Question follow-through · 64359
Schools: Admissions
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.
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 1 Jul 2025
- Target answer date
- 7 Jul 2025
- Answer
- 7 Jul 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
1 Jul 2025
Question tabled
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.
7 Jul 2025
Target answer date
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7 Jul 2025
Answer published
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...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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