Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the number of additional (a) school places and (b) teachers and teaching assistants that will be required in (i) Tottenham constituency, (ii) the Borough of Haringey and (iii) Greater London between 2017 and 2020.

Local authorities are responsible for ensuring there are sufficient school places for pupils. The Department collects pupil forecasts and school capacities from each local authority through the annual school capacity survey (SCAP). This data is used to allocate capital funding to local authorities to help them provide sufficient school places where they are needed. The Department’s Pupil Place Planning team then work with the Local Authorities to determine that those places are in fact being created.

The capacity and forecasts data are published on an annual basis, giving local authority and regional totals, through the SCAP tables which can be found at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/school-capacity-academic-year-2014-to-2015. School capacity and forecast data is not collected at a constituency level.

The Department also publishes school place scorecards to show the challenges that local authorities are facing, together with the progress that they are making in providing sufficient good quality school places. The latest published scorecards, forecasting demand to 2017-18, can be found at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/local-authority-school-places-scorecards-2015.

The school place scorecards show that between 2009/10 and 2014/15, in Haringey, 2,416 primary school places and 494 secondary places were created. 450 further primary school places are planned for delivery between 2015/16 and 2017/18. The Department has estimated that Haringey needs an additional 60 primary places to meet demand in 2017/18.

Over the same period, across all London local authorities, 135,000 primary places have been created, with 57,000 places planned for delivery, and an estimated 10,200 places needed to meet demand in 2017/18. In secondary, 67,000 places have been created, with 21,000 planned for delivery and an estimated 1,400 places needed to meet demand.

The requested information on the number of teachers and teaching assistants that will be required in the Tottenham constituency, the Borough of Haringey, and Greater London is not available.

The Department for Education uses the Teacher Supply Model (TSM) to estimate the national requirements for the number of postgraduate Initial Teacher Training places (and as part of this process, the number of qualified teachers) to meet demand. Decisions around the specific requirements for teachers and teaching assistants in individual schools are the responsibility of schools.

The 2016/17 version of the TSM, which was used to inform the 2016/17 ITT recruitment process, along with a user guide explaining the methodology in detail, is available at the following link: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/teacher-supply-model.