Schools: Admissions

(asked on 5th June 2019) - View Source

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.


Answered by
Nick Gibb Portrait
Nick Gibb
This question was answered on 14th June 2019

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

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