A question on #Schools #Admissions tabled by Blake Stephenson on 23-01-2025 has been answered by Stephen Morgan.

Heading: Schools: Admissions
Question ID: 1758250
UIN: 26151
House: Commons
Date tabled: 2025-01-23
Asking Member ID: 5100
Asking Member display name: Blake Stephenson
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Asking Member Twitter reference: Blake Stephenson
Member interest: false
Question text: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to ensure there are sufficient school places to match trends in the level of housing growth.
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Date answered: 2025-01-31
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Is correcting answer: false
Answering Member ID: 4653
Answering Member display name: Stephen Morgan
Answering Member handle: stephenmorganmp
Answering Member Twitter reference: @stephenmorganmp
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Answer text: Local authorities are responsible for providing enough school places for children in their area. We provide capital funding through the Basic Need grant to support local authorities to provide mainstream school places, based on their own pupil forecasts a...
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Answering body ID: 60
Answering body name: Department for Education
Tweeted: true