§ Miss KirkbrideTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many children in(a) Bromsgrove, (b) Wyre Forest, (c) Redditch, (d) Worcester and (e) Worcestershire failed to get into the school of their first choice in each year since 1997; and how many of those subsequently appealed in each of those years. [184711]
§ Mr. MilibandInformation on the number of pupils admitted to their first choice school is not collected centrally.
Admission appeal data are not available at parliamentary constituency level. A table giving admission appeal information for all local education authority areas has been placed in the House of Commons Libraries. (I refer the hon. Member to the answer I have given to my hon. Friend the Member for Bury, North (Mr. Chaytor), on 23 June 2004, Official Report, column 1430W). Final figures from 1997/98 to 2001/02 have been provided. Further details on the latest 2002/03 (provisional) figures on admission appeals by local education authority can be found on http://www.dfes.gov.uk/rsgateway/DB/SFR/s000470/index.shtml.