Question follow-through · 62584
Schools: Admissions
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, on what date her Department first published a projection of the number of (a) Primary and (b) Secondary school places that would be needed in September 2024.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 25 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 30 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 4 Jul 2025 · 9 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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Recorded timeline
25 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, on what date her Department first published a projection of the number of (a) Primary and (b) Secondary school places that would be needed in September 2024.
30 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
4 Jul 2025
Answer published
Estimates of the primary places needed to meet predicted demand for places in September 2024 were first published on 24 March 2022.Estimates of the secondary places needed to meet predicted demand for places in September 2024 were first published on 28...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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