Question to the Department for Education:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what proportion of secondary and primary schools currently experience a shortage of capacity in regard to school places; and how many schools have been extended or expanded to deal with a shortage of capacity since May 2010.
The Department for Education collects information from each local authority on the number of available school places in state-funded primary and secondary schools (excluding special schools) through an annual survey. The most recent publication relates to the position at May 2013 and is published online at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/school-capacity-academic-year-2012-to-2013
The corresponding statistics for May 2010 are published online at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/school-capacity-academic-year-2010-to-2011
We do not hold a central record of the number of schools that have been extended or expanded to deal with a shortage of capacity and we could only provide this information at a disproportionate cost.