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PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Primary Education: Wallasey (12 September 2018)

Question Asked

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many primary schools in Wallasey constituency were full or oversubscribed in the school years commencing in (a) 2016, (b) 2017 and (c) 2018.

Asked by:
Dame Angela Eagle (Labour)

Answer

The Department collects information from each local authority on the number of school places through the annual school capacity survey. The Department does not collect school capacity information at parliamentary constituency level. Data relating to the position in the 2017/18 academic year is currently being collected and quality assured. The latest published data held relates to the position in the 2016/17 academic year and can be found at: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/school-capacity-academic-year-2016-to-2017.

As of 1 May 2017 (2016/17 academic year), Wirral Local Authority had 27 primary schools that were full or had one or more pupils in excess of capacity, out of a total of 90 primary schools. Additional figures for the 2015/16 and 2014/15 academic years can be found in the table below:

Primary schools in Wirral

Academic Year

Number of primary
schools

Number of primary schools
that are full or have one or
more pupils in excess of
school capacity

2016/17

90

27

2015/16

90

25

2014/15

90

24


Source: School Capacity survey


Answered by:
Nick Gibb (Conservative)
11 October 2018

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