| Heading: |
Private Education |
| Question ID: |
1815377 |
| UIN: |
61751 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-06-23 |
| Asking Member ID: |
3969 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Damian Hinds
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
Damian Hinds
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether the fall in the number of children at independent schools was in line with her Department’s projections. |
| Is named day: |
false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-07-03 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4653 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Stephen Morgan
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| Answering Member handle: |
stephenmorganmp
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@stephenmorganmp
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| Answer text: |
Pupil numbers remain firmly within expectations and higher than 2021/22. As a percentage of the overall school population, private school pupils have remained the same, at 6.5%. It has been between 6% and 7% for the last two decades. |
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| Answering body ID: |
60 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Education |
| Tweeted: |
true |