Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many (a) primary and (b) secondary school places were available in Gedling in the last 12 months; and if he will make a statement.

The Department collects information from each local authority on the number of schools and the number of places in those schools 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 2017/2018 academic year is currently being collected and quality assured.

As of 1 May 2017, in the Nottinghamshire county council area, the total number of unfilled primary places was 5,223 and the total number of unfilled secondary places was 10,836. The total number of primary school places available in Nottinghamshire was 69,297 and the total number of secondary places available was 57,080.

The capacity data are published on an annual basis, giving equivalent local authority and regional totals, through the SCAP tables. Further information is available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/school-capacity-academic-year-2016-to-2017. Funding is provided for every place local authorites inform us they need to create. Nottinghamshire received £66.2 million to provide new school places from 2011-2018, and has been allocated a further £19.8 million from 2018-2021.