Schools: Admissions

(asked on 24th June 2014) - View Source

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.


Answered by
 Portrait
Lord Nash
This question was answered on 2nd July 2014

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.

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