Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of new primary schools that received permission to be built since June 2017 (a) included and (b) did not include plans to build a nursery.

11 of the 21 (52 per cent) mainstream primary and all-through schools that have opened since June 2017 have nursery provision. 10 of the 21 (48 per cent) schools opened without nursery provision.

The government has not approved any new school proposals since June 2017. The most recent new school approvals were made in April 2017 when 29 of the 45 (64 per cent) mainstream primary and all-through schools approved included proposals for nursery provision. We will next invite proposals for new schools in early 2018.