentary constituency level by linking to here: https://get-information-schools.service.gov.uk/.

In summary, for South Holland and The Deepings parliamentary constituency, there were 605 unfilled secondary school places (8%) in May 2023.