Faith Schools

(asked on 30th January 2017) - View Source

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.


Answered by
Caroline Dinenage Portrait
Caroline Dinenage
This question was answered on 6th February 2017

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

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