Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of pupils are classified as of Asian ethnic origin at (a) state Catholic schools and (b) Church of England free schools and other Christian free schools.

The proportion of pupils classified as of Asian ethnic origin at (a) state Catholic schools and (b) Church of England free schools and other Christian free schools was 6.3% and 7.1% respectively in January 2016.

This information has been calculated from the underlying data of the ‘schools, pupils and their characteristics’ statistical release[1].

[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/schools-pupils-and-their-characteristics-january-2016