PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Pupils: Newark (3 November 2015)

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many secondary school aged pupils living in the Newark area travel out of that area to attend secondary schools in (a) Tuxford, (b) Southwell, (c) Bingham, (d) Nottingham and (e) Lincolnshire.

Asked by:
Robert Jenrick (Conservative)

The Department for Education publishes figures for the number of pupils who attend school in a local authority separate to that in which they reside. This information can be found at GOV.UK[1].

The department does not, however, hold data on the movements of pupils between areas smaller than local authorities.

Movements of pupils are a factor when considering the availability of school places.

[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/schools-pupils-and-their-characteristics-january-2015 - the cross border movement matrix tables have figures for each combination of home and school local authority.

Answered by:
Nick Gibb (Conservative)
6 November 2015