Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, which schools in Birkenhead have expanded their intake without undertaking a public consultation in the last five years.

The information requested is not held centrally. The Department does not collect information relating to the published admissions numbers of individual schools.

All school admission authorities must set a published admissions number (PAN). This is the number of pupils the school will admit at their normal point of entry, for example, to the reception year of a primary school.

Admission authorities are not required to consult before increasing their PAN. They must, however, notify the local authority of any intention to do so.