HC Deb 22 October 2003 vol 411 cc594-7W
Mr. Damian Green

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many(a) primary, (b) secondary and (c) both primary and secondary schools that select some or all of their pupils on the basis of faith have (i) opened and (ii) closed in each year since 1997, broken down by local education authority. [133684]

Mr. Miliband

The following tables show the number of primary and secondary maintained schools, designated as having a religious character, which have opened and closed in each year since 1997, listed by LEA

1997
Openings (i) Closures (ii)
Local education authority Primary (a) Secondary (b) Total (c) Primary (a) Secondary (b) Total (c)
Lincolnshire 0 0 0 1 0 1
Liverpool 1 0 1 0 0 0
Middlesbrough 0 0 0 1 0 1
Oxfordshire 0 0 0 2 0 2
Wiltshire 0 0 0 1 0 1
Total 1 0 1 5 0 5

1998
Openings (i) Closures (ii)
Local education authority Primary (a) (i) Secondary (b) Total (c) Primary (a) Secondary (b) Total (c)
Birmingham 0 0 0 0 1 1
Camden 0 0 0 0 1 1
Essex 0 0 0 I 0 1
Hampshire 0 0 0 1 0 1
Harrow 1 0 1 0 0 0
Kent 0 0 0 0 1 1
Liverpool 0 0 0 1 0 1
Manchester 0 0 0 1 0 1
Salford 0 0 0 1 0 1
Wigan 0 0 0 1 0 1
Total 1 0 1 6 3 9

1999
Openings (i) Closures (ii)
Local education authority Primary (a) Secondary (b) Total (c) Primary (a) Secondary (b) Total (c)
Bradford 0 0 0 1 0 1
Cambridgeshire 1 0 1 0 0 0
Cumbria 0 0 0 1 0 1
Hertfordshire 1 0 I 0 0 0
Lancashire 0 0 0 2 0 2
Manchester 0 0 0 1 0 1
Medway 1 0 1 0 0 0
Redbridge 1 0 1 0 0 0
South Gloucestershire 1 0 1 0 0 0
St. Helens 0 0 0 1 0 1
Sunderland 0 0 0 1 0 1
Total 5 0 5 7 0 7

2000
Openings (i) Closures (ii)
Local education authority Primary (a) Secondary (b) Total (c) Primary (a) Secondary (b) Total (c)
Croydon 1 0 1 0 0 0
Lancashire 0 0 0 2 0 2
Leicestershire 0 0 0 1 0 1
North Yorkshire 1 0 1 0 0 0
Stockton-on-Tees 1 0 1 0 0 0
Suffolk 0 0 0 1 0 1
Windsor and Maidenhead 0 0 0 0 1 1
Total 3 0 3 4 1 5

area. These schools are permitted to give priority to pupils of their faith or denomination, if over subscribed, but the Department does not maintain records of those that do so.

2001
Openings (i) Closures (ii)
Local education authority Primary (a) Secondary (b) Total (c) Primary (a) Secondary (b) Total (c)
Birmingham 0 1 1 0 0 0
Bradford 0 1 1 0 0 0
Dorset 1 0 1 0 0 0
East Sussex 1 0 1 0 0 0
Manchester 0 0 0 1 0 1
Nottinghamshire 1 0 1 0 0 0
Surrey 0 1 1 0 0 0
Tower Hamlets 0 1 1 0 0 0
West Sussex 1 0 1 0 0 0
Total 4 4 8 1 0 1

2002
Openings (i) Closures (ii)
Local education authority Primary (a) Secondary (b) Total (c) Primary (a) Secondary (b) Total (c)
Birmingham 0 0 0 0 1 1
Herefordshire 0 0 0 1 0 1
Knowsley 0 0 0 1 0 1
Middlesbrough 0 0 0 1 1 2
Oxfordshire 1 0 1 0 0 0
Shropshire 0 0 0 1 0 1
St Helens 0 0 0 1 0 1
Sunderland 0 1 1 0 0 0
Tower Hamlets 0 0 0 1 0 1
Warrington 0 0 0 1 0 1
Wirral 0 0 0 0 1 1
Total 1 1 2 7 3 10

2003
Openings (i) Closures (ii)
Local education authority Primary (a) Secondary (b) Total (c) Primary (a) Secondary (b) Total (c)
Bury 0 0 0 2 0 2
Bedfordshire 0 0 0 1 0 1
Hertfordshire 0 0 0 1 0 1
Northamptonshire 0 0 0 1 0 1
Northumberland 0 0 0 1 0 1
Stockton-on-Tees 1 1 2 0 0 0
Stoke-on-Trent 0 0 0 1 0 1
Wandsworth 0 1 1 0 0 0
Worcestershire 0 0 0 1 0 1
Total1 1 2 3 8 0 8
1To 13 October 2003

The tables exclude schools that opened or closed as a result of amalgamations, mergers or reorganisations, and also former community schools that closed and re-opened with a religious character.

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