§ Mr. HobanTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if he will list for each local education authority the(a) number and (b) proportion of children resident in that authority area attending independent schools. [141257]
§ Mr. Miliband[holding answer 2 December 2003]The number of pupils resident in an authority is only available for pupils attending maintained primary, secondary and all special schools as well as city technology colleges and academies as at January 2003.
The best available information has been placed in the House of Commons Library and shows (a) the number of pupils attending independent schools that are located in the local education authority (LEA) and (b) these pupils expressed as a percentage of all pupils attending schools within the same LEA. These figures therefore refer to the pupils in such schools irrespective of the pupils' normal place of residence.