Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children in Key Stage 1 in (a) Ashfield constituency and (b) Nottinghamshire were taught in classes of more than (i) 30 or (ii) 35 in the academic year beginning September 2015.

Information about the number of pupils in Key Stage 1 classes with more than 30 pupils is available at school level in the underlying data of the ‘schools, pupils and their characteristics’ statistics.[1]

In January 2016 there were 93 pupils in infant classes of more than 30 in schools in Ashfield constituency, and none in classes of more than 35.

In Nottinghamshire local authority there were 975 pupils in infant classes of more than 30, and none in classes of more than 35.

[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/schools-pupils-and-their-characteristics-january-2016 - data is located in the ‘underlying data’ download within the file called ‘SFR20_2016_Schools_Classes_UD’