Question follow-through · 61751
Private Education
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.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 23 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 25 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 3 Jul 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
23 Jun 2025
Question tabled
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.
25 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
3 Jul 2025
Answer published
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.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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