Written Question·Department for Education·UIN 26762

Schools: Shrewsbury

Tabled: 27 January 2025
Answered: 4 February 2025

Question

Julia Buckley

LabourShrewsbury

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the adequacy of provision of secondary school places in areas of high population density in Shrewsbury constituency.

Answer

Catherine McKinnell
The statutory duty to provide sufficient school places sits with local authorities. The department provides capital funding through the basic need grant to support local authorities to provide school places, based on their own pupil forecasts and school c...

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