Question to the Department for Education:

To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the remarks by Lord Agnew of Oulton on 29 March, of the 1.9 million additional children in a good or outstanding school since 2010, how many are being taught in (1) academies, (2) free schools, and (3) local authority maintained schools.

As of 31 August 2010, there were 4,855,336 children in good or outstanding schools. As of 31 December 2017, there were 6,714,920 children in good or outstanding schools. This represents an increase of 1,859,584 more children in good or outstanding schools since December 2010. The figures are derived from published Ofsted data but there is no breakdown available of the number of children in free schools in 2010, and therefore there are no data available to calculate the additional number of children for all three categories from 2010 to 2017.

Since 2010 around 1700 schools have left local authority control to become sponsored academies. The vast majority of these schools were providing an unsatisfactory or inadequate education at the time of transfer. This has left local authorities with a lower proportion of poor schools.

The attached table shows the breakdown of existing data for August 2010 and December 2017.