| Heading: |
Schools: Admissions |
| Question ID: |
1818533 |
| UIN: |
64359 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-07-01 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5302 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Noah Law
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| Asking Member handle: |
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
Noah Law
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will take steps with local authorities to that ensure travel distance is taken into account when (a) calculating school catchment zones and (b) offering school places. |
| Is named day: |
true |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-07-07 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4125 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Catherine McKinnell
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| Answering Member handle: |
CMcKinnellMP
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@CMcKinnellMP
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| Correcting Member ID: |
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| Answer text: |
Admission arrangements are set and applied locally by a school’s admission authority, which for academies is the academy trust and for maintained schools is either the governing body or the local authority.Admission authorities must determine the criteria... |
| Original answer text: |
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| Comparable answer text: |
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| Answering body ID: |
60 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Education |
| Tweeted: |
true |