Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many applications have been received for funding from the Selective Schools Expansion Fund; and from whom such applications have been received.

Schools and local authorities can apply to the Selective Schools Expansion Fund until noon on 19 July 2018. The Department will not disclose the number of Selective Schools Expansion Fund applications that have been received until then. The application deadlines are set out in the guidance below: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/706313/SSEF_How_to_Apply_Guidance_2018-2019.odt.