Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many primary schools in Wallasey constituency were full or oversubscribed in the school years commencing in (a) 2016, (b) 2017 and (c) 2018.

The Department collects information from each local authority on the number of school places through the annual school capacity survey. The Department does not collect school capacity information at parliamentary constituency level. Data relating to the position in the 2017/18 academic year is currently being collected and quality assured. The latest published data held relates to the position in the 2016/17 academic year and can be found at: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/school-capacity-academic-year-2016-to-2017.

As of 1 May 2017 (2016/17 academic year), Wirral Local Authority had 27 primary schools that were full or had one or more pupils in excess of capacity, out of a total of 90 primary schools. Additional figures for the 2015/16 and 2014/15 academic years can be found in the table below:

Source: School Capacity survey