Question follow-through · 13087
Class Sizes
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what data his Department holds on the average class size at (a) primary and (b) secondary schools in (i) Great Yarmouth constituency and (ii) England in each of the last twenty years.
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 6 Nov 2024
- Target answer date
- 11 Nov 2024
- Answer
- 14 Nov 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
6 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what data his Department holds on the average class size at (a) primary and (b) secondary schools in (i) Great Yarmouth constituency and (ii) England in each of the last twenty years.
11 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
14 Nov 2024
Answer published
The department holds data on average class sizes in the ‘Schools, pupils and their characteristics’ publication, which is available here: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-pupils-and-their-characteristics. This pub...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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