Question follow-through · 1635
Further Education: Boarding Schools
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many students are required by geographic circumstances to board at night to receive post-16 education by local authority area.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 25 Jul 2024
- Target answer date
- 29 Jul 2024
- Answer
- 1 Aug 2024 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
25 Jul 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many students are required by geographic circumstances to board at night to receive post-16 education by local authority area.
29 Jul 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
1 Aug 2024
Answer published
Information on the reason pupils board overnight at school is not held centrally by the department.Information on the number of pupils who board is published in the ‘Schools, pupils and their characteristics’ publication, which is available here: https://...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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