Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of (a) trends in the take-up of academy places and (b) the performance of academies in Calderdale in the last five years.

The number of pupils on roll in academies in Calderdale from January 2012 to January 2016 is available from the underlying data set accompanying each year’s statistical release “Schools, pupils and their characteristics”, which are published on the department’s website at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-school-and-pupil-numbers

The performance of schools including academies in Calderdale is also published and can be found here:

https://www.compare-school-performance.service.gov.uk/?laname=Calderdale&la=&searchtype=search-by-la

Data for key stage 4 for years before 2014 are not comparable due to reforms to qualifications, notably the removal of many previous equivalent vocational qualifications and counting only the first attempt at a qualification in the performance tables in English Baccalaureate subjects.