Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate her Department has made of the number of faith schools that were opened in 2015; and where each of those schools are situated.
In the 2015 calendar year, 14 new state-funded mainstream schools opened in England. The table below gives a breakdown of this number by local authority.
Local Authority | Total faith schools opened in 2015 calendar year |
Birmingham | 2 |
Plymouth | 1 |
Hillingdon | 1 |
Hounslow | 1 |
Norfolk | 1 |
Staffordshire | 1 |
Kingston upon Thames | 1 |
Manchester | 1 |
Slough | 1 |
Lancashire | 1 |
Stockton-on-Tees | 1 |
Derby | 1 |
Buckinghamshire | 1 |
England Total | 14 |
Source Edubase