§ Ms BuckTo ask the Deputy Prime Minister what plans his Department has to take into account levels of pupil mobility between schools when measuring education, skills and training deprivation in revised indices of deprivation. [143571]
§ Yvette CooperDuring the initial phase of work to update the Indices of Deprivation 2000 (ID 2000), the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister considered the issue of pupil mobility and investigated various avenues for constructing such an indicator. This investigation showed that, at present, there is no centrally held database on pupil mobility. As one of the criteria for inclusion of an indicator in the ID 2000 is that it must be nationally available at a small area level, we were unable to pursue this issue in the current update.