Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will introduce changes to national schools admissions to ensure that multiple birth children are able to attend the same school.

In order to avoid children of multiple births attending separate schools, the statutory School Admissions Code enables them to be admitted as exceptions to the infant class size limit of 30 pupils per teacher.

Some school admission authorities will exceed their published admission number to avoid separating multiple birth siblings.

We are currently reviewing the Admissions Code, with a view to ensuring siblings can attend the same school. We will consider this issue as part of that review.