Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many variations of Published Admission Numbers submitted by local authorities have been disallowed by the school adjudicator in each of the last three years.
In each of the past three reporting years, the following number of variation requests in relation to Published Admissions Numbers (PAN) were submitted by local authorities, but were not approved by the Schools Adjudicator:
Variation to PANs | 2018/19* | 2017/18 | 2016/17 |
Number of variation requests made by local authorities | 50 | 37 | 24 |
Variation requests not approved | 8 | 1 | 3 |
* This reporting year ends on 31 August 2019