Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of pupils in (a) Ashfield constituency, (b) Mansfield and (c) England reached expected Key Stage 2 levels in (i) reading, (ii) writing, (iii) spelling, punctuation and grammar and (iv) mathematics in the 2016-17 academic year.

The Department will be publishing its revised National curriculum assessments: key stage 2, 2017 Statistical First Release (SFR)¹ in December 2017. This publication will include the requested figures for pupils in (a) Ashfield constituency and (b) Mansfield in the additional tables. The percentage of pupils nationally who reached the expected levels, in 2016/17², were (i) 71% for reading, (ii) 76% for writing³, (iii) 77% for spelling, punctuation and grammar and (iv) 75% for mathematics.

1. The publication will be found at this link: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-key-stage-2
2. Found at: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/national-curriculum-assessments-key-stage-2-2017-provisional - this is provisional, not final data
3. Writing is based on teacher assessment, not standardised assessment