Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many primary schools in (a) Ashfield and (b) Mansfield constituencies were full or oversubscribed in the school years commencing in (i) 2016 and (ii) 2017.

The Department collects information from each local authority on the number of schools, the number of places in those schools and the number of pupils on roll through the annual school capacity survey (SCAP). The Department does not collect school capacity information at parliamentary constituency level.

Data relating to the position in the 2016/17 academic year will be published in the new year. Data for May 2016 (relating to academic year 2015/16) can be found at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/school-capacity-academic-year-2015-to-2016.

As at May 2016 (which relates to academic year 2015/16), 63 of 281 primary schools in Nottinghamshire were full or had at least one pupil in excess of capacity.

As at May 2016 (which relates to academic year 2015/16), 5 of 46 secondary schools in Nottinghamshire were full or had at least one pupil in excess of capacity.

The individual schools can be identified in the underlying data for each publication by comparing the capacity of the school with the number on roll.

The Department does not have a measure for over-subscription. The admissions and offers process is run by the local authorities who are responsible for ensuring that the admissions criteria are applied for all schools.